Shows like CSI have long been the butt of many a joke for their incredibly unrealistic god-like computer software. Take a blurry reflection of a subject in someone’s contact lenses, press the magical enhance button, and boom - there’s your murderer. Lock ‘em up boys.

It seems far too good to be true, but a new piece of software developed by Google and MIT could soon make imaging fantasy a reality. The two tech giants have collaborated to create an algorithm which is able to completely eradicate reflections in photographs, letting you snap shots through windows without a care in the world.

The process can also isolate the reflections themselves, adding meat to their ghostly bones so to speak, providing some very impressive results in the process.

Chain-link fences aren’t safe either - the algorithm is clever enough to make them vanish completely, providing an uninterrupted view at the press of a button.