WADE: A Reasoning-Annotated Benchmark for Multi-Instance Floating-Waste Grounding with Compact Vision-Language Models

Md. Asaduzzaman Shuvo, Ahsan Farabi, Md. Abdul Ahad Minhaz +4

Floating waste in inland waterways threatens aquatic ecosystems and requires timely monitoring under cluttered, multi-object conditions. Existing aquatic-waste datasets provide lim…