| title | AnyBokeh: Physics-Guided Any-to-Any Bokeh Editing with Optical Fingerprint Transfer |
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| authors | Xinyu Hou, Xiaoming Li, Zongsheng Yue, Chen Change Loy |
| date | 2026-06-30 |
| venue | arXiv (preprint, not peer reviewed) |
| id | arXiv:2606.31959 |
| affiliation | Nanyang Technological University |
| upvotes | 5 (Hugging Face Daily Papers, 2026-11-01) |
| links | abs pdf hf code |
| abstract | Depth-of-field control is a fundamental tool in photography, yet post-capture bokeh editing from a single image remains challenging. A practical editor should handle images captured under arbitrary focus and aperture settings. Existing methods typically assume an all-in-focus input, or first recover an all-in-focus image before rendering new bokeh. Such pipelines can discard useful blur cues from the source image and propagate reconstruction artifacts into the final edit. We introduce AnyBokeh, a physics-guided framework for any-to-any bokeh editing. Instead of treating source blur merely as a degradation to be removed, AnyBokeh estimates the source blur state with a signed circle-of-confusion map and a disparity map. By modeling the linear relation between signed circle of confusion and disparity difference, AnyBokeh estimates a source-specific optical fingerprint and transfers the source optical characteristics to the desired focus and aperture setting. A generative editor conditioned on both source and target circle-of-confusion maps then performs relative blur synthesis, enabling spatially adaptive deblurring, preservation, and defocus rendering. To support physically supervised learning, we further construct a high-fidelity synthetic dataset with accurate depth, focus distance, and full EXIF metadata. Experiments on real-world benchmarks show that AnyBokeh achieves faithful and controllable editing across any-to-any bokeh editing, all-in-focus-to-bokeh rendering, and defocus deblurring, while avoiding all-in-focus reconstruction and test-time bokeh-level calibration commonly required by existing approaches. The code and dataset will be available at https://github.com/itsmag11/AnyBokeh. |
cite
@misc{hou2026anybokeh,
title={AnyBokeh: Physics-Guided Any-to-Any Bokeh Editing with Optical Fingerprint Transfer},
author={Xinyu Hou and Xiaoming Li and Zongsheng Yue and Chen Change Loy},
year={2026},
eprint={2606.31959},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31959}
}