StyleCineGAN: Landscape Cinemagraph Generation using a Pre-trained StyleGAN

Jongwoo Choi, Kwanggyoon Seo, Amirsaman Ashtari, Junyong Noh; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024, pp. 7872-7881

We propose a method that can generate cinemagraphs automatically from a still landscape image using a pre-trained StyleGAN. Inspired by the success of recent unconditional video generation we leverage a powerful pre-trained image generator to synthesize high-quality cinemagraphs. Unlike previous approaches that mainly utilize the latent space of a pre-trained StyleGAN our approach utilizes its deep feature space for both GAN inversion and cinemagraph generation. Specifically we propose multi-scale deep feature warping (MSDFW) which warps the intermediate features of a pre-trained StyleGAN at different resolutions. By using MSDFW the generated cinemagraphs are of high resolution and exhibit plausible looping animation. We demonstrate the superiority of our method through user studies and quantitative comparisons with state-of-the-art cinemagraph generation methods and a video generation method that uses a pre-trained StyleGAN.