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    A Lightweight YOLOv8n-Based Binary Waste Classification Model for Autonomous Garbage-Collecting Robots
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2026-07-02) Perera W.B.N.; Sendanayaka H.K; Nuwanthi B.D.T.; Jayasekara R.G.S; Lokuliyana, S; Silva, S
    Efficient waste classification is critical for automation in modern waste management systems, especially in places where it is hard to use manual classification. In this work, a model for waste and non-waste classification based on the YOLOv8n framework, known for high efficiency and applicability for embedded systems, is designed. For this purpose, a customized dataset was collected using real photos under different lighting conditions, different backgrounds, and with varying objects to reflect a more realistic environment. The training process included augmentation, normalization, and hyperparameters tuning to improve the efficiency of the model. Evaluation metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, and confusion matrix were used. According to the experimental results, the developed model provides an accuracy of 92.5% and F1 score of 0.94 with maintaining fast inference performance for real-time applications. The designed framework aims to become a module in an autonomous waste collecting robot to validate objects before manipulating them by robots, ensuring reliable and efficient real-world system performance.
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    Gesture driven smart home solution for bedridden people
    (Association for Computing Machinery, 2020-09-21) Jayaweera, N; Gamage, B; Samaraweera, M; Liyanage, S; Lokuliyana, S; Kuruppu, T
    Conversion of ordinary houses into smart homes has been a rising trend for past years. Smart house development is based on the enhancement of the quality of the daily activities of normal people. But many smart homes have not been designed in a way that is user friendly for differently-abled people such as immobile, bedridden (disabled people with at least one hand movable). Due to negligence and forgetfulness, there are cases where the electrical devices are left switched on, regardless of any necessity. It is one of the most occurred examples of domestic energy wastage. To overcome those challenges, this research represents the improved smart home design: MobiGO that uses cameras to capture gestures, smart sockets to deliver gesture-driven outputs to home appliances, etc. The camera captures the gestures done by the user and the system processes those images through advanced gesture recognition and image processing technologies. The commands relevant to the gesture are sent to the specific appliance through a specific IoT device attached to them. The basic literature survey content, which contains technical words, is analyzed using Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Image Processing, Gesture recognition, smart homes, IoT. Finally, the authors conclude that the MobiGO solution proposes a smart home system that is safer and easier for people with disabilities