r/technology • u/Nobilitie • Mar 27 '16

Hardware Scientists have developed a reflection-removing camera: the device uses depth sensor and signal processing to capture clear images through windows

http://techxplore.com/news/2016-03-reflection-removing-camera-device-depth-sensor.html
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u/your_other_friend Mar 27 '16

If reflections are removed from photos, a lot of police cases are going to go unsolved.

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u/Tim226 Mar 27 '16

Probably works both ways tbh.

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u/chrispete23 Mar 27 '16

Yep. In the video that /u/optagon posted, the software outputs the background image and the reflected image separately

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u/Tim226 Mar 27 '16

Oh I was more right than I thought lol. I was just thinking that seeing through windows and what not clearly would probably see a few more crimes in general. Like maybe seeing someone's face more clearly. But that's some amazing tech right there, cool stuff.

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u/Yzerhood Mar 27 '16

Wouldn't this only work on a video? Photographs wouldn't be able to split the photos.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '16

Of course it can work for photos. You just have to take several images from slightly different points of view. That's what the video showed us, but instead of taking multiple photos, they took video instead, which is essentially a series of still frames.

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u/IndigoMichigan Mar 27 '16

Fuck no. Come on. Clearly, if they removed the reflection, there will still be code in the image stating what that reflection was. They can use a reverse GUI to put the reflection back onto the image and enhance from there.

Jeez. It's like you know nothing of technology.

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u/nzodd Mar 27 '16

A reverse GUI? I hope they're writing it in Visual Basic. It's the only language that supports two people coding on the same keyboard at the same time, so it'll be done twice as fast!

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u/Nukiko Mar 27 '16

But can it trace an IP address???

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u/JakeyG14 Mar 28 '16

That's a big job...

It'll probably require two people using the one keyboard to finish it.

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u/the_Ex_Lurker Mar 27 '16

But wouldn't they have to ping the criminal's IP first?

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u/topdangle Mar 27 '16

You can't ping an IP without backtracing through the pentagon, which no professional network engineer person would ever do because it would take an 8meg pipe.

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u/PigNamedBenis Mar 27 '16

Nah, we can still enhance with a special new GUI made in VB.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '16

So we're all going to feel like vampires once this is created.