2024/04/02 by Matías Molina, Molina, Matias, Rita P. Ribeiro +5 · 1 citation
Engineering · Environmental Science · #Advanced Image Fusion Techniques #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2404.01790
openalex publication_date 2024/04/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Illegal landfills are a critical issue due to their environmental, economic, and public health impacts. This study leverages aerial imagery for environmental crime monitoring. While advances in artificial intelligence and computer vision hold promise, the challenge lies in training models with high-resolution literature datasets and adapting them to open-access low-resolution images. Considering the substantial quality differences and limited annotation, this research explores the adaptability of models across these domains. Motivated by the necessity for a comprehensive evaluation of waste detection algorithms, it advocates cross-domain classification and super-resolution enhancement to analyze the impact of different image resolutions on waste classification as an evaluation to combat the proliferation of illegal landfills. We observed performance improvements by enhancing image quality but noted an influence on model sensitivity, necessitating careful threshold fine-tuning.