Pith. sign in

REVIEW 3 major objections 4 minor 170 references

Deep Learning in Automated Power Line Inspection: A Review

T0 review · 3 major / 4 minor · reviewed 2026-08-08 · deepseek-v4-flash

Pith's one-line read This review claims that deep-learning-based automated power line inspection is best understood as two connected tasks—component detection and fault diagnosis—and that current gaps in data, small-object detection, and multimodal imaging…

desk verdict A useful but sloppy review: the field map is fine, but duplicate rows in Table 14 undermine the quantitative synthesis. read the letter →

arxiv 2502.07826 v1 pith:7BA5DSNX submitted 2025-02-10 cs.CV eess.IV

classification cs.CVeess.IV
keywords powerlineinspectiondeeplearningfaultdetectioncomponentcomputervisionUAVimageryobjectelectricalgridmaintenance
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal

The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

This paper argues that deep learning has become the central tool for automated power line inspection, and that the field is best organized into two connected tasks: detecting components such as insulators, conductors, fittings, and towers, and diagnosing faults such as surface defects, structural damage, foreign objects, and vegetation encroachment. It synthesizes the current literature on datasets, imaging platforms, and model families, and claims this structure reveals where the field stands and where it is stuck. The review matters because power line failures can cause outages and wildfires, and a reliable map of what works and what is missing can guide safer, cheaper, and more automated inspection. The paper's main contribution is its structured synthesis, not a new algorithm: it gives practitioners a way to choose approaches by component, platform, dataset size, and task, while pointing to data scarcity, tiny components, and limited multimodal imaging as the real bottlenecks.

What carries the argument

The machinery that carries the argument is a pair of taxonomies: the split of all reviewed work into component detection versus fault diagnosis, and a 14-criterion qualitative assessment rubric covering dataset size, dataset and code availability, multi-component coverage, imaging modalities, image processing, synthetic data, small-object focus, fault localization, performance metrics, limitation statements, and real-time suitability. These structures produce the paper's trend percentages, its decision-flow diagrams for component detection and fault diagnosis, and its conclusions about where the field is underdeveloped. The review also leans on the standard deep learning detector families—YOLO, the R-CNN series, SSD, transformer-based detectors, and ImageNet-pretrained classifiers—as the recurring tools that the surveyed studies adapt.

What would settle it

A concrete check is to re-run the literature selection with an explicit, reproducible search strategy and see whether the claimed percentages hold; the review's own Table 14 already contains duplicate rows for the same references, such as [57] appearing twice and [90] twice, so a reader can directly verify curation errors.

Watch

Extended reading notes

Core claim

The paper's central claim is that a deep-learning-focused, up-to-date synthesis of power line inspection research was missing, and that organizing the literature into component detection and fault diagnosis exposes clear patterns: insulator-focused work dominates, UAV imagery and bounding-box detection are the norm, most datasets are private and contain fewer than 5000 images, only about 8% of studies use non-visible imaging modalities, only 6 of 73 reviewed studies publish their code, and roughly a third target real-time deployment. Based on this synthesis, the paper claims that the most promising future directions are edge-cloud fusion architectures, multimodal imaging and fusion, synthetic data generation, self-supervised and few-shot learning, and better handling of very small components. The review also asserts that these gaps, not raw detection accuracy, are what currently prevent fully automated and reliable power line inspection.

