Managing Household Waste through Transfer Learning

2024/01/27 by Suman Kunwar, Kunwar, Suman · 2 citations
Environmental Science · #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Municipal Solid Waste Management

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2402.09437

openalex publication_date 2024/01/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

As the world continues to face the challenges of climate change, it is crucial to consider the environmental impact of the technologies we use. In this study, we investigate the performance and computational carbon emissions of various transfer learning models for garbage classification. We examine the MobileNet, ResNet50, ResNet101, and EfficientNetV2S and EfficientNetV2M models. Our findings indicate that the EfficientNetV2 family achieves the highest accuracy, recall, f1-score, and IoU values. However, the EfficientNetV2M model requires more time and produces higher carbon emissions. ResNet50 outperforms ResNet110 in terms of accuracy, recall, f1-score, and IoU, but it has a larger carbon footprint. We conclude that EfficientNetV2S is the most sustainable and accurate model with 96.41% accuracy. Our research highlights the significance of considering the ecological impact of machine learning models in garbage classification.

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