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Deep Meta-Learner Stacking with Explainable AI for Vision-Based Plastic Waste Classification

Sep 2026 · SN Computer Science · Vol 7 · 0 citations · 33 references

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This work introduced a vision-based waste classification system that relies on Deep Meta-Learner Stacking with Explainable AI (DMLSE) to merge the unique feature representations of a BasicCNN, VGG16, ResNet50V2, and MobileNetV2 across the synthetic, garbage, and waste classification datasets.

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