Motivated by the concerning statistic that over 100,000 marine animals die each year due to plastic pollution, I developed OceanWatch, an Object Detection AI using the YOLOv8 model and a public dataset from Kaggle. OceanWatch is designed to detect pollution in aquatic environments, sending alerts and footage to a designated phone number for quick identification of the pollution source. To make the solution portable and capable of real-time detection, I’m using Raspberry Pi hardware and a Raspberry Pi camera. With this innovative approach, I aim to contribute to the protection of marine life and the preservation of our oceans.
