Illegal landfills are a critical issue due to their environmental, economic, and public health impacts. This study leverages aerial imagery for environmental crime monitoring. While advances in artificial intelligence and computer vision hold promise, the challenge lies in training models with high-resolution literature datasets and adapting them to open-access low-resolution images. Considering the substantial quality differences and limited annotation, this research explores the adaptability of models across these domains. Motivated by the necessity for a comprehensive evaluation of waste detection algorithms, it advocates cross-domain classification and super-resolution enhancement to analyze the impact of different image resolutions on waste classification as an evaluation to combat the proliferation of illegal landfills. We observed performance improvements by enhancing image quality but noted an influence on model sensitivity, necessitating careful threshold fine-tuning.
@article{arxiv.2404.01790,
title = {Super-Resolution Analysis for Landfill Waste Classification},
author = {Matias Molina and Rita P. Ribeiro and Bruno Veloso and João Gama},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.01790},
year = {2024}
}
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This article has been accepted by the Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA 2024)