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LiteYOLO-ID: A Lightweight Object Detection Network for Insulator Defect Detection

24 Jun 2024IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 2024 6archive 2025-07-28

Yang Lu

Insulator defect detection is of great significance to ensure the normal operation of power transmission and distribution networks. In response to the problems of low speed, low accuracy, and difficulty in deploying to embedded terminals in existing insulator defect detection, this paper proposes a lightweight insulator defect detection model based on an improved YOLOv5s, named LiteYOLO-ID. Firstly, to significantly reduce the model parameters while maintaining detection accuracy, we design a new lightweight convolution module called EGC (ECA-GhostNet-C2f). Secondly, based on the EGC module, we construct the EGC-CSPGhostNet backbone network, which optimizes the feature extraction process and achieves model compression. Additionally, we design a lightweight neck network, EGC-PANet, to further reduce the parameter count and achieve efficient feature fusion. Experimental results show that on the IDID-Plus dataset, compared to the original YOLOv5s model, not only does LiteYOLO-ID reduce the model parameters by 47.13\%, but it also improves the mAP(0.5) by 1\%. Furthermore, the generalization of the model is validated on the Pascal VOC dataset and the SFID dataset. Importantly, after TensorRT optimization, the inference speed of the LiteYOLO-ID algorithm on the Jetson TX2 NX reaches 20.2 FPS, meeting the real-time detection requirements of insulator defects. Our code, weight models, and datasets can be obtained at the following URL: https://github.com/LuYang-2023/Insulator-defect-detection.

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Defect DetectionInsulator Defect DetectionModel CompressionObject Detectionobject-detection

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1x1 ConvolutionAverage PoolingBatch NormalizationConvolutionDepthwise ConvolutionDepthwise Separable ConvolutionECANetGhost BottleneckGhost ModuleInverted Residual BlockPointwise ConvolutionReLUResidual ConnectionSPEEDYOLOv8

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