I have created IWMC (Intelligent Waste Material Classification)

[xMerCx]

@garythung

Hi Gary,

First of all I need to thank you and Mindy Yang for making this dataset public along with the source code. As you may know by the title, I have created a project called IWMC which utilizes a number of datasets. The main contributions coming from TrashNet and TACO. When I went through your work, I got to know that the work of TrashNet has been formed into a report pdf instead of a paper that is published in a journal or presented in a conference. The main thing is published here rather but it still arguably has gain a lot of attention which is actually remarkable considering the conventional approach of conference or journal, you both decided to host it in a github repo and in the Stanford internal archive which is understandable . I have read some 50 research papers regarding about AI-based waste classification using CNNs and almost all of them point to the work of TrashNet as being foundational to their success of finding novelties in this field. So, my question is why not present this work the conventional way? why a github repo instead, what was the driving factor and the main question is can I do the same for my own project as well?

Thank you,
Sachith

[Alvinidea]

收到！谢谢！

[garythung]

Thanks for your note. It was a class project and the primary contribution was the dataset. The easiest way to share this where it would be easily accessible and long lived was by hosting it on GitHub and HuggingFace.

For your project the same line of thinking applies—who is it for and how do you best reach them.

[xMerCx]

Much needed insight. Thank you so much.