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Recycling for Recycling: RoI Cropping by Recycling a Pre-Trained Attention Mechanism for Accurate Classification of Recyclables

  • Yeong Hyeon Park
  • , Myung Jin Kim
  • , Won Seok Park
  • , Juneho Yi
  • Sungkyunkwan University
  • SK Corporation

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Abstract

Automated classification of recyclable waste is necessary to process a huge amount of recyclables for reuse. This research features recycling a pre-trained attention mechanism for cropping region of interest (RoI) for efficient classification of recyclable waste. We report that an attention mechanism pre-trained with the MNIST dataset, followed by simple morphological operations, successfully provides a bounding box for a recyclable object to be fed into object recognition models such as ResNet50 and EffNetB0. This way, we avoid the cost of annotating large datasets to train state-of-the-art object detection models such as YOLO and R-CNN. Experimental results using the Recyclable Solid Waste Dataset (RSWD) show that our attention-based RoI cropping method is effective enough to separate an object for recognition to achieve accurate classification of recyclables.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSIST 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Smart Information Systems and Technologies, Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages429-433
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9798350335040
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event2023 IEEE International Conference on Smart Information Systems and Technologies, SIST 2023 - Astana, Kazakhstan
Duration: 4 May 20236 May 2023

Publication series

NameSIST 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Smart Information Systems and Technologies, Proceedings

Conference

Conference2023 IEEE International Conference on Smart Information Systems and Technologies, SIST 2023
Country/TerritoryKazakhstan
CityAstana
Period4/05/236/05/23

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  2. SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
    SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

Keywords

  • attention mechanism
  • recycling
  • RoI detection
  • system automation
  • waste classification

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