Realization of an Automatic Material Recognition System for Waste Recycling
摘要
This research focuses on the development of an automatic system to classify disposable waste, based on the combination of a dual-band photodetector array operating in visible and short-wave-infrared wavelengths with machine learning algorithms. The identification is performed through spatially resolved spectral reflectivity of real waste samples for a total of seven classes: four plastic polymers (PET, HDPE, LDPE, PP), paper, aluminum and glass. Several classification algorithms were tested, with the best results obtained using Bagged Trees model combined with preprocessing and features selection techniques. Accuracies of approximately 95 and 80% were achieved for three (PET, HDPE, PP) and seven classes, respectively.