Converter to blur an UIImage in Xamarin iOS

UIImageConverter.cs

using UIKit;
using CoreImage;

namespace iOS
{
    public static class UIImageConverter
    {
        public static UIImage Blur(UIImage image)
        {
            var ciImage = new CIImage(image);

            var gaussian_blur = new CIGaussianBlur()
            {
                Image = ciImage,
                Radius = 5f,
            };

            var output = gaussian_blur.OutputImage;

            var context = CIContext.FromOptions(null);
            var cgImage = context.CreateCGImage(output, output.Extent);

            return UIImage.FromImage(cgImage);
        }
    }
}