Out-of-Focus Detection with Mosaic Texture

[Smallpoly]

I'd really love to see a higher quality result from Mosaic textures that weeds out blurry sections of photos, favoring things the most in focus instead, even if it significantly extends the processing time. Not having to go back and try to weed things out and render individual photos to patch things up would easily make it worth it. I'm willing to wait for a higher quality result.

For instance, in textures like this from a recent scan of an english muffin...


...the blurry parts of the texture are coming from a photo I took when focusing on a different part, while the part used in the texture was tilted away. The in-focus parts are coming from sections that were shot straight-on.

[Alexey Pasumansky]

Hello Smallpoly,

Do you have any sample dataset that can be shared with us for the internal test and development regarding similar issues?

[Smallpoly]

Sure. You can download the project here. (856MB): http://tbf.me/a/Bc8D1p
Or if you just need the photos (512MB): http://tbf.me/a/2qb3F
The files expire in 30 days, so let me know if you need them up again later on.

Here's a partially cropped example image at full res. I'm shooting at 28.2MP. The out of focus sections in this shot are fairly well covered by other photos.
https://i.imgur.com/77Ew4sm.jpg

[Alexey Pasumansky]

Hello Smallpoly,

Thank you for sharing, we'll download them shortly.