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SpotGarbage: Smartphone app to detect garbage using deep learning
Gaurav Mittal, Kaushal Yagnik B., Mohit Garg,
Published in Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
2016
Pages: 940 - 945
Abstract
Maintaining a clean and hygienic civic environment is an indispensable yet formidable task, especially in developing countries. With the aim of engaging citizens to track and report on their neighborhoods, this paper presents a novel smartphone app, called SpotGarbage, which detects and coarsely segments garbage regions in a user-clicked geo-tagged image. The app utilizes the proposed deep architecture of fully convolutional networks for detecting garbage in images. The model has been trained on a newly introduced Garbage In Images (GINI) dataset, achieving a mean accuracy of 87:69%. The paper also proposes optimizations in the network architecture resulting in a reduction of 87:9% in memory usage and 96:8% in prediction time with no loss in accuracy, facilitating its usage in resource constrained smartphones.
About the journal
JournalUbiComp 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Open AccessNo