MUMBAI, India, Jan. 8 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202511102483 A) filed by Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, on Oct. 24, 2025, for 'automated waste counting system for watershed macrotrash contamination measurement.'
Inventor(s) include Meghna Gupta; Archana Sehgal; Vikas Verma; and Preeti Khurana.
The application for the patent was published on Dec. 12, under issue no. 50/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An automated waste counting system for watershed macrotrash contamination measurement, comprising a camera-based sensing module 101 configured to capture video or image data of plastic bottles advecting down rivers and streams, an object detection module 102 employing a YOLOv8 deep learning model trained on multiple labeled trash and plastic bottle image datasets to identify plastic bottles with high accuracy, an object tracking module 103 using the Norfair tracking means to track detected plastic bottles across video frames, a post-processing module 104 configured to filter out false positive detections from the object detection and tracking outputs, wherein the system provides accurate counts of plastic bottles in flowing water environments, reducing the need for labor-intensive manual counting processes."
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