Paper Review: Wakey-Wakey: Animate Text by Mimicking Characters in a GIF

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Problem

• Kinetic Typography has limitations (challenging and time-consuming)
• previous way (alleviate the authoring burden) -> but limited customizability)

Solution

• Use GIF trajectories of several key points
• User can customize and refine -> more desirable output

Design Space

• Both direct generation and fine-grain refinement
  • Direct generation:
    • Generalize to various user requirements
  • Fine-grain refinement:
    • Address uncertainty problem
• Empower creators with interpretable algorithmic parameters
  • Providing explanations for the generation process
    • Can provide feedback and make adjustments at every step of generation process
• Human Experience + Supervision = Higher quality and more consistent generations in the line with users’ expectation

Authoring Experience

• Different View:

  • Input View: Mandatory

    • Users first input

  • Correction View: Optional

    • Drag the displayed the key points from the motion trajectory extraction module to a suitable location

  • Refinement View: Optional

    • Configure the parameters a and e
    • Select whether the kinetic typography is generated by aligning to key points