Super-Resolution Analysis for Landfill Waste Classification
It addresses environmental crime monitoring for authorities and environmental agencies, but is incremental as it focuses on adapting existing methods to cross-domain image resolution differences.
This study tackled the problem of illegal landfill detection by evaluating how super-resolution enhancement of low-resolution aerial images affects waste classification performance, observing performance improvements but noting impacts on model sensitivity that require threshold fine-tuning.
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.