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

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.

So what exactly is obstruction-free ...