What kind of application could something like this 'smarter' blur have. In addition, I also wonder to what extent this can be used as I think there are some pretty noticeable edges where the leaves are at and especially when it is next to a shadow but it seems to just blur all the leaves.
waleedlatif1
@DannyTran123 My guess is that one particularly useful application of this could be in portrait photography, where they typically use a shallow depth of field to blur the background and place emphasis on the subject of focus. In this case, selectively blurring could maintain some of the higher contrast areas and prevent the loss of detail.
starptr
Low-poly-like aesthetics can also probably be achieved with this, since you want to use a solid color for a singe polygon and have sharp edges between each polygon
joeyzhao123
I was looking at what waleedlatif1 said about the selective blurring. Wouldn't photographers have the tools to get whatever effect in terms of the background blurring they want while taking the photo? I feel like this blurring has an element of unnaturalness to it. I'm not sure why this is all that useful.
rsha256
Mathematically, what would this "smarter" look like? How would this be different from a regular blur?
wangdotjason
Is this technique similar to Anisotropic Diffusion (developed by Berkeley's Jitendra Malik!), where an area's color gradient magnitude and direction determine its diffusion?
What kind of application could something like this 'smarter' blur have. In addition, I also wonder to what extent this can be used as I think there are some pretty noticeable edges where the leaves are at and especially when it is next to a shadow but it seems to just blur all the leaves.
@DannyTran123 My guess is that one particularly useful application of this could be in portrait photography, where they typically use a shallow depth of field to blur the background and place emphasis on the subject of focus. In this case, selectively blurring could maintain some of the higher contrast areas and prevent the loss of detail.
Low-poly-like aesthetics can also probably be achieved with this, since you want to use a solid color for a singe polygon and have sharp edges between each polygon
I was looking at what waleedlatif1 said about the selective blurring. Wouldn't photographers have the tools to get whatever effect in terms of the background blurring they want while taking the photo? I feel like this blurring has an element of unnaturalness to it. I'm not sure why this is all that useful.
Mathematically, what would this "smarter" look like? How would this be different from a regular blur?
Is this technique similar to Anisotropic Diffusion (developed by Berkeley's Jitendra Malik!), where an area's color gradient magnitude and direction determine its diffusion?