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I built a YOLO11n waste detector and learned that more data was not always better

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I’m a high-school student from Germany and I’ve been working on MIRA, a waste-detection project for a future sorting robot. I started with a custom CNN, then tried MobileNetV2, YOLOv8n, and YOLO11n. One of my early experiments looked good until I noticed that some automatically generated boxes cove…

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  1. 2026-08-21 16:11 · r/computervision
    I built a YOLO11n waste detector and learned that more data was not always better

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