Load-bearing premise

The review's conclusions rest on the assumption that the 73 papers it chose to review, without a stated search strategy or inclusion criteria, fairly represent the whole field of deep learning for power line inspection.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Practitioners can use the component-detection versus fault-diagnosis split to select model families: real-time screening with YOLO or SSD, precise localization with R-CNN variants, and transformer-based detectors for small or occluded components.
  • Insulator-focused methods dominate the literature, so fittings such as bolts and dampers—which occupy only a few pixels in aerial images—are the clearest target for meaningful accuracy gains.
  • Data availability is the main bottleneck, so synthetic data, self-supervised pretraining, and few-shot or meta-learning approaches are necessary paths rather than optional enhancements.
  • Edge-cloud two-stage fusion appears as a practical route: lightweight models at the edge filter images and heavier models in the cloud refine detections, reducing bandwidth while keeping accuracy.
  • Non-visible imaging modalities are heavily underused, so combining infrared, ultraviolet, X-ray, and LiDAR data with visible light could catch faults that color images alone cannot reveal.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the review's trends are accurate, the field would likely benefit more from standardized public benchmarks and reproducible evaluation protocols than from yet another detection architecture; the 14-criterion rubric itself could be the seed of such a protocol.
  • The duplicate rows in Table 14 for the same references suggest the underlying reference base needs cleaning, so the numeric trend percentages should be treated as directional rather than exact until a systematic search strategy is applied.
  • The decision-flow diagrams imply an operational decision-support tool: a user inputs component type, imaging platform, dataset size, and task, and receives a recommended algorithm family; turning that flow into an interactive guide is a concrete next step.
  • Anomaly detection trained only on healthy power line images, combined with edge deployment, is a natural extension of the review's emphasis on unknown defects and real-time constraints, though the paper does not itself test this combination.
Share X Bluesky LinkedIn Reddit HN

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

3 major / 4 minor

Summary. This manuscript is a literature review of deep learning methods for automated power line inspection, covering image acquisition platforms, imaging modalities, publicly available datasets, deep learning architectures, component detection, fault diagnosis, and open challenges. The authors categorize roughly 73 studies into component detection and fault diagnosis and provide a qualitative assessment of those studies in Table 14, from which they derive percentages about dataset size, dataset availability, code sharing, multi-component detection, and other properties. The paper also includes decision-flow diagrams in Figure 7 and a discussion of future research directions such as edge-cloud collaboration and multimodal imaging. The central claim is that the review is comprehensive, systematic, and up-to-date.

Significance. If its curation were reliable, this review would provide a useful structured entry point for researchers and practitioners in power line inspection, particularly because it consolidates many recent studies into a component-detection versus fault-diagnosis taxonomy and tabulates datasets, algorithms, and performance metrics. The paper is strongest in its breadth of coverage and in the detailed tables that accompany each subsection, which will help readers locate relevant work quickly. However, the significance is materially limited by the absence of a documented literature search protocol and by inconsistencies in the central assessment table, which undermine the quantitative synthesis. The review does not claim predictive or derivational results, so the usual reproducibility and parameter-fitting criteria do not apply, but a review's contribution depends on the reliability of its literature selection and coding; those are exactly what need strengthening.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 10, Table 14] Table 14 contains duplicate rows for the same references: Sadykova et al. [57] appears as rows 9 and 11, Zhang et al. [90] as rows 24 and 27, Zhang et al. [95] as rows 41 and 42, and Zhang et al. [65] as rows 58 and 60. Because every percentage reported in Section 10 is computed over the 73 rows (e.g., 23% public datasets, 30% large datasets, 8% code sharing, 34% multi-component), the duplicates inflate the denominator and bias the statistics. The two entries for Sadykova et al. [57] also disagree on Fault Localization (row 9 marks ✓, row 11 marks ×), and the two entries for Zhang et al. [90] disagree on Dataset Availability (row 24 marks ×, row 27 marks ✓), so the assessment criteria are not applied consistently to the same study. The authors should deduplicate the table, report the number of unique studies, and recompute all percentages and the corresponding discussion.
  2. [Sections 1, 2, and 10] The review does not describe its literature search strategy, database sources, inclusion and exclusion criteria, or data extraction procedure. The abstract and Section 2 claim that the paper is a 'comprehensive' and 'systematic' review, but without a reproducible protocol the selection of the 73 studies cannot be distinguished from a convenience sample, and the coverage claims in Sections 8 and 9 are not verifiable. This is a load-bearing gap because the paper's contribution is its synthesis and quantitative assessment of the literature; adding a methods subsection that specifies the search timeline, query terms, databases, and screening steps is necessary to support the central claim.
  3. [Section 10] The statement that 'only 6 out of 73 published their source code' is inconsistent with the Code Availability column in Table 14, which contains checkmarks in only five rows (rows 41, 59, 67, 68, and 70). The authors should either correct the count or adjust the table, because the code-sharing rate is one of the headline quantitative findings of the review.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Table 14, row 31] Row 31 lists 'Hunag et al. [96]' with year 2022, but the bibliography and Table 5 both give this work as Huang et al. from 2023; the author name and year should be corrected for consistency.
  2. [Tables 4 and 9] The same work, Zhang et al. [90], legitimately appears in both Table 4 (semantic segmentation with CDSNets) and Table 9 (defect detection with GAN), because the study covers both insulator extraction and defect detection. That dual listing is acceptable, but it should be clearly cross-referenced so that readers do not mistake it for a duplicate of the erroneous rows in Table 14.
  3. [Appendix A.4.1] The statement 'Although we could not find any research work on power line inspection that utilizes ViTs' is a negative empirical claim that would be more credible if the review's literature scope and search process were explicitly documented.
  4. [Section 10, Figure 7] The decision-flow diagrams in Figure 7 are based on the same reviewed set as Table 14; after deduplication and correction of the assessment table, the authors should verify that the reported patterns (e.g., most studies using UAVs and 1000–5000 images) remain unchanged.

