Smart waste classification in IoT-enabled smart cities using VGG16 and Cat Swarm Optimized random forest

• Akshat Gaurav,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Ronin Institute, Montclair, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Brij Bhooshan Gupta ,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bbgupta@asia.edu.tw

  Affiliations Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology (SCIT), Symbiosis International University, Pune, India, School of Cybersecurity, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, Kyung Hee University, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4929-4698

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• Varsha Arya,

  Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Software, Visualization

  Affiliations Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong SAR, China, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun, India

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• Razaz Waheeb Attar,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software

  Affiliation Management Department, College of Business Administration, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Shavi Bansal,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations Insights2Techinfo, Jaipur, India, UCRD, Chandigarh University, Chandigarh, India

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• Ahmed Alhomoud,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Computer Sciences, College of Science, Northern Border University, Rafha, Saudi Arabia

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• Kwok Tai Chui

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong, SAR, China

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