Computer vision to recognize construction waste compositions: A novel boundary-aware transformer (BAT) model

被引:54
作者
Dong, Zhiming [1 ]
Chen, Junjie [1 ]
Lu, Weisheng [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Hong Kong, Dept Real Estate & Construct, Pokfulam Rd, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
关键词
Circular economy; Waste recycling; Construction and demolition waste; Artificial intelligence; Material recognition; Semantic segmentation; NEURAL-NETWORK; SYSTEM; CLASSIFICATION;
D O I
10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114405
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Recognition of construction waste compositions using computer vision (CV) is increasingly explored to enable its subsequent management, e.g., determining chargeable levy at disposal facilities or waste sorting using robot arms. However, the applicability of existing CV-enabled construction waste recognition in real-life scenarios is limited by their relatively low accuracy, characterized by a failure to distinguish boundaries among different waste materials. This paper aims to propose a novel boundary-aware Transformer (BAT) model for fine-grained composition recognition of construction waste mixtures. First, a pre-processing workflow is devised to separate the hard-to-recognize edges from the background. Second, a Transformer structure with a self-designed cascade decoder is developed to segment different waste materials from construction waste mixtures. Finally, a learning-enabled edge refinement scheme is used to fine-tune the ignored boundaries, further boosting the segmentation precision. The performance of the BAT model was evaluated on a benchmark dataset comprising nine types of materials in a cluttered and mixture state. It recorded a 5.48% improvement of MIoU (mean intersection over union) and 3.65% of MAcc (Mean Accuracy) against the baseline. The research contributes to the body of interdisciplinary knowledge by presenting a novel deep learning model for construction waste material semantic segmentation. It can also expedite the applications of CV in construction waste management to achieve a circular economy.
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