New Smart Phone App Removes People That Wander Into Your Shot

We've all experienced this - you are trying to take a picture of your sweetheart  or kids in a crowded place, and there are people walking in the frame.  Unless you have near-infinite patience, or can come back in the middle of the night, the situation is hopeless, right?  Wrong.  

Now a new smart phone app promises to let you edit out these innocent, but disturbing bystanders, leaving just leave your loved ones and a beautiful view intact.

Remove, developed by Swedish photography firm Scalado, takes a burst of shots of your scene. It then identifies the objects which are moving - based on their relative position in each frame. These objects are then highlighted and you can delete the ones you don't want and keep the ones you do, leaving you with a nice, clean composite shot.
Remove uses similar technology to the firm's Rewind app, launched last year, which merges composite group shots to create the best single image.

The app is just a prototype at the moment - as is the video below - but Scalado will demonstrate a full version at the 2012 Mobile World Conference in Barcelona later this month.