AI assist

AI helps people review — it doesn't decide alone

Explore how image-assisted review can suggest a material type and flag contamination, always with a person confirming the outcome.

AI-assisted material review

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Illustrative Demonstration Data

PET Plastic

Plastic #1

Accepted
Model confidence
Material type
Plastic #1
Contamination
Low

Clear bottle, clean.

How AI assists

In the competition edition, image-assisted models can suggest a likely material type, estimate a confidence score, and flag possible contamination — helping the team review faster and more consistently.

These are suggestions, not decisions. A person always confirms the outcome. Low-confidence or contaminated items are routed to human review rather than accepted automatically.

Illustrative Demonstration Data — no real AI runs on this page.

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