WANG Qiang, FENG Yuntao, ZHOU Chao. Research on Multi-type Defect Detection of Insulator for Transmission Line Based on GE-YOLO Algorithm[J]. High voltage apparatus, 2025, 61(6): 92-101.
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WANG Qiang, FENG Yuntao, ZHOU Chao. Research on Multi-type Defect Detection of Insulator for Transmission Line Based on GE-YOLO Algorithm[J]. High voltage apparatus, 2025, 61(6): 92-101. DOI: 10.13296/j.1001-1609.hva.2025.06.011.
Research on Multi-type Defect Detection of Insulator for Transmission Line Based on GE-YOLO Algorithm
Due to such objective limitations as small target size and complex background in aerial images of line insulators
traditional detection algorithms and most lightweight networks are difficult to accurately identify target defects. In this paper a multi-type defect detection model for insulators based on GE-YOLO is proposed. The algorithm is based on YOLOv8s and combines grouping convolution and multi-scale fusion ideas to design grouping multi scale convolution (GMSC)
which is used to improve C2f and enhance the model's feature extraction ability. The efficient multi-scale attention mechanism (EMA) is introduced into the feature fusion network to improve the model's target localization ability. Finally
the loss function is replaced into Wise-IOU to reduce the excessive penalty of geometric factors and improve the performance of model regression. The experimental results show that the computational complexity of the optimized network model remains basically unchanged
meeting the edge computing power requirements. The overall
mAP
is increased by 5.5%
in w
hich the
mAP
of damaged insulator is increased by 10.9%. The algorithm in this paper can achieve the detection of multiple types of defects of insulators more evenly.