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged · score 0.0 of 10

No circularity identified: the review is a literature synthesis with no derivational or predictive claims.

full rationale

This paper is a review article that synthesizes previously published work on deep learning for power line inspection. It makes no derivation of new results from its own assumptions, fits no parameters to data, and issues no predictions that could be forced by construction. Its central contribution is a structured categorization of existing research and a qualitative assessment, summarized in tables. None of the review's statements define a result in terms of its own output, and no load-bearing self-citation or imported uniqueness theorem appears. The duplicate rows in Table 14 are a curation and reproducibility concern that undermines the quantitative percentages in Section 10, but that is a methodological flaw, not circularity: the percentages are derived from listed references, not from the review's own prior claims. The paper makes no attempt to present its selection criteria as a derived prediction, and it does not define its categories by the conclusions it draws. Therefore the circularity burden is zero.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 3 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper is a literature review, so the ledger contains no free parameters or invented entities. Its conclusions rest on assumptions about the accuracy and comprehensiveness of the literature summary, which are weakened by mechanical errors and a lack of methodology.

assumptions (3)
  • domain assumption The reviewed papers' reported performance metrics are accurately transcribed and comparable across different datasets and settings.
    The review aggregates mAP, F1, and accuracy numbers from many papers without normalizing for dataset difficulty, annotation protocols, or evaluation splits, which are known to vary widely.
  • domain assumption The literature selection is comprehensive and unbiased.
    Section 2 claims comprehensiveness but provides no search strategy, database list, screening criteria, or PRISMA-style flow. Without this, coverage cannot be assessed.
  • ad hoc to paper The qualitative assessment criteria in Table 14 are meaningful for evaluating research quality.
    Section 10 introduces criteria such as dataset size greater than 5000 and code availability, but does not justify their selection or relative importance, and they may not correlate with research impact.

how reviews work

0 comments
Cite this review

Pith. "Pith review of Deep Learning in Automated Power Line Inspection: A Review." pith.science (2026). https://pith.science/paper/7BA5DSNX

@misc{pith2026250207826,
  author       = {Pith},
  title        = {Pith review of: Deep Learning in Automated Power Line Inspection: A Review},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://pith.science/paper/7BA5DSNX}},
  note         = {Machine review of arXiv:2502.07826}
}
read the original abstract

