April 14th, 2026 
Daniela Lopez de Luise We are pleased to share the Call for Papers for the Topical Collection:
“Emerging Trends in Smart Waste Monitoring and Environmental Surveillance”
🔗 Collection link: https://link.springer.com/journal/521/updates/27851508
The growing global concern around waste management, illegal dumping, and environmental pollution highlights the urgent need for intelligent monitoring solutions. Advances in computer vision, driven by the remarkable progress of artificial intelligence technologies, offer promising opportunities to address these challenges. At the same time, the scientific literature in this field highlights several important research gaps, including:
🔹 The lack of robust detection methods for diverse environments;
🔹 Limited datasets and benchmarks;
🔹 The need for solutions that can be deployed in real systems with limited computational resources.
The Topical Collection on “Emerging Trends in Smart Waste Monitoring and Environmental Surveillance” aims to provide a dedicated forum for researchers and companies to present and discuss novel contributions in this emerging field. The collection seeks to advance the SOTA in smart waste monitoring, illegal dumping detection, and environmental pollution surveillance, while fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. We invite original research contributions in, but not limited to, the following areas:
📷 Image Analysis for waste detection and classification;
🎥 Video Analysis for waste tracking and management;
♻️ Computer Vision methods for detecting illegal waste disposal;
🧠 Multimodal Systems for dumping identification;
🚁 Remote Sensing and UAV-based waste monitoring;
🌍 Video and Image analytics for pollution tracking;
📊 Datasets and Benchmarks for waste and pollution monitoring;
🏙️ Applications and Case Studies, including real-world deployments in urban and rural contexts.
Guest Editors
🔹 Prof. Antonio Greco, University of Salerno, Italy — [agreco@unisa.it]
🔹 Prof. Carlo Sansone, University of Naples Federico II, Italy — [carlo.sansone@unina.it]
🔹 Dr. Bruno Vento, University of Naples Federico II, Italy — [bruno.vento@unina.it]
📅 Manuscript submission deadline: 30 June 2026.
Submission Guidelines
Paper submissions for the collection should strictly follow the submission format and guidelines. Manuscripts must be submitted via the “Submit manuscript” button on the journal homepage. During the submission step “Additional Information”, authors should select: “TC: Emerging Trends in Smart Waste Monitoring and Environmental Surveillance”.
Author Resources
Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. Springer also provides a wide range of useful information for publishing in a Springer journal through its Journal Author Resources page, including FAQs, tutorials, and Help and Support.
We would be grateful if you could share this Call for Papers with colleagues, research groups, and industrial partners who may be interested.
Kind regards,
The Guest Editors
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