NEC and JAMSTEC Develop AI-based System for Measuring Microplastics in the Ocean

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TOKYO, Jul 3, 2020 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701), in cooperation with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), today announced the development of a system to automatically detect microplastics from seawater and sediment samples at high speed by using AI-based image recognition techniques. This

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