arxivcs.CV2026-07-21
Synthetic and Derived Training Images for Campus Waste Detection: A Multi-Seed Evaluation with YOLOv8n
Ali Behbahani, Newsha Javanmardi, Shahriar Ahmed, Ling Chen, Phouvadeth Vathana
Incorrect disposal can contaminate campus recycling streams, and a bin-mounted camera could provide feedback as an item is discarded. We evaluated whether synthetic and derived images improve a YOLOv8n detector for this view. The real dataset contained 148 campus photographs: 86…