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ArticlePloS one2025

Smart waste classification in IoT-enabled smart cities using VGG16 and Cat Swarm Optimized random forest.

Akshat Gaurav, Brij Bhooshan Gupta, Varsha Arya, Razaz Waheeb Attar, Shavi Bansal, Ahmed Alhomoud, Kwok Tai Chui

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Article in PloS one, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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7 authors.

Akshat GauravRonin Institute, Montclair, New Jersey, United States of America.
Brij Bhooshan GuptaDepartment of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0003-4929-4698
Varsha AryaHong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Razaz Waheeb AttarManagement Department, College of Business Administration, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Shavi BansalInsights2Techinfo, Jaipur, India.
Ahmed AlhomoudDepartment of Computer Sciences, College of Science, Northern Border University, Rafha, Saudi Arabia.
Kwok Tai ChuiHong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong, SAR, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Effective waste management is becoming a crucial component of sustainable urban development as smart technologies are used by smart cities more and more. Smart trash categorization systems provided by IoT may greatly enhance garbage sorting and recycling mechanisms. In this context, this work presents a waste categorization model based on transfer learning using the VGG16 model for feature extraction and a Random Forest classifier tuned by Cat Swarm Optimization (CSO). On a Kaggle garbage categorization dataset, the model outperformed conventional models like SVM, XGBoost, and logistic regression. With an accuracy of 85% and a high AUC of 0.85 the Random Forest model shows better performance in precision, recall, and F1-score as compared to standard machine learning models.

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Waste ManagementAlgorithmsCitiesMachine LearningRandom Forest

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PMID40019915
PMCPMC11870384

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