Multilayer hybrid deep-learning method for waste classification and recycling

Yinghao Chu, Chen Huang, Xiaodan Xie, Bohai Tan, Shyam Kamal, Xiaogang Xiong*

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Abstract

This study proposes a multilayer hybrid deep-learning system (MHS) to automatically sort waste disposed of by individuals in the urban public area. This system deploys a high-resolution camera to capture waste image and sensors to detect other useful feature information. The MHS uses a CNN-based algorithm to extract image features and a multilayer perceptrons (MLP) method to consolidate image features and other feature information to classify wastes as recyclable or the others. The MHS is trained and validated against the manually labelled items, achieving overall classification accuracy higher than 90% under two different testing scenarios, which significantly outperforms a reference CNN-based method relying on image-only inputs. Copyright © 2018 Yinghao Chu et al.
Original languageEnglish
Article number5060857
JournalComputational Intelligence and Neuroscience
Volume2018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes

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Funding

This work was partly financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 11702073), Shenzhen Key Lab Fund of Mechanisms and Control in Aerospace (Grant no. ZDSYS201703031002066), and the Basic Research Plan of Shenzhen (Grant nos. JCYJ20170413112645981 and JCYJ20170811160440239).

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