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  • Railway Engineering
  • Computer Vision
  • Artificial Intelligence

Background:

  • Accurate rail surface defect identification is crucial for railway maintenance and operational safety.
  • Existing methods struggle with the wide range of defect scales and the prevalence of small defects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose an effective rail surface defect detection algorithm, RSDNet, addressing challenges of scale variation and small defect identification.
  • To enhance the performance of the YOLOv8n baseline model for rail defect detection.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a Cascade Dilated Convolution (CDConv) module for multi-scale feature extraction.
  • Optimized feature fusion using a Bi-directional Feature Pyramids Network (BiFPN) in the detection head.
  • Integrated an Efficient Multi-Scale Attention (EMA) module to improve focus on defect features.

Main Results:

  • RSDNet achieved a mean Average Precision (mAP) of 95.4% on the RSDDs dataset.
  • Demonstrated a 4.6% performance improvement over the baseline YOLOv8n model.
  • Validated the algorithm's effectiveness in detecting various rail surface defects.

Conclusions:

  • RSDNet offers a robust solution for rail surface defect detection, outperforming the standard YOLOv8n.
  • The proposed CDConv, BiFPN optimization, and EMA module contribute to improved detection accuracy.
  • This research provides a valuable technical tool for practical railway inspection and safety management.