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The accurate and effective classification of household solid waste (HSW) is an indispensable component in the current procedure of waste disposal. In this paper, a novel ensemble learning model called EnCNN-UPMWS, which is based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and an unequal precision measurement weighting strategy (UPMWS), is proposed for the classification of HSW via waste images. First, three state-of-the-art CNNs, namely GoogLeNet, ResNet-50, and MobileNetV2, are used as ingredient classifiers to separately predict and obtain three predicted probability vectors, which are significant elements that affect the prediction performance by providing complementary information about the patterns to be classified. Then, the UPMWS is introduced to determine the weight coefficients of the ensemble models. The actual one-hot encoding labels of the validation set and the predicted probability vectors from the CNN ensemble are creatively used to calculate the weights for each classifier during the training phase, which can bring the aggregated prediction vector closer to the target label and improve the performance of the ensemble model. The proposed model was applied to two datasets, namely TrashNet (an open-access dataset) and FourTrash, which was constructed by collecting a total of 47,332 common HSW images containing four types of waste (wet waste, recyclables, harmful waste, and dry waste). The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in terms of its accuracy and F1-scores. Moreover, it was found that the UPMWS can simply and effectively enhance the performance of the ensemble learning model, and has potential applications in similar tasks of classification via ensemble learning.

EnCNN-UPMWS: Waste Classification by a CNN Ensemble Using the UPM Weighting Strategy