Original ResearchPublished 7 October 2026UWAD-Net: attention-enhanced underwater waste detection in freshwater pond environmentsBennet Benjamin S · Sumanth Ramamoorthy Rathnasekaran · Rohit Anand Patnaik · Sasithradevi Anbalagan · Vijayalakshmi MFrontiers in Waterdoi 10.3389/frwa.2026.1923979