YOLO-based network fusion for riverine floating debris monitoring system

Riverine floating debris has been one of the major challenges and a well-known issue across the globe for decades. To mitigate this problem, sources of debris and their pathways to the riverine environment need to be identified and quantified. The scope of this study is to obtain visual information of floating debris which is crucial in developing a robotic platform for riverine management system. Therefore, an object detector using You Only Look Once version 4 (YOLOv4) algorithm is developed to detect floating debris for the riverine monitoring system. The debris detection system is trained on five object classes such as styrofoam, plastic bags, plastic bottle, aluminium can and plastic container. After the first training is conducted, image augmentation technique is implemented to increase training and validation datasets. Finally, the performance of the proposed debris detection system is evaluated based on the highest mean average precision (mAP) weight file, classification accuracy, precision and recall

Proceedings of International Technical Postgraduate Conference 2022

This conference proceedings contains articles on the various research ideas of the academic & research communities presented at the International Technical Postgraduate Conference 2022 (TECH POST 2022) that was held at Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 24-25 September 2022. TECH POST 2022 was organized by the Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya. The theme of the conference is “Embracing Innovative Engineering Technologies Towards a Sustainable Future”.  TECH POST 2022 conference is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research from five main disciplines of Engineering: Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering. The objectives of TECH POST 2022 are to bring together innovative researchers from all engineering disciplines to a common forum, promote R&D activities in Engineering, and promote the dissemination of scientific knowledge and research know-how between researchers, engineers, and students. Conference Title: International Technical Postgraduate Conference 2022Conference Acronym: TECH POST 2022Conference Date: 24-25 September 2022Conference Location: Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia (Hybrid Mode)Conference Organizers: Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia