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Resource Constrained Semantic Segmentation for Waste Sorting

30 October 2023
Elisa Cascina
Andrea Pellegrino
Lorenzo Tozzi
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Abstract

This work addresses the need for efficient waste sorting strategies in Materials Recovery Facilities to minimize the environmental impact of rising waste. We propose resource-constrained semantic segmentation models for segmenting recyclable waste in industrial settings. Our goal is to develop models that fit within a 10MB memory constraint, suitable for edge applications with limited processing capacity. We perform the experiments on three networks: ICNet, BiSeNet (Xception39 backbone), and ENet. Given the aforementioned limitation, we implement quantization and pruning techniques on the broader nets, achieving positive results while marginally impacting the Mean IoU metric. Furthermore, we propose a combination of Focal and Lov\ász loss that addresses the implicit class imbalance resulting in better performance compared with the Cross-entropy loss function.

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