The linear take-make-dispose paradigm at the foundations of our traditional economy is proving to be unsustainable due to waste pollution and material supply uncertainties. Hence, increasing the circularity of material flows is necessary. In this paper, we make a step towards circular healthcare by developing several vision systems targeting three main circular economy tasks: resources mapping and quantification, waste sorting, and disassembly. The performance of our systems demonstrates that representation-learning vision can improve the recovery chain, where autonomous systems are key enablers due to the contamination risks. We also published two fully-annotated datasets for image segmentation and for key-point tracking in disassembly operations of inhalers and glucose meters. The datasets and source code are publicly available.
Probing CLIP's Comprehension of 360-Degree Textual and Visual Semantics
Department of Statistical Science, University College London, UK（伦敦大学统计科学系）；School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow, UK（格拉斯哥大学数学与统计学学院）；Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, UK（巴斯大学计算机科学系）
Real-Time Pill Identification for the Visually Impaired Using Deep Learning
San Francisco Bay University（旧金山湾大学）；University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；University of Southampton（南安普顿大学）；Stevens Institute of Technology（史蒂文斯理工学院）；Georgia Institute of Technology（佐治亚理工学院）
ERVQA: A Dataset to Benchmark the Readiness of Large Vision Language Models in Hospital Environments
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur（印度理工学院卡拉格普尔分校）；All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalyani（卡里亚尼全印度医学科学研究所）；All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Deoghar（迪奥加尔全印度医学科学研究所）；Dr. B.C. Roy Multi-Speciality Medical Research Centre, IIT Kharagpur（印度理工学院卡拉格普尔分校Dr. B.C. Roy多专科医学研究中心）
VT-Bench: A Unified Benchmark for Visual-Tabular Multi-Modal Learning
National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China（新型软件技术国家重点实验室，南京大学，中国）；School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University, China（智能科学与技术学院，南京大学，中国）；School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University, China（人工智能学院，南京大学，中国）
