diff --git a/_portfolio/01smart-compost-bin.md b/_portfolio/01smart-compost-bin.md index f9da9a1ac4d15..ad9840cee559c 100644 --- a/_portfolio/01smart-compost-bin.md +++ b/_portfolio/01smart-compost-bin.md @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ --- title: "Smart Compost Bin" -excerpt: "Developing a low-cost, 3D printed device for automatically measuring food waste using state-of-the-art computer vision models
" +excerpt: "Developing a low-cost, 3D printed device for automatically measuring food waste using state-of-the-art computer vision models
" collection: portfolio --- Food waste continues to strain the global food supply even as millions struggle with food insecurity. A lack of effective food waste measurement solutions obstructs domain experts from guiding policy towards sustainable food resource management. We propose a system for measuring household food waste using an AI-enabled compost bin. Food waste identification can be framed as a computer vision task, however no public datasets of labeled post-consumer food items have been released to date. To power the development of computer vision models for food waste identification, we design a compost bin equipped with imaging sensors capable of capturing 2D, 3D, and thermal information about discarded food. This device encourages sustainable composting practices while building a novel dataset of commingled food waste images annotated with descriptive labels and segmentation masks. We design a volunteer-driven study to deploy fifty of these devices in households across the state of Oregon. -![Bin](/images/bin_partial_open.jpg) +![Bin](/images/bin_partial_open.jpg){:width="60%"} Our research has three primary objectives: @@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ pilot study with fifty households to annotate images of food waste using our com 3. We will use our dataset to train a computer vision model to automatically measure household food waste by segmenting disposed items from images of commingled food refuse -![Example Image](/images/compost_segmented.jpg) +![Example Image](/images/compost_segmented.jpg){:width="100%"} -![System Diagram](/images/cloud_pipeline_v4.png) +![System Diagram](/images/cloud_pipeline_v4.png){:width="75%"} You can see our first publication, describing the design and implementation of the Smart Compost Bin [here](https://aidanbeery.com/files/cofi_2024.pdf).