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Accurately quantifying and removing submerged underwater waste plays a crucial role in safeguarding marine life and preserving the environment. While detecting floating and surface debris is relatively straightforward, quantifying submerged…

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Garbage production and littering are persistent global issues that pose significant environmental challenges. Despite large-scale efforts to manage waste through collection and sorting, existing approaches remain inefficient, leading to…

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Improving the automatic and timely recognition of construction and demolition waste composition is crucial for enhancing business returns, economic outcomes and sustainability. While deep learning models show promise in recognizing and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Adrian Langley , Matthew Lonergan , Tao Huang , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

Despite the remarkable success of deep learning systems over the last decade, a key difference still remains between neural network and human decision-making: As humans, we cannot only form a decision on the spot, but also ponder,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Gregor Koehler , Tassilo Wald , Constantin Ulrich , David Zimmerer , Paul F. Jaeger , Jörg K. H. Franke , Simon Kohl , Fabian Isensee , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

The problem of segregating recyclable waste is fairly daunting for many countries. This article presents an approach for image based classification of plastic waste using one-shot learning techniques. The proposed approach exploits…

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Garbage and waste disposal is one of the biggest challenges currently faced by mankind. Proper waste disposal and recycling is a must in any sustainable community, and in many coastal areas there is significant water pollution in the form…

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Path loss prediction for wireless communications is highly dependent on the local environment. Propagation models including clutter information have been shown to significantly increase model accuracy. This paper explores the application of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Ryan Dempsey , Jonathan Ethier

To protect the environment from trash pollution, especially in societies, and to take strict action against the red-handed people who throws the trash. As modern societies are developing and these societies need a modern solution to make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Syed Muhammad Raza , Syed Muhammad Ghazi Hassan , Syed Ali Hassan , Soo Young Shin

Plastic pollution is a critical environmental issue, and detecting and monitoring plastic litter is crucial to mitigate its impact. This paper presents the methodology of mapping street-level litter, focusing primarily on plastic waste and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Sriram Reddy Mandhati , N. Lakmal Deshapriya , Chatura Lavanga Mendis , Kavinda Gunasekara , Frank Yrle , Angsana Chaksan , Sujit Sanjeev

Deep learning approaches heavily rely on high-quality human supervision which is nonetheless expensive, time-consuming, and error-prone, especially for image segmentation task. In this paper, we propose a method to automatically synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Yu Yang , Hakan Bilen , Qiran Zou , Wing Yin Cheung , Xiangyang Ji

Automated waste recycling aims to efficiently separate the recyclable objects from the waste by employing vision-based systems. However, the presence of varying shaped objects having different material types makes it a challenging problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Muhammad Ali , Mamoona Javaid , Mubashir Noman , Mustansar Fiaz , Salman Khan

Industry partners provided a problem statement that involves classifying electronic waste using machine learning models that will be used by pick-and-place robots for waste segregation. This was achieved by taking common electronic waste…

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This paper tackles two key challenges: detecting small, dense, and overlapping objects (a major hurdle in computer vision) and improving the quality of noisy images, especially those encountered in industrial environments. [1, 2]. Our focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Oussama Messai , Abbass Zein-Eddine , Abdelouahid Bentamou , Mickaël Picq , Nicolas Duquesne , Stéphane Puydarrieux , Yann Gavet

A promising direction in deep learning research consists in learning representations and simultaneously discovering cluster structure in unlabeled data by optimizing a discriminative loss function. As opposed to supervised deep learning,…

Deep learning methods have proven to outperform traditional computer vision methods in various areas of image processing. However, the application of deep learning in industrial surface defect detection systems is challenging due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Dominik Martin , Simon Heinzel , Johannes Kunze von Bischhoffshausen , Niklas Kühl

Scene classification, aiming at classifying a scene image to one of the predefined scene categories by comprehending the entire image, is a longstanding, fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision. The rise of large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Delu Zeng , Minyu Liao , Mohammad Tavakolian , Yulan Guo , Bolei Zhou , Dewen Hu , Matti Pietikäinen , Li Liu

Artificial intelligence-based methods are becoming increasingly effective at screening libraries of polymers down to a selection that is manageable for experimental inquiry. The vast majority of presently adopted approaches for polymer…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-16 Rishi Gurnani , Christopher Kuenneth , Aubrey Toland , Rampi Ramprasad

With the global issue of plastic debris ever expanding, it is about time that the technology industry stepped in. This study aims to assess whether deep learning can successfully distinguish between marine life and man-made debris…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Zoe Moorton , Zeyneb Kurt , Wai Lok Woo

In order to solve the recent defect in garbage classification - including low level of intelligence, low accuracy and high cost of equipment, this paper presents a series of methods in identification and judgment in intelligent garbage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Zizhe Wang , Shaomeng Shen , Jiabei Mu

The rapid advances in Deep Learning (DL) techniques have enabled rapid detection, localisation, and recognition of objects from images or videos. DL techniques are now being used in many applications related to agriculture and farming.…

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