Parallax Effect (3D) with Lens Blur in Google Camera

While Lytro and others release lightfield cameras, Google does magic in software. For example, in Lens Blur mode, Google Camera uses Z-buffering and saves a depth map (i.e., distance information to objects).


Depth map in Lens Blur mode

A few days ago on Github published LensBlurDepthExtractor.js , which extracts the depth map from photos taken in Google Camera.

You can use this metadata to change the depth of field and blur the separated objects.
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Change sharpness using depth map

A beautiful parallax effect is created with emulation of a 3D scene. The first Depthy web service, which processes photos using the above code, has already opened.



Depthy source code .