WALL.E: An AI and Cloud-Based Waste Management System with Multi-Scale Object Detection and Geospatial Hotspot Analytics

The WALL.E Waste Classification System demon-strates an effective framework for modern smart city sanitation by combining deep learning, cloud sys-tems, and area-wise geographic analytics. By uti-lizing a multi-scale Faster R-CNN and Feature Pyra-mid Network pipeline, the system reliably automates waste categorization. Decoupling computer vision processing from geospatial aggregation allows munic-ipal authorities to replace manual, reactive workflows with data-driven urban planning, identifying chronic waste hotspots and optimizing resource distribution across the city.

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