  Objects moving at high speed appear significantly blurred when captured with
cameras. The blurry appearance is especially ambiguous when the object has
complex shape or texture. In such cases, classical methods, or even humans, are
unable to recover the object's appearance and motion. We propose a method that,
given a single image with its estimated background, outputs the object's
appearance and position in a series of sub-frames as if captured by a
high-speed camera (i.e. temporal super-resolution). The proposed generative
model embeds an image of the blurred object into a latent space representation,
disentangles the background, and renders the sharp appearance. Inspired by the
image formation model, we design novel self-supervised loss function terms that
boost performance and show good generalization capabilities. The proposed DeFMO
method is trained on a complex synthetic dataset, yet it performs well on
real-world data from several datasets. DeFMO outperforms the state of the art
and generates high-quality temporal super-resolution frames.
