Interactive Cinemagrams

A method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for interactive cinemagrams. The method includes displaying a still frame of a cinemagram on a display of an electronic device, the cinemagram having an animated portion. The method also includes after the displaying, identifying occurrence of a triggering event based on an input from one or more sensors of the electronic device. Additionally, the method includes initiating animation of the animated portion of the cinemagram in response to identifying the occurrence of the triggering event. The method may also include generating the image as a cinemagram by identifying a reference frame from a plurality of frames and an object in the reference frame, segmenting the object from the reference frame, tracking the object across multiple of the frames, determining whether a portion of the reference frame lacks pixel information during motion of the object, and identifying pixel information to add to the portion.