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Area of Science:

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Computer Vision
  • Artificial Intelligence

Background:

  • Detecting defects in aerial insulators is challenging due to complex backgrounds and small defect targets, impacting accuracy and speed.
  • Existing methods struggle with the sensitivity of small targets to model regression accuracy and the limitations of Intersection over Union (IoU) metrics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To improve the accuracy and real-time detection of aerial insulator defects.
  • To address the limitations of IoU and enhance the model's regression accuracy for small targets.

Main Methods:

  • An improved SIoU (Simple Intersection over Union) loss function was developed to enhance regression accuracy and accelerate model convergence.
  • An Efficient Channel Attention Module (ECA) was integrated to mitigate the impact of redundant features in complex backgrounds.

Main Results:

  • The improved model achieved a mean Average Precision (mAP) of 97.18%, a 2.74% increase compared to the baseline.
  • The enhanced model demonstrated a detection speed of up to 71 frames per second (fps).

Conclusions:

  • The proposed model effectively detects aerial insulator defects with high accuracy and real-time performance.
  • The integration of SIoU loss and ECA module significantly improves defect detection in challenging environments.