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Deep transfer learning benchmark for plastic waste classification
Summary
Researchers benchmarked six deep transfer learning models for classifying plastic waste types, achieving high accuracy in automated sorting that could help address plastic pollution by improving recycling efficiency.
Millions of people throughout the world have been harmed by plastic pollution. There are microscopic pieces of plastic in the food we eat, the water we drink, and even the air we breathe. Every year, the average human consumes 74,000 microplastics, which has a significant impact on their health. This pollution must be addressed before it has a significant negative influence on the population. This research benchmarks six state-of-the-art convolutional neural network models pre-trained on the ImageNet Dataset. The models Resnet-50, ResNeXt, MobileNet_v2, DenseNet, SchuffleNet and AlexNet were tested and evaluated on the WaDaBa plastic dataset, to classify plastic types based on their resin codes by integrating the power of transfer learning. The accuracy and training time for each model has been compared in this research. Due to the imbalance in the data, the under-sampling approach has been used. The ResNeXt model attains the highest accuracy in fourteen minutes.
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