[sniklaus]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts!

* There definitely should be more variety in terms of camera paths. Our framework either supports fully automatic results (as shown) or ones with a manual camera path. For an automatically generated slideshow, one should probably add more variety.

* There is some great work in this area, commonly focusing on portrait images. But yes, once the scene geometry has been estimated sufficiently well, one can definitely add some nice out-of-focus effects.

* That would be an interesting research direction. I am not an expert in relighting, but I can imagine that this requires a lot of work to make sure that the scene composition looks believable.

[tomaskafka]

As for 2, Focos app has recently added the fake depth blur, and it is both absolutely impressive (oh my! It gets most of the image so right) and discernible (we are so sensitive about the visual that one wrongly estimated region - often a 'hole' like the ground between the legs - is enough to ruin the magic).

http://focos.me/