整合8.9万张垃圾图像,构建统一可复用的全球垃圾分类数据集。
GlobalWasteData: A Large-Scale, Integrated Dataset for Robust Waste Classification and Environmental Monitoring
- 融合多个公开数据集,统一标签与格式,提升数据一致性。
- 包含14大类68小类,覆盖更广场景,类别分布更均衡。
- 适合做环保监测、智能回收等应用的研究者使用。
日益增长的垃圾量对环境构成威胁,亟需高效分类技术。当前人工智能模型的效果受限于公开数据集的质量与可用性。尽管已有多个垃圾分类数据集,但普遍存在碎片化、标注不一致、偏倚于特定环境等问题,类别名称、标注格式、图像条件和类别分布差异大,难以合并或训练泛化能力强的模型。为此,我们提出全球垃圾数据集(GlobalWasteData, GWD),包含89,807张图像,覆盖14个主类别和68个子类别。通过整合多个公开数据集,GWD实现了统一标注、增强域多样性与更平衡的类别分布,支持鲁棒且泛化的垃圾识别模型开发。经质量过滤、去重和元数据生成等预处理,数据可靠性进一步提升。该数据集为机器学习在环境监测、回收自动化与垃圾识别中的应用提供坚实基础,已公开以促进后续研究与可复现性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The growing amount of waste is a problem for the environment that requires efficient sorting techniques for various kinds of waste. An automated waste classification system is used for this purpose. The effectiveness of these Artificial Intelligence (AI) models depends on the quality and accessibility of publicly available datasets, which provide the basis for training and analyzing classification algorithms. Although several public waste classification datasets exist, they remain fragmented, inconsistent, and biased toward specific environments. Differences in class names, annotation formats, image conditions, and class distributions make it difficult to combine these datasets or train models that generalize well to real world scenarios. To address these issues, we introduce the GlobalWasteData (GWD) archive, a large scale dataset of 89,807 images across 14 main categories, annotated with 68 distinct subclasses. We compile this novel integrated GWD archive by merging multiple publicly available datasets into a single, unified resource. This GWD archive offers consistent labeling, improved domain diversity, and more balanced class representation, enabling the development of robust and generalizable waste recognition models. Additional preprocessing steps such as quality filtering, duplicate removal, and metadata generation further improve dataset reliability. Overall, this dataset offers a strong foundation for Machine Learning (ML) applications in environmental monitoring, recycling automation, and waste identification, and is publicly available to promote future research and reproducibility.
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