AI RESEARCH

Evaluating Large and Lightweight Vision Models for Irregular Component Segmentation in E-Waste Disassembly

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2603.27441v1 Announce Type: cross Precise segmentation of irregular and densely arranged components is essential for robotic disassembly and material recovery in electronic waste (e-waste) recycling. This study evaluates the impact of model architecture and scale on segmentation performance by comparing SAM2, a transformer-based vision model, with the lightweight YOLOv8 network.