Image blurring

 

Image blurring can be done for various reasons in Image processing and computer vision. Following are some of the examples, in which you might want to blur the image.

 

1.   To protect the privacy: We can blur the original image to protect privacy of the information. For example, we can blur the people faces, number plates etc., to protect the privacy.

2.   Noise reduction: When image has a noise, we can use image blurring to reduce noise and make the image cleaner.

3.   Image pre-processing: Various image analysis tasks, such as edge detection or object recognition use image blurring as a pre-processing step.

 

Original Image

 

Blurred image

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