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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Annals</journal-id>
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<journal-title>ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
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<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9050</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-annals-XII-4-W2-2026-9-2026</article-id>
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<article-title>Zero-Shot Detection for Automatic Mapping of Illegal Roadside Waste Dumps from Volunteered Street-View Imagery</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>As Samee</surname>
<given-names>Al Maimun</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Arzoumanidis</surname>
<given-names>Lukas</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6668-1695</ext-link>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Nguyen</surname>
<given-names>Huynh Duc An Son</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8711-1587</ext-link>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Dehbi</surname>
<given-names>Youness</given-names>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Computational Methods Lab, HafenCity University, Hamburg, Germany</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>28</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>XII-4/W2-2026</volume>
<fpage>9</fpage>
<lpage>16</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Al Maimun As Samee et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Illegal roadside waste dumping represents a persistent urban environmental problem, particularly in rapidly growing cities. Conventional monitoring approaches based on manual field surveys and mapping are labor-intensive, costly, and difficult to scale. This study presents an automated framework for detecting and mapping illegal roadside waste using volunteered street-view imagery and zero-shot semantic segmentation with the Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM 3). A dataset of approximately 14,000 Mapillary images from Dhaka, Bangladesh, collected between 2023 and 2025, was used for the analysis. Waste-related objects were identified using SAM 3 with text prompts, eliminating the need for task-specific training data. Detected instances were geolocated and visualized through an interactive web-based application and can be exported in GeoJSON format for further analysis outside of our web-based application. The results demonstrate the potential of combining visual foundation models with street-level imagery for scalable and cost-effective urban waste monitoring in resource-constrained settings. The proposed workflow is transferable to other cities with sufficient street-level imagery coverage and can support evidence-based municipal planning, cleanup operations, and enforcement. The developed code is publicly available at: https://github.com/hcu-cml/roadside-waste-detection-mapping.</p>
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