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I suspect it could be useful for some types of recycling, but there are already a lot of tricks employed to separate dissimilar materials - metals and paper pro
by blacksmith_tb 10y ago
I suspect it could be useful for some types of recycling, but there are already a lot of tricks employed to separate dissimilar materials - metals and paper products sink, plastics float, field effect and or magnets can move metals, etc. Using CV to recognize materials would be overkill by comparison. But I find watching the bot sort soothing...
- jarvist 10y agoI believe WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) recycling plants use computer vision directly. Recycling plans having multiple optical units with compressed air to then redirect the route of identified items, but I don't know whether this is image recognition or Raman / IR to identify the material. Certainly to differentiate plastics, it will be Raman / IR. An info vid on a recycling plant, showing the sort of scale and speed of sorting:- https://youtu.be/SIVKmwzWSuc?t=1m14s https://youtu.be/SIVKmwzWSuc?t=1m14s