In recent years, power line maintenance has seen a paradigm shift by moving towards computer vision-powered automated inspection. The utilization of an extensive collection of videos and images has become essential for maintaining the reliability, safety, and sustainability of electricity transmission. A significant focus on applying deep learning techniques for enhancing power line inspection processes has been observed in recent research. A comprehensive review of existing studies has been conducted in this paper, to aid researchers and industries in developing improved deep learning-based systems for analyzing power line data. The conventional steps of data analysis in power line inspections have been examined, and the body of current research has been systematically categorized into two main areas: the detection of components and the diagnosis of faults. A detailed summary of the diverse methods and techniques employed in these areas has been encapsulated, providing insights into their functionality and use cases. Special attention has been given to the exploration of deep learning-based methodologies for the analysis of power line inspection data, with an exposition of their fundamental principles and practical applications. Moreover, a vision for future research directions has been outlined, highlighting the need for advancements such as edge-cloud collaboration, and multi-modal analysis among others. Thus, this paper serves as a comprehensive resource for researchers delving into deep learning for power line analysis, illuminating the extent of current knowledge and the potential areas for future investigation.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2502.07826 by the authors.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Block Diagram of an automated multi-modal power line inspection system. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Example of different image enhancement techniques used for power line inspection [9]. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Overall process of the two stage insulator detection using the SSD network [63]. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_3.png] view at source ↗
Figures from the paper (4 more)
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Different types of power line faults [9]. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_4.png]
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Simplified diagram of multi-model fusion network for detecting insulators [60]. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_5.png]
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: The simplified network architecture of the proposed YOLOX++ network [134]. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_6.png]
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: (a) The inter-relation between the different aspects in power line component detection. (b) The inter-relation between [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_7.png]

Discussion (0). Continue with ORCID to comment.

Reference graph

Works this paper leans on

170 extracted references · 42 canonical work pages

  1. [57]

    Sadykova, D

    D. Sadykova, D. Pernebayeva, M. Bagheri, A. James, In-yolo: Real-time detection of outdoor high voltage insulators using uav imaging, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery 35 (3) (2019) 1599–1601

  2. [90]

    Zhang, S

    D. Zhang, S. Gao, L. Yu, G. Kang, X. Wei, D. Zhan, DefGAN: Defect Detection GANs With Latent Space Pitting for High-Speed Railway Insulator, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 70 (2021) 1–10. doi: 10.1109/TIM.2020.3038008. 37

  3. [95]

    Zhang, L

    H. Zhang, L. Wu, Y. Chen, R. Chen, S. Kong, Y. Wang, J. Hu, J. Wu, Attention-Guided Multitask Convolutional Neural Network for Power Line Parts Detection, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 71 (2022) 1–13. doi:10.1109/TIM.2022.3162615

  4. [65]

    Zhang, W

    K. Zhang, W. Lou, J. Wang, R. Zhou, X. Guo, Y. Xiao, C. Shi, Z. Zhao, PA-DETR: End-to-End Visually Indistinguishable Bolt Defects Detection Method Based on Transmission Line Knowledge Reasoning, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 72 (2023) 1–14. doi:10.1109/TIM.2023.3282302

  5. [1]

    J. W. Mitchell, Power line failures and catastrophic wildfires under extreme weather conditions, Engineering Failure Analysis 35 (2013) 726–735. doi:10.1016/j.engfailanal.2013.07.006

  6. [2]

    The Link Between Power Lines and Wildfires (2018)

  7. [3]

    N. A. Salim, M. M. Othman, J. Jasni, I. Musirin, M. S. Serwan, Modeling and evaluating the customer interruption cost due to dynamic electrical power and energy failure, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems 103 (2018) 603–610. doi:10.1016/j.ijepes.2018.06.033

  8. [4]

    V. N. Nguyen, R. Jenssen, D. Roverso, Automatic autonomous vision-based power line inspection: A review of current status and the potential role of deep learning, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems 99 (2018) 107–120. doi:10.1016/j.ijepes.2017.12.016

Show all 170 references
  1. [5]

    Y. Liu, J. Shi, Z. Liu, J. Huang, T. Zhou, Two-Layer Routing for High-Voltage Powerline Inspection by Cooperated Ground Vehicle and Drone, Energies 12 (7) (2019) 1385, number: 7 Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. doi:10.3390/en12071385

