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An Orwellian Approach to the Litter Problem

Using computer vision to detect someone missing the garbage

Tim Chinenov
Towards Data Science
6 min readMar 19, 2019

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Anyone who has lived in an urban environment knows how filthy it can be. No matter the effort exerted by municipalities, trash finds a way to roll through cities like tumble weeds. Simple solutions involve sending individuals with trash pickers to decontaminate city streets. Unfortunately…

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