Acoustic garbage classification method using one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D-CNN)

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11835489-B2
Application number	US-202017640340-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 18, 2020
Priority date	Dec 24, 2019
Publication date	Dec 5, 2023
Grant date	Dec 5, 2023

Abstract

An acoustic garbage classification method using a one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D-CNN) is provided. The method includes: acquiring sound signals generated by falling garbage; preprocessing the sound signals; acquiring and preprocessing the sound signals of different types of garbage, building a sound database for garbage classification, and establishing and training a 1D-CNN model; acquiring a sound signal of garbage to be classified, and inputting the sound signal into the trained 1D-CNN for garbage classification to obtain a classification result. The present disclosure is helpful to assist people in accurate garbage classification, improves the accuracy of garbage classification and recycling, and has high practical and popularization value.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An acoustic garbage classification method using a one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D-CNN), comprising the following steps:
(A) acquiring sound signals generated by falling garbage;
(B) preprocessing the sound signals;
(C) acquiring and preprocessing the sound signals of different types of garbage, building a sound database for a garbage classification, and establishing and training a 1D-CNN model; and
(D) acquiring a sound signal of garbage to be classified, and inputting the sound signal of the garbage to be classified into a trained 1D-CNN model for the garbage classification to obtain a classification result;
wherein in step (A), the sound signals produced by the falling garbage are generated by an impact of the falling garbage freely falling to a plate, and are recorded by a single-channel microphone; the sound signals are sampled at a frequency of 44,100 Hz; and the above process is repeated a plurality of times for each of different types of garbage to acquire multiple sound signals,
wherein in step (B), the preprocessing comprises: intercepting each of the sound signals for an effective duration of 120 ms, the effective duration of 120 ms starts from a peak of each of the sound signals and ends at 120 ms backward, and
wherein in step (C), the 1D-CNN model comprises an input layer, a convolutional layer, a pooling layer, a fully connected layer and an output layer; during a training of the 1D-CNN model, the input layer is used to input preprocessed sound signals labeled with a garbage type; the convolutional layer performs a convolution operation and a feature extraction on output data of the input layer; a rectified linear unit (ReLU) activation function is used to enhance a nonlinear performance of the 1D-CNN model; a max pooling layer performs a feature dimensionality reduction, a network parameter reduction and an overfitting; and the fully connected layer and the output layer respectively perform the garbage classification and output the classification result.

Assignees

• Univ Zhejiang

Inventors

• Zou Jun
• Lu Gang
• Wang Yuanbin

Classifications

• G01N29/4481 Primary

  Neural networks · CPC title

• G01N29/04

  Analysing solids (using acoustic emission techniques G01N29/14) · CPC title

• G01N29/4454

  Signal recognition, e.g. specific values or portions, signal events, signatures · CPC title

• H04R1/08

  Mouthpieces; {Microphones;} Attachments therefor · CPC title

• G06F18/24 Primary

  Classification techniques · CPC title