Hand-Crafted Features for Floating Plastic Detection
Matija Sukno,Ivana Palunko,Matija Sukno,Ivana Palunko
Plastic waste is a global concern that has a negative impact on the oceans and wildlife health. This paper focuses on detection of floating plastics in aerial images taken from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). It proposes a new method for plastic detection in marine environments, based on SIFT descriptor and color histograms for feature extraction, as an alternative to state-of-the-art object dete...
