Waste Detection Drone

A YOLOv5 model running against the live video feed from a DJI Tello, detecting litter from the air in real time. The constraint that shaped the project was the platform: the Tello is a small consumer drone with a low-resolution camera, limited flight time, and no onboard compute worth speaking of, so inference happens off-board against a streamed feed.

That splits the problem in two — keeping detection accurate on small, motion-blurred objects viewed from above, and keeping the stream-and-inference loop tight enough that results still mean something by the time they arrive. A collaborator project.