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Journal of Graphics ›› 2023, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (3): 438-447.DOI: 10.11996/JG.j.2095-302X.2023030438

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Defect detection method of transmission line bolts based on DETR and prior knowledge fusion

LI Gang1,2(), ZHANG Yun-tao1, WANG Wen-kai1, ZHANG Dong-yang1()   

  1. 1. Department of Computer, North China Electric Power University, Baoding Hebei 071003, China
    2. Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Computing for Complex Energy Systems, Ministry of Education, Baoding Hebei 071003, China
  • Received:2022-08-12 Accepted:2022-12-28 Online:2023-06-30 Published:2023-06-30
  • Contact: ZHANG Dong-yang (1981-), engineer, master. His main research interest covers computer vision. E-mail:zhdy@ncepu.edu.cn
  • About author:

    LI Gang (1980-), associate professor, Ph.D. His main research interests cover prognostics and health management, etc. E-mail:ququ_er2003@126.com

  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(51407076);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2020MS119)

Abstract:

In order to address the problem of deep learning model unable to learn the prior knowledge of bolt targets, difficulty in locating its defects quickly and accurately only through visual features, and the limited number and unbalanced categories of bolt defect samples, this paper proposed the method of incorporating the deep learning model and the prior knowledge of bolts. DETR (detection transformer) was selected as the baseline model, and an improved DETR model was designed and implemented by incorporating DETR and prior knowledge. First, the visual-knowledge attention module was used to fuse the visual features of the bolt image with the prior knowledge of the bolt, generating the enhanced visual features corresponding to the bolts. Then, the enhanced visual features were sent to the DETR model framework, which was based on the Transformer encoding-decoding structure, thus identifying and classifying bolt targets. Finally, to overcome the problem of few and unbalanced samples of bolt critical defects, a class incremental learning loss function (CILLF) was introduced to enhance the identification ability of the model and alleviate the long-tail distribution problem of bolt defect samples. The simulation results demonstrated that the improved DETR model achieved an increase of 2.8 percentage points in mAP on the transmission line bolt defect sample compared with the baseline model DETR. Compared with the mainstream Faster R-CNN and YOLOv5l models, the improved DETR model showed significant improvement in detecting category images with few bolt defect samples under the long-tail distribution.

Key words: bolt defect detection, Transformer, DETR, prior knowledge, augmented visual features, incremental learning-like loss function

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