SMACC: a System for Microplastics Automatic Counting and Classification
The management of plastic debris is a serious issue due to its durability. Unfortunately, million
tons of plastic end up in the sea becoming one of the biggest current environmental problems. One way to
monitor the amount of plastic in beaches is to collect samples and visually count and sort the plastic particles
present in them. This is a very time-consuming task. In this work, we present a Computer Vision-based
system which is able to automatically count and classify microplastic particles (1-5 mm) into five different