Four students have a pair of glasses developed brands and advertisements from the real-life fades away. They therefore use a database of images. Really easy to use the glasses at this time yet.
The students of Penn, and Johns Hopkins universities made their own glasses, in appearance similar to a virtual reality glasses, which the frames out. The chip on board of the glasses filters out images the camera makes on the basis of a database of ads and brands. In a match, ads are unrecognizable and blurred on the screen of the glasses shown.
The glasses is at this moment still very large and also is the frame rate of the stream is still very low, making the glasses is not suitable for daily use. Another limitation is that ads and brands is all in a database before they can be filtered out, so the detection is not foolproof. Finally, it seems the glasses have difficulty with moving images.
According to the students, the technology can be further developed, and can the glasses be made narrower, though it is unclear whether they themselves are planning. They used the sift algorithm for image recognition, which was implemented using Python and OpenCV. It is not known whether the students for their idea were inspired by John Carpenter movie from 1988 They Live