In Makuhari beach, 28th June 2019.
It’s imaginable that learning plastic fragments is challenging for the AI in many ways because plastic wastes, in general, are very diverse in shapes or colors, that makes harder to obtain the ability to generalize what plastic waste should look like. So it’ll be a good approach to split up the problem into several stages. For a starter, I’ll be focusing on detecting plastic bottle caps.
Both luckily and sadly, the beach that day was full of plastic bottle caps. And I took pictures of them with the digital camera and my smartphone, which winded up with about 500 images in total, which can be a generous amount of training data for 1 class of object.
It’s still hard for me though to tell if this works until I train the neural network. Let’s give it a shot.