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EcoBin: A Two-Stage Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Contamination-Aware Waste Classification

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arXiv:2606. 15547v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Waste classification models have become highly accurate at sorting waste, often exceeding 95% on benchmark datasets.

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