Electronic Science and Technology ›› 2025, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (4): 1-9.doi: 10.16180/j.cnki.issn1007-7820.2025.04.001

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Outdoor Garbage Detection and Recognition Based on Dual Branch Networks

ZHAO Wenqi1, ZHANG Lixin2(), KAN Xi2, ZHENG Haoren1   

  1. 1. School of Automation,Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology,Nanjing 210044,China
    2. School of IoT Engineering,Wuxi University,Wuxi 214063,China
  • Received:2023-10-17 Revised:2023-10-24 Online:2025-04-15 Published:2025-04-16
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(42105143);Basic Science Research General Project of Higher Education Institutions in Jiangsu(580221016)

Abstract:

The existing outdoor waste detection algorithms do not fully consider the advantages and disadvantages of CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) and Transformer in feature extraction, which limits the overall performance of the network. This study proposes a two-branch fusion network detection algorithm composed of CNN and Transformer. In the coding stage, a two-branch backbone network is constructed based on the advantages of CNN and Transformer to extract the feature information of the original image. Multi-scale convolutional module and multi-scale pooling module are used to eliminate the differences in dimension and semantics of extracted feature information, and the loss of detail information in deep neural network is reduced by strengthening feature extraction network. Six types of outdoor garbage images are collected, and a data set of garbage images with complex background is built to verify the performance of the proposed algorithm in outdoor garbage detection and recognition task. The experimental results show that the mAP(mean Average Precision) of the proposed algorithm on this data set is improved by about 5% when compared with the latest target detection algorithm. In order to verify the generalization performance of the proposed algorithm, a generalization experiment is carried out on the Huawei garbage classification challenge cup data set, and the experimental results show that mAP of the proposed algorithm is improved by about 2% when compared with the latest object detection algorithm.

Key words: garbage pollution, automatic detection and recognition, CNN, Transformer, dual branch fusion network, multi-scale convolution, multi-scale pooling, feature information

CLC Number: 

  • TP391.4