Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 59, Issue 24, 2410008(2022)

Insulator Defect Detection Based on Multi-Scale Feature Coding and Dual Attention Fusion

Lirong Li1,2、*, Peng Chen1, Yunliang Zhang1, Kai Zhang1, Wei Xiong1,2, and Pengcheng Gong1,2
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Hubei 430064, Wuhan, China
  • 2Hubei Engineering Research Center of New Energy and Power Grid Equipment Safety Monitoring, Hubei 430064, Wuhan, China
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    Figures & Tables(15)
    CenterNet structure
    Structure of proposed algorithm
    Schematic diagrams of Bottleneck block and Res2Net Module. (a) Bottleneck block; (b) Res2Net module
    ASPP module
    Schematic diagram of dual attention fusion
    Loss curve
    Sample dataset
    Example of real box labels
    Visualization of detection results. (a) Visualization of insulator detection results; (b) visualization of test results of insulators and defective insulators
    • Table 1. Definitions of TP, TN, FP, and FN

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      Table 1. Definitions of TP, TN, FP, and FN

      Real categoryPredictive valueDefinition
      11TP
      10FP
      01TN
      00FN
    • Table 2. Experimental results of different backbone networks

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      Table 2. Experimental results of different backbone networks

      Algorithm framework

      Backbone network

      AP50

      P

      R

      mAP

      Normal

      Defect

      Normal

      Defect

      Normal

      Defect

      CenterNet

      ResNet18

      80.80

      14.95

      96.86

      50.00

      41.48

      0.79

      47.87

      ResNet50

      94.72

      76.46

      94.20

      89.47

      84.08

      53.54

      85.59

      ResNet101

      91.65

      62.70

      98.86

      84.00

      77.80

      33.07

      77.17

      DLANet34

      93.61

      62.61

      99.41

      81.40

      75.56

      27.56

      78.11

      Res2Net50

      94.26

      82.29

      95.93

      91.09

      84.53

      72.44

      88.27

    • Table 3. Ablation experiment

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      Table 3. Ablation experiment

      No.Res2Net50ASPPECASEPR
      NormalDefectNormalDefect
      198.6892.2283.6365.35
      297.1692.5284.5377.95
      395.7394.5085.4381.10
      497.2696.3687.4483.46
    • Table 4. Ablation experiment

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      Table 4. Ablation experiment

      No.Res2Net50ASPPECASEAP50F1mAP /%
      Normal /%Defect /%NormalDefect
      193.2986.240.910.7689.77
      295.3388.580.900.8591.96
      394.7392.270.900.8793.50
      495.8894.810.920.8995.35
    • Table 5. Comparison experiment of adding different attention on two branches

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      Table 5. Comparison experiment of adding different attention on two branches

      The first branchThe second branchAP50PRmAP
      NormalDefectNormalDefectNormalDefect
      ECAECA95.2889.7097.7493.3387.4477.1792.49
      ECASE95.8894.8197.2696.3687.4483.4695.35
    • Table 6. Comparison of different algorithms

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      Table 6. Comparison of different algorithms

      Algorithm framework (backbone)

      AP50

      P

      R

      mAP

      FPS

      Normal

      Defect

      Normal

      Defect

      Normal

      Defect

      SSD(VGG16)

      91.02

      88.87

      93.75

      92.86

      87.5

      88.67

      89.95

      58.62

      RetinaNet(ResNet50)

      88.70

      86.38

      95.91

      88.03

      78.92

      84.1

      87.54

      44.30

      FasterRCNN(VGG16)

      96.25

      70.49

      73.47

      42.91

      96.86

      95.28

      83.37

      29.16

      YOLOv3(Darknet53)

      93.90

      87.45

      91.61

      91.27

      93.05

      90.55

      90.68

      75.63

      CenterNet(ResNet50)

      94.72

      76.46

      94.20

      89.47

      84.08

      53.54

      85.59

      97.51

      Proposed algorithm

      95.88

      94.81

      97.26

      96.36

      87.44

      83.46

      95.35

      65.95

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    Lirong Li, Peng Chen, Yunliang Zhang, Kai Zhang, Wei Xiong, Pengcheng Gong. Insulator Defect Detection Based on Multi-Scale Feature Coding and Dual Attention Fusion[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2022, 59(24): 2410008

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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Sep. 28, 2021

    Accepted: Nov. 3, 2021

    Published Online: Jan. 6, 2023

    The Author Email: Li Lirong (Rongli@hbut.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP202259.2410008

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