Using AI to animate historical photos

[Tidewater]

I have started to find videos someone has created using an historical photo and AI to animate the image.
The videos animate both the subjects within the frame and the camera itself, so the camera in some case pans or moves on tracks. This one is from Civil War photos.

This is kind of a cool use of the tech. Moving the camera requires AI to guess what the area not in the original photo will look like, but this is not too difficult in the scenes shown.
I have seen others from the First World War and Teddy Roosevelt as well.

 

[Tidewater]

Here's Teddy.

 

[Jack Bourbon]

I have started to find videos someone has created using an historical photo and AI to animate the image.
The videos animate both the subjects within the frame and the camera itself, so the camera in some case pans or moves on tracks. This one is from Civil War photos.

This is kind of a cool use of the tech. Moving the camera requires AI to guess what the area not in the original photo will look like, but this is not too difficult in the scenes shown.
I have seen others from the First World War and Teddy Roosevelt as well.

Looks delightful.

 

[AlistarWills]

I have seen these as well. Seems eerie at times.

 

[Tidewater]

Union and Confederate leaders.

 

[Tidewater]

Here is one from Operation Market-Garden, the Netherlands, 1944.

Kind of interesting. AI does some weird things with individuals in the deep background in certain shots and has some difficulty with open flames.

 

[Crimson1967]

I have seen these as well. Seems eerie at times.

Not a fan of the whole concept. Same with colorizing old photos. I have seen a picture of Lincoln at a battlefield in color. I’m not some film snob because I know that b/w is all they had but it just doesn’t look natural.

Animating the pictures just looks creepy.

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

I restore and sometimes colorize old family photos. I enjoy it and to me it gives the photos some life to add some color. We know that our ancestors lived in color and not BW. Not a huge fan of the animation but I've used it.