TrashSort.ai

Landfill Item
Recyclable Item

Inspiration

Sustainability
Image recognition
Automate trash and recycling separation

What it does

Our app takes a photo from either your computer or a file stored locally on your machine and uses a google Gemini pipeline to identify an object in a photo, and give advice and proper procedures on how best to recycle said item.

How we built it

We started with a brainstorming session, eliminating the majority of ideas before falling on this one. We then switched gears into a FIGMA design, determining a good basic layout, then began our implementation, first starting with resnet-50 yangy66-garbage-classification google/vit-base-patch16-224 for image recognition, but then eventually pivoted into Gemini.

Challenges we ran into

We were generally inexperienced especially in front-end work & creating software from start to finish
Most of the image recognition models were generally inaccurate
Troubleshooting
Google Gemini limit
Project setup
AI debugging issues

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We finished the project on time
We came up with an idea very quickly
Two of us had never done a hackathon before
We properly had a small enough idea without letting scope-creep hurt our progress
We participated in all the events