PGFD-YOLO: A dual-modal object detection framework with progressive gated fusion and foreground-guided distillation.

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Τίτλος: PGFD-YOLO: A dual-modal object detection framework with progressive gated fusion and foreground-guided distillation.
Συγγραφείς: Liu S; School of information, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, China. Electronic address: 2043205000194@ynnu.edu.cn., Yun L; Department of Education of Yunnan Province, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, China. Electronic address: yunlijun@ynnu.edu.cn.
Πηγή: Journal of environmental management [J Environ Manage] 2026 Jun 15; Vol. 410, pp. 130053. Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 May 28.
Τύπος έκδοσης: Journal Article
Γλώσσα: English
Στοιχεία περιοδικού: Publisher: Academic Press Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 0401664 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1095-8630 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 03014797 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Environ Manage Subsets: MEDLINE
Imprint Name(s): Original Publication: London ; New York, Academic Press.
Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): Waste Management*/methods , Detection Algorithms*
Περίληψη: Effective waste classification is essential for improving resource recovery and reducing landfill burden. However, existing methods predominantly rely on single RGB imaging, which is insufficient for distinguishing overlapping, transparent, or similarly colored waste items. This study proposes a dual-modal waste detection model, PGFD-YOLO, based on YOLOv11, which integrates RGB and depth information without requiring dedicated depth sensors. Depth maps were generated from standard RGB images using monocular depth estimation (Depth Anything V2). Three architectural innovations were introduced: LKC3-F for lightweight dual-stream feature extraction via partial convolution, QAT-PSA for high-level semantic refinement via quad-enhanced attention, and PCGF for stable cross-modal integration via progressive zero-initialized gating. A foreground-guided cross-scale knowledge distillation strategy further improved the accuracy without increasing the inference cost. Experiments on the TACO-10 dataset with 10-fold cross-validation show that PGFD-YOLO achieves mAP50 of 22.3±0.8% and mAP50:95 of 16.5±0.7%, improving over the single-modal baseline by 7.7% and 7.2% absolute, and outperforming naive early and late fusion strategies by 8.1% and 6.4%, respectively. A projected deployment analysis estimates approximately 70%-75% labor cost reduction and $91,700-167,400 annual recyclable recovery value from a medium-scale facility. The model operates at 73.6 FPS, thereby meeting the real-time waste sorting requirements.
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Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
Contributed Indexing: Keywords: Deep learning; Knowledge distillation; PGFD-YOLO; RGB-D fusion; Waste classification; YOLOv11
Entry Date(s): Date Created: 20260528 Date Completed: 20260613 Latest Revision: 20260621
Update Code: 20260621
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2026.130053
PMID: 42208255
Βάση Δεδομένων: MEDLINE