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Waste management is one of the significant problems throughout the world. Contemporaneous methods find it difficult to manage the volume of solid waste generated by the growing urban population. In this paper, we propose a system which is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Siddhant Bansal , Seema Patel , Ishita Shah , Alpesh Patel , Jagruti Makwana , Rajesh Thakker

The exponential growth in waste production due to rapid economic and industrial development necessitates efficient waste management strategies to mitigate environmental pollution and resource depletion. Leveraging advancements in computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Jenil Kanani

Effective waste sorting is critical for sustainable recycling, yet AI research in this domain continues to lag behind commercial systems due to limited datasets and reliance on legacy object detectors. In this work, we advance AI-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Hassan Abid , Khan Muhammad , Muhammad Haris Khan

The illegal disposal of trash is a major public health and environmental concern. Disposing of trash in unplanned places poses serious health and environmental risks. We should try to restrict public trash cans as much as possible. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Kashish Jain , Manthan Juthani , Jash Jain , Anant V. Nimkar

Computer vision methods have shown to be effective in classifying garbage into recycling categories for waste processing, existing methods are costly, imprecise, and unclear. To tackle this issue, we introduce MWaste, a mobile application…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Suman Kunwar

The efficiency of using the YOLOV5 machine learning model for solving the problem of automatic de-tection and recognition of micro-objects in the marine environment is studied. Samples of microplankton and microplastics were prepared,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Aleksandr N. Grekov , Yurii E. Shishkin , Sergei S. Peliushenko , Aleksandr S. Mavrin

Smart Bins have become popular in smart cities and campuses around the world. These bins have a compaction mechanism that increases the bins' capacity as well as automated real-time collection notifications. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Gary White , Christian Cabrera , Andrei Palade , Fan Li , Siobhan Clarke

Less than 35% of recyclable waste is being actually recycled in the US, which leads to increased soil and sea pollution and is one of the major concerns of environmental researchers as well as the common public. At the heart of the problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Dina Bashkirova , Mohamed Abdelfattah , Ziliang Zhu , James Akl , Fadi Alladkani , Ping Hu , Vitaly Ablavsky , Berk Calli , Sarah Adel Bargal , Kate Saenko

The increasing production of waste, driven by population growth, has created challenges in managing and recycling materials effectively. Manual waste sorting is a common practice; however, it remains inefficient for handling large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Sara Inácio , Hugo Proença , João C. Neves

With the ongoing increase in the worldwide population and escalating consumption habits,there's a surge in the amount of waste produced.The situation poses considerable challenges for waste management and the optimization of recycling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Zhanshan Qiao

We consider the problem of sorting a densely cluttered pile of unknown objects using a robot. This yet unsolved problem is relevant in the robotic waste sorting business. By extending previous active learning approaches to grasping, we show…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Janne V. Kujala , Tuomas J. Lukka , Harri Holopainen

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a paradigm characterized by a network of embedded sensors and services. These sensors are incorporated to collect various information, track physical conditions, e.g., waste bins' status, and exchange data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Mohammadhossein Ghahramani , Mengchu Zhou , Anna Molter , Francesco Pilla

This paper presents an AI system applied to location and robotic grasping. Experimental setup is based on a parameter study to train a deep-learning network based on Mask-RCNN to perform waste location in indoor and outdoor environment,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Victor De Gea , Santiago T. Puente , Pablo Gil

With the continuous advancement of industrial automation, product quality inspection has become increasingly important in the manufacturing process. Traditional inspection methods, which often rely on manual checks or simple machine vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zhen Qi , Liwei Ding , Xiangtian Li , Jiacheng Hu , Bin Lyu , Ao Xiang

AI-based object detection, and efforts to explain and investigate their characteristics, is a topic of high interest. The impact of, e.g., complex background structures with similar appearances as the objects of interest, on the detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Toni Schneidereit , Stefan Gohrenz , Michael Breuß

In this paper, we address the problem of detecting small, dense, and overlapping objects, a major challenge in computer vision. Our focus is on reviewing proposed methods based on deep learning supervised approaches. We provide a detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Oussama Messai , Abbass Zein-Eddine , Abdelouahid Bentamou , Mickael Picq , Nicolas Duquesne , Stéphane Puydarrieux , Yann Gavet

Traditional electronic recycling processes suffer from significant resource loss due to inadequate material separation and identification capabilities, limiting material recovery. We present A.R.I.S. (Automated Recycling Identification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Dhruv Talwar , Harsh Desai , Wendong Yin , Goutam Mohanty , Rafael Reveles

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Matias Molina , Rita P. Ribeiro , Bruno Veloso , João Gama

Waste is a wealth in a wrong place. Our research focuses on analyzing possibilities for automatic waste sorting and collecting in such a way that helps it for further recycling process. Various approaches are being practiced managing waste…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Dipesh Gyawali , Alok Regmi , Aatish Shakya , Ashish Gautam , Surendra Shrestha

Fires have destructive power when they break out and affect their surroundings on a devastatingly large scale. The best way to minimize their damage is to detect the fire as quickly as possible before it has a chance to grow. Accordingly,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Otto Zell , Joel Pålsson , Kevin Hernandez-Diaz , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez , Felix Nilsson