Upload base64 image with Ajax

I finally decided to convert the base64 image to a Blob so it can be sent via an Ajax request with the formData object as follows.
It saves upload bandwidth (base64 takes 33% more bits than its binary equivalent) and I couldn’t find the reason for no transmission of base64 parameter (due to size limitation somewhere for sure).

The base64ToBlob function is based on this answer to another question.

function base64ToBlob(base64, mime) 
{
    mime = mime || '';
    var sliceSize = 1024;
    var byteChars = window.atob(base64);
    var byteArrays = [];

    for (var offset = 0, len = byteChars.length; offset < len; offset += sliceSize) {
        var slice = byteChars.slice(offset, offset + sliceSize);

        var byteNumbers = new Array(slice.length);
        for (var i = 0; i < slice.length; i++) {
            byteNumbers[i] = slice.charCodeAt(i);
        }

        var byteArray = new Uint8Array(byteNumbers);

        byteArrays.push(byteArray);
    }

    return new Blob(byteArrays, {type: mime});
}

My JS code:

var url = "url/action";                
var image = $('#image-id').attr('src');
var base64ImageContent = image.replace(/^data:image\/(png|jpg);base64,/, "");
var blob = base64ToBlob(base64ImageContent, 'image/png');                
var formData = new FormData();
formData.append('picture', blob);

$.ajax({
    url: url, 
    type: "POST", 
    cache: false,
    contentType: false,
    processData: false,
    data: formData})
        .done(function(e){
            alert('done!');
        });

In Symfony2 I can retrieve the image thanks to:

$picture = $request->files->get('picture');