Creating cinemagraphs from a single image

A system comprising:

• one or more memory devices comprising a cyclic animation neural network;
• and
• one or more processors coupled to the one or more memory devices that cause the system to perform operations comprising:
• extracting features from a digital image depicting one or more manipulable objects utilizing an encoder of the cyclic animation neural network;
• generating time encodings;
• generating one or more wind direction encodings;
• decoding the extracted features together with the time encodings and the one or more wind direction encodings utilizing a decoder of the cyclic animation neural network to generate a plurality of images with the one or more manipulable objects warped in a time dependent sequence based on a wind direction;
• and
• generating a cinemagraph from the plurality of images that animates the one or more manipulable objects.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:

• generating a surface normal map of an image depicting one or more manipulable objects;
• generating, utilizing a cyclic animation neural network, a plurality of warped surface normal maps from the surface normal map by modifying surface normals of the one or more manipulable objects in a time dependent sequence;
• synthesizing a plurality of modified images from the plurality of warped surface normal maps;
• and
• generating a cinemagraph from the plurality of modified images.