You Only Look Once (YOLO) Models and Environmental Geoscience

So many applications of machine vision YOLO (You Only Look Once) models in the earth sciences. I came across a few environmental examples where YOLO models were used on unmanned boats and drones to detect rubbish (garbage). This might help clean up our rivers to some extent. There are other examples where even recyclables can be differentiated.

You don’t have to be a programmer or data scientist to build your own YOLO machine vision model. There are many no-code solutions to help, such as Datature. Once you have built a YOLO model you can use it operationalise it through an API, or use locally on your smartphone, or more sophisticated hardware. So many possibilities for use cases to assist us.

Chen and Zhu (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-55051-3