Detection of Pin Defects in Aerial Images Based on Cascaded Convolutional Neural Network

Pins are standard fasteners in power transmission lines, and the hidden dangers of pins falling off dramatically affects their safe operation. If a pin is missed, it is called pin defects in this paper. As the pin is a small target and has a complex background, traditional detection algorithms were...

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Main Authors: Yewei Xiao, Zhiqiang Li, Dongbo Zhang, Lianwei Teng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2021-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9427490/
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Zhiqiang Li
Dongbo Zhang
Lianwei Teng
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description Pins are standard fasteners in power transmission lines, and the hidden dangers of pins falling off dramatically affects their safe operation. If a pin is missed, it is called pin defects in this paper. As the pin is a small target and has a complex background, traditional detection algorithms were used to identify pin defects from aerial images which suffer from poor accuracy and low efficiency. This paper proposed a target detection method based on cascaded convolutional neural networks. First, a small-scale shallow full convolutional neural network was used to obtain the region of interest; then, a deeper convolutional neural network conducted target classification and positioning on the obtained region of interest. Next, a nonlinear multilayer perceptron was introduced, the convolution kernel was decomposed, and the multi-scale feature maps were fused. At this point, an angle variable was added to the classification cross-entropy loss function. Multi-task learning and offline hard sample mining strategies were used in the training phase. The proposed method was tested on a self-built pin dataset and the remote sensing image RSOD dataset, and the experimental results proved its effectiveness. Our method can accurately identify pin defects in aerial images, thereby solving the engineering application problem of pin defect detection in transmission lines.
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spelling doaj.art-7a961a3858d34bb6a5fa0e03bcb271a72022-12-21T22:04:42ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362021-01-019730717308210.1109/ACCESS.2021.30791729427490Detection of Pin Defects in Aerial Images Based on Cascaded Convolutional Neural NetworkYewei Xiao0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9689-3760Zhiqiang Li1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0259-8910Dongbo Zhang2Lianwei Teng3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6523-9731School of Information Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, ChinaSchool of Information Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, ChinaSchool of Information Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, ChinaSchool of Information Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, ChinaPins are standard fasteners in power transmission lines, and the hidden dangers of pins falling off dramatically affects their safe operation. If a pin is missed, it is called pin defects in this paper. As the pin is a small target and has a complex background, traditional detection algorithms were used to identify pin defects from aerial images which suffer from poor accuracy and low efficiency. This paper proposed a target detection method based on cascaded convolutional neural networks. First, a small-scale shallow full convolutional neural network was used to obtain the region of interest; then, a deeper convolutional neural network conducted target classification and positioning on the obtained region of interest. Next, a nonlinear multilayer perceptron was introduced, the convolution kernel was decomposed, and the multi-scale feature maps were fused. At this point, an angle variable was added to the classification cross-entropy loss function. Multi-task learning and offline hard sample mining strategies were used in the training phase. The proposed method was tested on a self-built pin dataset and the remote sensing image RSOD dataset, and the experimental results proved its effectiveness. Our method can accurately identify pin defects in aerial images, thereby solving the engineering application problem of pin defect detection in transmission lines.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9427490/Pin defectaerial imagecascaded convolutional neural networknonlinear multilayer perceptronhard sample mining
spellingShingle Yewei Xiao
Zhiqiang Li
Dongbo Zhang
Lianwei Teng
Detection of Pin Defects in Aerial Images Based on Cascaded Convolutional Neural Network
IEEE Access
Pin defect
aerial image
cascaded convolutional neural network
nonlinear multilayer perceptron
hard sample mining
title Detection of Pin Defects in Aerial Images Based on Cascaded Convolutional Neural Network
title_full Detection of Pin Defects in Aerial Images Based on Cascaded Convolutional Neural Network
title_fullStr Detection of Pin Defects in Aerial Images Based on Cascaded Convolutional Neural Network
title_full_unstemmed Detection of Pin Defects in Aerial Images Based on Cascaded Convolutional Neural Network
title_short Detection of Pin Defects in Aerial Images Based on Cascaded Convolutional Neural Network
title_sort detection of pin defects in aerial images based on cascaded convolutional neural network
topic Pin defect
aerial image
cascaded convolutional neural network
nonlinear multilayer perceptron
hard sample mining
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9427490/
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