  2. [6]

    Matikainen, M

    L. Matikainen, M. Lehtom¨ aki, E. Ahokas, J. Hyypp¨ a, M. Karjalainen, A. Jaakkola, A. Kukko, T. Heinonen, Remote sensing methods for power line corridor surveys, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 119 (2016) 10–31. doi:10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2016.04.011

  3. [7]

    L. Yang, J. Fan, Y. Liu, E. Li, J. Peng, Z. Liang, A Review on State-of-the-Art Power Line Inspection Techniques, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 69 (12) (2020) 9350–9365. doi:10.1109/TIM.2020.3031194

  4. [8]

    Martinez, C

    C. Martinez, C. Sampedro, A. Chauhan, J. F. Collumeau, P. Campoy, The Power Line Inspection Software (PoLIS): A versatile system for automating power line inspection, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 71 (2018) 293–314. doi:10.1016/j.engappai.2018.02.008. 34

  5. [9]

    X. Liu, X. Miao, H. Jiang, J. Chen, Data analysis in visual power line inspection: An in-depth review of deep learning for component detection and fault diagnosis, Annual Reviews in Control 50 (2020) 253–277. doi:10.1016/j.arcontrol. 2020.09.002

  6. [10]

    M. J. B. Reddy, K. C. B, D. K. Mohanta, Condition monitoring of 11 kV distribution system insulators incorporating complex imagery using combined DOST-SVM approach, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation 20 (2) (2013) 664–674. doi:10.1109/TDEI.2013.6508770

  7. [11]

    Z. Zhao, N. Liu, L. Wang, Localization of multiple insulators by orientation angle detection and binary shape prior knowledge, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation 22 (6) (2015) 3421–3428. doi:10.1109/TDEI. 2015.004741

  8. [12]

    Q. Wu, J. An, B. Lin, A Texture Segmentation Algorithm Based on PCA and Global Minimization Active Contour Model for Aerial Insulator Images, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 5 (5) (2012) 1509–1518. doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2197672

  9. [13]

    M. Chen, Y. Tian, S. Xing, Z. Li, E. Li, Z. Liang, R. Guo, Environment perception technologies for power transmission line inspection robots, Journal of Sensors 2021 (1) (2021) 5559231

  10. [14]

    L. Yang, J. Fan, Y. Liu, E. Li, J. Peng, Z. Liang, A review on state-of-the-art power line inspection techniques, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 69 (12) (2020) 9350–9365

  11. [15]

    K. M. Sundaram, A. Hussain, P. Sanjeevikumar, J. B. Holm-Nielsen, V. K. Kaliappan, B. K. Santhoshi, Deep learning for fault diagnostics in bearings, insulators, pv panels, power lines, and electric vehicle applications—the state-of-the-art approaches, IEEE Access 9 (2021) 41246–41260

  12. [16]

    Ruszczak, P

    B. Ruszczak, P. Michalski, M. Tomaszewski, Overview of image datasets for deep learning applications in diagnostics of power infrastructure, Sensors 23 (16) (2023) 7171

  13. [17]

    B. Xu, Y. Zhao, T. Wang, Q. Chen, Development of power transmission line detection technology based on unmanned aerial vehicle image vision, SN Applied Sciences 5 (3) (2023) 72

  14. [18]

    H. A. Foudeh, P. C.-K. Luk, J. F. Whidborne, An advanced unmanned aerial vehicle (uav) approach via learning-based control for overhead power line monitoring: A comprehensive review, IEEE Access 9 (2021) 130410–130433

  15. [19]

    V. N. Nguyen, R. Jenssen, D. Roverso, Intelligent Monitoring and Inspection of Power Line Components Powered by UA Vs and Deep Learning, IEEE Power and Energy Technology Systems Journal 6 (1) (2019) 11–21.doi:10.1109/JPETS. 2018.2881429

