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In order to effectively achieve garbage classification, a lightweight garbage object detection model based on deep learning techniques was designed and developed in this study, which can locate and classify garbage objects in real-time using embedded devices. Focusing on the problems of low accuracy and poor real-time performances in garbage classification, we proposed a lightweight garbage object detection model, YOLOG (YOLO for garbage detection), which is based on accurate local receptive field dilation and can run on embedded devices at high speed and with high performance. YOLOG improves on YOLOv4 in three key ways, including the design of DCSPResNet with accurate local receptive field expansion based on dilated\u2013deformable convolution, network structure simplification, and the use of new activation functions. We collected the domestic garbage image dataset, then trained and tested the model on it. Finally, in order to compare the performance difference between YOLOG and existing state-of-the-art algorithms, we conducted comparison experiments using a uniform data set training model. The experimental results showed that YOLOG achieved AP0.5 of 94.58% and computation of 6.05 Gflops, thus outperformed YOLOv3, YOLOv4, YOLOv4-Tiny, and YOLOv5s in terms of comprehensive performance indicators. The network proposed in this paper can detect domestic garbage accurately and rapidly, provide a foundation for future academic research and engineering applications.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22197455","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,10]],"date-time":"2022-10-10T03:07:28Z","timestamp":1665371248000},"page":"7455","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":33,"title":["Towards Lightweight Neural Networks for Garbage Object Detection"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8825-5141","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xinchen","family":"Cai","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China"}]},{"given":"Feng","family":"Shuang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China"}]},{"given":"Xiangming","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Physical Science and Technology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Yanhui","family":"Duan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China"}]},{"given":"Guanyuan","family":"Cheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2019","DOI":"10.1016\/j.envpol.2019.113707","article-title":"China is implementing \u201cGarbage Classification\u201d action","volume":"259","author":"Tong","year":"2020","journal-title":"Environ. 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