Waste or trash management is receiving increased attention for intelligent and sustainable development, particularly in developed and developing countries. The waste or trash management system comprises several related processes that carry out various complex functions. Recently, interest in deep learning (DL) has increased in providing alternative computational techniques for determining the solution to various waste or trash management problems. Researchers have concentrated on this domain, and as a result, significant research has been published, particularly in recent years. According to the literature, a few comprehensive surveys have been done on waste detection and classification. However, no study has investigated the application of DL to solve waste or trash management problems in various domains and highlight the available datasets for waste detection and classification in different domains. To this end, this survey contributes by reviewing various image classification and object detection models, and their applications in waste detection and classification problems, providing an analysis of waste detection and classification techniques with precise and organized representation and compiling over twenty benchmarked trash datasets. Also, we backed up the study with the challenges of existing methods and the future potential in this field. This will give researchers in this area a solid background and knowledge of the state-of-the-art deep learning models and insight into the research areas that can still be explored.

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A Survey on Waste Detection and Classification Using Deep Learning

Some people are too ignorant of their surroundings. Most of them, usually, throw trash illegally in the streets or abandoned areas. In this paper, to get rid of such a problem, we have proposed a real-time monitoring mechanism to find the illegal trash throwing person for an intelligent surveillance system. The proposed mechanism of finding people and trash from the video frame can be done using subsequently applying the following several steps. At first, we have applied the shadow removal technique and then applied the background subtraction procedure. To reduce the noise levels, we have implemented labeling & filtering operations. For extracting feature vectors, a histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) is used. Finally, by applying a support vector machine classifier (SVM), we have identified both humans and trash from the video frames. The key contribution of this proposed framework is to gain better performance by applying the shadow removal technique before the background subtraction procedure. Besides, the temporary bounding box concept has been taken into consideration during the trash detection phase.

Sudipto Chaki

Papers

Illegal Trash Thrower Detection Based on HOGSVM for a Real-Time Monitoring System