  16. [20]

    Girshick, J

    R. Girshick, J. Donahue, T. Darrell, J. Malik, Rich feature hierarchies for accurate object detection and semantic segmentation (Oct. 2014). doi:10.48550/arXiv.1311.2524

  17. [21]

    Redmon, S

    J. Redmon, S. Divvala, R. Girshick, A. Farhadi, You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection (May 2016). doi:10.48550/arXiv.1506.02640

  18. [22]

    W. Liu, D. Anguelov, D. Erhan, C. Szegedy, S. Reed, C.-Y. Fu, A. C. Berg, Ssd: Single shot multibox detector, in: Computer Vision–ECCV 2016: 14th European Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 11–14, 2016, Proceedings, Part I 14, Springer, 2016, pp. 21–37

  19. [23]

    Zhang, X

    Y. Zhang, X. Yuan, W. Li, S. Chen, Automatic Power Line Inspection Using UA V Images, Remote Sensing 9 (8) (2017) 824, number: 8 Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. doi:10.3390/rs9080824

  20. [24]

    F. Zhou, W. Jin, Z. Zheng, F. Mou, Z. Li, Y. Ma, B. Wei, S. Huang, Q. Wang, Insulator Detection for High-Resolution Satellite Images Based on Deep Learning, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 20 (2023) 1–5. doi:10.1109/ LGRS.2023.3251372

  21. [25]

    A. B. Alhassan, X. Zhang, H. Shen, H. Xu, Power transmission line inspection robots: A review, trends and challenges for future research, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems 118 (2020) 105862

  22. [26]

    Ekren, Z

    N. Ekren, Z. Karag¨ oz, M. S ¸ahin, A review of line suspended inspection robots for power transmission lines, Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology 19 (4) (2024) 2549–2583

  23. [27]

    Zhang, Z

    M. Zhang, Z. Song, J. Yang, M. Gao, Y. Hu, C. Yuan, Z. Jiang, W. Cheng, Study on the enhancement method of online monitoring image of dense fog environment with power lines in smart city, Frontiers in Neurorobotics 16 (2023)

  24. [28]

    Zhang, B

    Z.-D. Zhang, B. Zhang, Z.-C. Lan, H.-C. Liu, D.-Y. Li, L. Pei, W.-X. Yu, FINet: An Insulator Dataset and Detection Benchmark Based on Synthetic Fog and Improved YOLOv5, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 71 (2022) 1–8. doi:10.1109/TIM.2022.3194909

  25. [29]

    Singh, A

    L. Singh, A. Alam, K. V. Kumar, D. Kumar, P. Kumar, Z. A. Jaffery, Design of thermal imaging-based health condition monitoring and early fault detection technique for porcelain insulators using Machine learning, Environmental Technology & Innovation 24 (2021) 102000. doi:10.10...

  26. [30]

    Z. A. Jaffery, A. K. Dubey, Design of early fault detection technique for electrical assets using infrared thermograms, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems 63 (2014) 753–759. doi:10.1016/j.ijepes.2014.06.049

  27. [31]

    Hu, L.-X

    B. Hu, L.-X. Ma, S.-J. Yuan, B. Yang, New corona ultraviolet detection system and fault location method, in: 2012 China International Conference on Electricity Distribution, 2012, pp. 1–4. doi:10.1109/CICED.2012.6508475

  28. [32]

    Y. Li, F. Yu, Q. Cai, K. Yuan, R. Wan, X. Li, M. Qian, P. Liu, J. Guo, J. Yu, T. Zheng, H. Yan, P. Hou, Y. Feng, S. Wang, L. Ding, Image fusion of fault detection in power system based on deep learning, Cluster Computing 22 (4) (2019) 9435–9443. doi:10.1007/s10586-018-2264-2

  29. [33]

    C. Zang, J. He, Y. Xiaogen, B. Chen, H. Lei, J. Zhenglong, Z. Xinjie, Status and application foreground of ultraviolet technology on fault detection of power devices, in: 2008 International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis, 2008, pp. 122–125. doi:10.1109/CMD.20...

