The Future of Removing Reflections and Opaque Obstructions

[Mike Buckley]

See this.

[rachel]

Ooh, I saw MIT tweeting about reflection removal a while back, but didn't realise it could remove obstacles as well.

[Shadowman]

Nice. Will require very precise pixel peeping to win over fans, but what would you expect.

[Mike Buckley]

Will require very precise pixel peeping to win over fans

Not for the smartphone market

[Dave Humphries]

Interesting Mike, thanks.

The basic principle has been used before in other technologies, radar image processing being the most obvious.

I have long desired this facility to 'recover' a decent still of a middle distance subject (say a stationery animal) when passing by in a car, with fence and/or trees between me and the subject.

Perhaps there should be a PS CC tool for this - give it a second or so of 4k movie (or just a few snaps in burst mode) and see what it can do (automatically, of course).


Kinda similar, but not, is 'synthetic aperture' applications specifically for the phone camera, in which you 'rotate' the lens in an axially circular manner while keeping it focussed on a fairly close subject (think inches/feet). This 'movie' was processed to produce a shot where the effective aperture of the lens (and sensor area?) becomes the periphery of the circular motion; i.e. much larger, giving a reduced Depth of Field effect.

I downloaded on my iPod and played with it for a while, but when I got the Android phone, I stopped using the iPod for anything but music. I never looked to see if there was an Android version, as I found it a novelty rather than useful to me.

[bnnrcn]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing Mike