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

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.The team created a dataset of approximately 12,000 images based on footage of Japan's seabed captured by the agency since 1983, featuring small litter objects, a…READ FULL ARTICLE