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CEA-DETR: A Multi-Scale Feature Fusion-Based Method for Wind Turbine Blade Surface Defect Detection.

Xudong Luo¹, Ruimin Wang², Jianhui Zhang^1,3

¹School of Cyberspace Security, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, China.

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|April 14, 2026

Summary

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This study introduces CEA-DETR, an enhanced detection framework for wind turbine blade surface defects. It improves accuracy and reduces false detections, making inspections more efficient.

Keywords:

RTDETR attention mechanism defect detection multi-scale features wind turbine blade

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Artificial Intelligence

Background:

Wind turbine blade surface defect detection is challenging due to scale variations, blurred textures, and complex backgrounds.
Existing methods often suffer from insufficient accuracy and high false/missed detection rates.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose an improved RTDETR-based detection framework, CEA-DETR, for efficient wind turbine blade surface defect inspection.
To enhance the accuracy and efficiency of automated defect detection systems.

Main Methods:

Designed a Cross-Scale Multi-Edge feature Extraction (CSME) backbone for fine-grained feature extraction.
Constructed an Efficient Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Network (EMSFFN) for enhanced multi-scale defect representation.
Introduced an adaptive sparse self-attention mechanism to improve focus on critical defect regions.

Main Results:

CEA-DETR achieved mAP50 of 89.4% and mAP50:95 of 68.9%, outperforming the baseline by 3.1% and 6.5%.
Reduced computational cost by 20.1% and parameter count by 8.1%.
Demonstrated suitability for resource-constrained unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Conclusions:

CEA-DETR offers a significant improvement in wind turbine blade surface defect detection accuracy and efficiency.
The model's reduced computational footprint makes it ideal for real-time autonomous inspection using UAVs.