Very cool. But one inconvenient is that the processing they do removes all moving objects from the image. Look at page 10 of the paper: the 8 cars present in the original image on the road are absent from the reflection-free image.
Ohhh this is beautiful. I have this childhood memory of my father trying to take pictures of vases behind glass in the museum, struggling to find an angle at which the polarization filter would remove most of the reflections on the glass display case...
The eyelets in a fence are much larger than your average camera lens. If you can go right up to the fence, the problem is solved.<p>Reflections from glass are minimized by also sticking the camera lens right up to the glass, and providing some shading around it. A simple lens skirt could be developed for this purpose (if such a thing doesn't exist already).<p>Possible design: cone-shaped coil spring encased in opaque cloth, with rubber o-ring gaskets fitted on both ends. One gasket (narrow end) goes on the camera/phone around the lens, the flared end gasket goes onto the glass.
Here's the official Siggraph 2015 submission, linking to both the PDF as well as the demonstration video:<p><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/obstructionfreephotography/" rel="nofollow">https://sites.google.com/site/obstructionfreephotography/</a>
nice work! what are the applications for that besides taking clean pictures behind a glass windows or a fence?<p>Security agencies applying that algorithms to see if they can obtain some extra information out of the reflected pictures?
TL;DD (Too Large, Didn't Download)<p>I did search google for "Obstruction free Photography" and there is one video on youtube that explains the technology and provides examples.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoyNiatRIh4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoyNiatRIh4</a>