Japan research team develops AI system to detect plastic litter on seabed

TOKYO - A Japanese team of researchers has developed an artificial intelligence system to better detect marine plastic waste on the seabed, it said in an international journal on Thursday.

A team from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology has developed a system called DeepLitterAI. Capable of processing data at almost twice the speed of humans, it is expected to be utilized for real-time monitoring of marine plastic waste.