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Marine Debris Simulator

Team VAPALU:�

Luis Hibarguen

Paola Rivera

Valerie Murillo

Alexis Morales

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Project Sumary

In our Project we will try to create a simulator and find a way to detect the garbage or waste found in the oceans, rivers, etc. Through this simulator, after detecting the garbage, it seeks to classify by object and quantity of each one in order to facilitate its collection and recycling.

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¿How Does It Work?

The first thing it does is recognize the directory where the folders of the images are, then it identifies the subdirectories and the images within each one and then make a count of each folder and after recognizing each image it makes another count to know the number of images of each waste. Then it goes through a training set where the model is trained so that it can perform the classification of the different types of garbage.

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IMAGE SET CREATION

In this part what we do is load 2 images in random format, whose loading was done previously, to be able to size them in a 1D format.

Clearly there is the fact that when doing this procedure, the images have high data therefore we compress it with the shape

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We train CNN

We start the training and validation of our machine. We thought about introducing the images, pixels, arrays and this one will learn by itself to know the best weights that they have by comparing 2 images.

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¿What do you hope to achieve?

We hope to have a simulator that through drones with cameras manages to detect through sensors the different waste that is in the sea to later be quantified and classified according to its type of garbage to later be quantified once again according to its type and thus have knowledge of the waste that most reaches the sea.

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CONCLUSION

Our team decided to choose the theme of preserving the seas free from pollution since this is a higher priority issue that must be taken very seriously and not lightly so that humanity can continue to live on this vast planet in resources for survival. With this software we want to show society the tons of human waste in the seas and that each year these numbers increase considerably.