Identification of residues deposited outside of the deposition equipment, using video analytics

• Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, Soraia Hermínia Aguiar Afonso
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/23947
• topic: Convolutional neural networks; Machine learning; Processamento de imagens -- Image processing; Neural architecture; Redes neuronais convolucionais; Arquitetura neuronal

In areas where waste production is excessive, sometimes improper deposition occurs around the garbage equipment, requiring more effort from the waste collection teams. In this dissertation an image recognition system is proposed for the detection and classification of waste outside the existing waste disposal equipment. The main motivation is to facilitate the work of waste collection in the city of Lisbon, which is done by the teams of the Lisbon Waste Collection Centers. In order to help the waste collection planning, the collection team inspectors in partnership with the Lisbon City Council created a repository with several datasets, which they named, 'LxDataLab'. The collected images go through the pre-processing process and finally are submitted to waste detection and classification, through deep learning networks. In this sense, a classification and identification method using neural networks for image analysis is proposed: the first approach consisted in training a deep learning convolutional neural network (CNN) specifically developed to classify residues; in a second approach a CNN was trained using a pre-trained MobileNetV2 model, which only the last layer was trained. The training in this approach was faster compared to the previous approach, as were the performance values in detecting the class and the amount of residues in the images. The hit rate for the classification of the selected debris varied between 80%, for test set. After the detection and classification of the residues in the images are recognized, annotations are generated on the images.