Surprisingly well faked in face of the fact that there's no real 3D information in the pictures. There simply cannot be new 'pixels' appearing that were (i.e. before applying the effect) hidden from objects in the cameras line-of-sight. This is evident upon closer inspection (look at edges around the approximate middle of the DOF). The trompe-l'œil then falls a bit apart. Interestingly, I did not notice above with th…
It's exactly that - single image, and a depth map calculated from a series of shots made upwards. Both these are bundled in a fake-bokeh image. There is obviously no more pixels. However... If you choose your subject wisely, the effect can be pretty believeable, using a simple displacement map. On iOS though it's something different. There's no depth map in there, just a flat image moving counterwise to your hand mov…
Re: Parallax effect from Google Lens Blur photos
#41It sounds like there are two issues here. One is how the depth map is generated, and the other is how the resulting image file is formatted. For the former, several still images are collected while the camera is moving, which provides parallax which can be used to generate the depth map. For the latter, I don't know, but it would certainly be possible to bundle both the depth map and multiple "layers" of photograph that could be used to actually expose new pixels in the background when the foreground moves.