  30. [34]

    F. Wang, G. Song, J. Mao, Y. Li, Z. Ji, D. Chen, A. Song, Internal Defect Detection of Overhead Aluminum Con- ductor Composite Core Transmission Lines With an Inspection Robot and Computer Vision, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 72 (2023). doi:10.1109/TIM....

  31. [35]

    H. Guan, X. Sun, Y. Su, T. Hu, H. Wang, H. Wang, C. Peng, Q. Guo, Uav-lidar aids automatic intelligent powerline inspection, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems 130 (2021) 106987

  32. [36]

    M. A. Bergmann, L. F. R. Moreira, B. Krohling, T. L. Silveira, C. R. Jung, J. Tang, M. V. Feitosa, R. L. B. Gomes, B. N. Soares, An approach based on lidar and spherical images for automated vegetation inspection in urban power distribution lines, IEEE Access (2024)

  33. [37]

    X. Tao, D. Zhang, Z. Wang, X. Liu, H. Zhang, D. Xu, Detection of power line insulator defects using aerial images analyzed with convolutional neural networks, IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics: systems 50 (4) (2018) 1486–1498

  34. [38]

    Voigt, A

    P. Voigt, A. Von dem Bussche, The eu general data protection regulation (gdpr), A Practical Guide, 1st Ed., Cham: Springer International Publishing 10 (3152676) (2017) 10–5555

  35. [39]

    URL https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa

    California consumer privacy act (ccpa) (2024). URL https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa

  36. [40]

    URL https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/n6wrv4ry6v/8

    Yetgin, Powerline image dataset (infrared-ir and visible light-vl) (2019). URL https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/n6wrv4ry6v/8

  37. [41]

    Abdelfattah, X

    R. Abdelfattah, X. Wang, S. Wang, Ttpla: An aerial-image dataset for detection and segmentation of transmission towers and power lines, in: Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision, 2020, pp. 601–618

  38. [42]

    Diniz, T

    L. Diniz, T. Santa Maria, G. A. Pussente, Power transmission line dataset (2021). doi:10.21227/t9qk-cn48. URL https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/t9qk-cn48

  39. [43]

    Diwakar, ( recognizance - 2 ) power lines detection (2021)

    T. Diwakar, ( recognizance - 2 ) power lines detection (2021). URL https://kaggle.com/competitions/recognizance-2

  40. [44]

    A. L. B. Vieira-e Silva, H. de Castro Felix, T. de Menezes Chaves, F. P. M. Sim˜ oes, V. Teichrieb, M. M. dos Santos, H. da Cunha Santiago, V. A. C. Sgotti, H. B. D. T. L. Neto, Stn plad: A dataset for multi-size power line assets detection in high-resolution uav images, in: 2...

  41. [45]

    Savva, R

    A. Savva, R. Makrigiorgis, P. Kolios, C. Kyrkou, Aerial power infrastructure detection dataset (2023). doi:10.5281/ zenodo.7781388. URL https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7781388

  42. [47]

    K. M. Sundaram, A. Hussain, P. Sanjeevikumar, J. B. Holm-Nielsen, V. K. Kaliappan, B. K. Santhoshi, Deep Learning for Fault Diagnostics in Bearings, Insulators, PV Panels, Power Lines, and Electric Vehicle Applications—The State-of- the-Art Approaches, IEEE Access 9 (2021) 412...

