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- Title
An Image Analysis of River-Floating Waste Materials by Using Deep Learning Techniques.
- Authors
Nunkhaw, Maiyatat; Miyamoto, Hitoshi
- Abstract
Plastic pollution in the ocean is a severe environmental problem worldwide because rivers carry plastic waste from human activities, harming the ocean's health, ecosystems, and people. Therefore, monitoring the amount of plastic waste flowing from rivers and streams worldwide is crucial. In response to this issue of river-floating waste, our present research aimed to develop an automated waste measurement method tailored for real rivers. To achieve this, we considered three scenarios: clear visibility, partially submerged waste, and collective mass. We proposed the use of object detection and tracking techniques based on deep learning architectures, specifically the You Only Look Once (YOLOv5) and Simple Online and Realtime Tracking with a Deep Association Metric (DeepSORT). The types of waste classified in this research included cans, cartons, plastic bottles, foams, glasses, papers, and plastics in laboratory flume experiments. Our results demonstrated that the refined YOLOv5, when applied to river-floating waste images, achieved high classification accuracy, with 88% or more for the mean average precision. The floating waste tracking using DeepSORT also attained F1 scores high enough for accurate waste counting. Furthermore, we evaluated the proposed method across the three different scenarios, each achieving an 80% accuracy rate, suggesting its potential applicability in real river environments. These results strongly support the effectiveness of our proposed method, leveraging the two deep learning architectures for detecting and tracking river-floating waste with high accuracy.
- Subjects
WASTE products; IMAGE analysis; DEEP learning; OBJECT recognition (Computer vision); HUMAN activity recognition; MARINE pollution; MARINE ecosystem health; PLASTIC scrap
- Publication
Water (20734441), 2024, Vol 16, Issue 10, p1373
- ISSN
2073-4441
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/w16101373