An Improved Soft-YOLOX for Garbage Quantity Identification

Urban waterlogging is mainly caused by garbage clogging the sewer manhole covers. If the amount of garbage at a sewer manhole cover can be detected, together with an early warning signal when the amount is large enough, it will be of great significance in preventing urban waterlogging from occurring. Based on the YOLOX algorithm, this paper accomplishes identifying manhole covers and garbage and building a flood control system that can automatically recognize and monitor the accumulation of garbage. This system can also display the statistical results and send early warning information. During garbage identification, it can lead to inaccurate counting and a missed detection if the garbage is occluded. To reduce the occurrence of missed detections as much as possible and improve the performance of detection models, Soft-YOLOX, a method using a new detection model for counting, was used as it can prevent the occurrence of missed detections by reducing the scores of adjacent detection frames reasonably. The Soft-YOLOX improves the accuracy of garbage counting. Compared with the traditional YOLOX, the mAP value of Soft-YOLOX for garbage identification increased from 89.72% to 91.89%.