Automated video looping with progressive dynamism / Per-pixel smooth GIF looping

[Pardalis]

[video=youtube;drKmS-Czu44]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drKmS-Czu44[/video]
[QUOTE]Microsoft Research has released something rather interesting: a GIF-maker that analyses the patterns in a video and re-orders discrete sections of the frames to produce the best possible output.

Redmond has been showing off the software's capabilities for a few months now, with [URL="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/hoppe/proj/videoloops/"]this paper[/URL] and the video describing its features in detail. The software's now emerged from the labs to Redmond during SIGGRAPH 2013.

Microsoft says the software uses a technique called "Automated video looping with progressive dynamism". That translates into analysis of a video to isolate the many moving elements it contains. That analysis includes detection of regions that are moving quickly or slowly. Once the analysis has been done, optimization re-assembles those elements so that they move in a way Microsoft says results in a more natural five-second clip.

That can mean one pixel – but more likely a region of similarly-paced pixels - looping to its own rhythm independently of other loops in the same five-second video. That's a rather large departure from conventional animated GIFs, which uncritically cycle through however many frames they've been fed. [URL="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/25/microsoft_automated_video_looping_with_progressive _dynamism/"](source)[/URL][/QUOTE]
Try it out [URL="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/d02f3198-7896-45eb-89e8-5a75859b67c8/"]HERE[/URL], though people are reporting it doesn't work for some reason.

[alxnotorious]

Tumblr will literally explode with this technology.

[Alec W]

[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;42995619]Tumblr will literally explode with this technology.[/QUOTE]

Optimizing just go so much better [I]I can't even[/I]

[Glitchvid]

Isn't this stuff used on the Microsoft phones ?

[G-Strogg]

I genuinely thought they did this from static images at first and was completely amazed then I realised it was video.

[Freeee]

This is fucking fantastic :D

[SgtTupelo]

[QUOTE=glitchvid;42996302]Isn't this stuff used on the Microsoft phones ?[/QUOTE]

My Galaxy S4 also has something like this. You shoot a short video (I think it's 5 seconds too) then it loops it and you can paint what areas animate in the loop.

[Laferio]

This is pretty fucking crazy.

[Kuru]

With the progressivity order, why is it better to have the subtle movements come first rather than the bigger movements?

[JXZ]

[QUOTE=nerdster409;42997264]With the progressivity order, why is it better to have the subtle movements come first rather than the bigger movements?[/QUOTE]
so that it adds the movement more gradually and doesn't add one big looping thing at the beginning and another at the end