In the future, your smartphone could be taking photos and videos without reflections, obstructions getting in the way

A team of Google and MIT researches have devised an ingenious computational approach to what they’re calling ‘obstruction-free’ photography, and will be presenting the fruits of their labor at SIGGRAPH 2015. Luckily for us, the team behind the algorithm — including Tianfan Xue, Michael Rubinstein, Ce Liu, and William T. Freeman — have already released some impressive sample footage. While it’s certainly a bit too early to make any educated guesses, we could speculate that, in the future, a camera feature such as this could be a part of your smartphone.