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Painting Many Pasts: Synthesizing Time Lapse Videos of Paintings

In this research project, we explore a new problem of synthesizing time lapse videos depicting the creation of paintings.

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Below, we use the tipiX interactive visualization tool for some time lapses. The first row shows real time lapses created by artists, the second row shows videos synthesized by the visual deprojection baseline, and the third row shows videos synthesized by our method. To use the tipiX tool, click on the image to pause/start the autoplay feature, and move your mouse from left to right to move through each time lapse.

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Paper

Painting Many Pasts: Synthesizing Time Lapse Videos of Paintings
Amy Zhao, Guha Balakrishnan, Kathleen M. Lewis, Fredo Durand, John Guttag, Adrian V. Dalca
To appear in CVPR 2020.

_{Repo name inspired by Magic: The Gathering.}