A foreign body intrusion detection method for power lines based on Transformer

Abstract

The power system is constantly exposed to outdoor environments, which makes it susceptible to invasion by foreign body such as tree branches and garbage bags. Currently, most deep learning-based detection methods assume the presence of foreign body in the image, and there is still room for improvement in detection accuracy. In this paper, a foreign body detection method for the power system is proposed based on Inception-V3 and Trans-former. The method first classifies inspection images according to whether foreign bodies are present, and then detects foreign body that have invaded the power system. This method does not use pre-defined datasets and converts object detection into a direct bounding box prediction problem, which greatly optimizes existing detection methods. Experimental results on actual datasets show that our research effectively improves the accuracy and efficiency of foreign body detection compared to detection algorithms based on Faster R-CNN and YOLOv3.