  43. [48]

    Redmon, A

    J. Redmon, A. Farhadi, YOLO9000: Better, Faster, Stronger (Dec. 2016). doi:10.48550/arXiv.1612.08242

  44. [49]

    Redmon, A

    J. Redmon, A. Farhadi, YOLOv3: An Incremental Improvement (Apr. 2018). doi:10.48550/arXiv.1804.02767

  45. [50]

    Bochkovskiy, C.-Y

    A. Bochkovskiy, C.-Y. Wang, H.-Y. M. Liao, YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection (Apr. 2020). doi:10.48550/arXiv.2004.10934

  46. [51]

    Jocher, A

    G. Jocher, A. Chaurasia, J. Qiu, YOLO by Ultralytics (Jan. 2023)

  47. [52]

    Girshick, Fast R-CNN (Sep

    R. Girshick, Fast R-CNN (Sep. 2015). doi:10.48550/arXiv.1504.08083

  48. [53]

    S. Ren, K. He, R. Girshick, J. Sun, Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks (Jan. 2016). doi:10.48550/arXiv.1506.01497

  49. [54]

    Dosovitskiy, L

    A. Dosovitskiy, L. Beyer, A. Kolesnikov, D. Weissenborn, X. Zhai, T. Unterthiner, M. Dehghani, M. Minderer, G. Heigold, S. Gelly, et al., An image is worth 16x16 words: Transformers for image recognition at scale, arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.11929 (2020)

  50. [55]

    Z. Liu, Y. Lin, Y. Cao, H. Hu, Y. Wei, Z. Zhang, S. Lin, B. Guo, Swin transformer: Hierarchical vision transformer using shifted windows (2021). arXiv:2103.14030. URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.14030

  51. [56]

    Carion, F

    N. Carion, F. Massa, G. Synnaeve, N. Usunier, A. Kirillov, S. Zagoruyko, End-to-end object detection with transformers, in: European conference on computer vision, Springer, 2020, pp. 213–229

  52. [58]

    Singh, S

    G. Singh, S. Stefenon, K.-C. Yow, Interpretable visual transmission lines inspections using pseudo-prototypical part network, Machine Vision and Applications 34 (3) (2023). doi:10.1007/s00138-023-01390-6

  53. [59]

    Zhang, J

    S. Zhang, J. Wang, J. Tong, J. Zhang, M. Zhang, Cloud-Edge Fusion Based Abnormal Object Detection of Power Transmission Lines Using Incremental Learning, IEEE Access 8 (2020) 218694–218701. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020. 3037172

  54. [60]

    B. Wei, Z. Xie, Y. Liu, K. Wen, F. Deng, P. Zhang, Online Monitoring Method for Insulator Self-explosion Based on Edge Computing and Deep Learning, CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems 8 (6) (2022) 1684–1696. doi: 10.17775/CSEEJPES.2020.05910

  55. [61]

    Y. Zhai, X. Yang, Q. Wang, Z. Zhao, W. Zhao, Hybrid Knowledge R-CNN for Transmission Line Multifitting Detection, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 70 (2021) 1–12. doi:10.1109/TIM.2021.3096600

  56. [62]

    S. Rong, L. He, L. Du, Z. Li, S. Yu, Intelligent Detection of Vegetation Encroachment of Power Lines With Advanced Stereovision, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery 36 (6) (2021) 3477–3485. doi:10.1109/TPWRD.2020.3043433

  57. [63]

    X. Miao, X. Liu, J. Chen, S. Zhuang, J. Fan, H. Jiang, Insulator Detection in Aerial Images for Transmission Line Inspection Using Single Shot Multibox Detector, IEEE Access 7 (2019) 9945–9956. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2891123. 36

  58. [64]

    K. Dong, Q. Shen, C. Wang, Y. Dong, Q. Liu, Z. Lu, Z. Lu, Improved swin transformer-based defect detection method for transmission line patrol inspection images, Evolutionary Intelligence (2023). doi:10.1007/s12065-023-00837-z

  59. [66]

    N. Jain, J. Bedi, A. Anand, S. Godara, A transfer learning architecture to detect faulty insulators in powerlines, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery (2024)

  60. [67]

    H. Li, L. Liu, J. Du, F. Jiang, F. Guo, Q. Hu, L. Fan, An Improved YOLOv3 for Foreign Objects Detection of Transmission Lines, IEEE Access 10 (2022) 45620–45628. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3170696

  61. [68]

    Bharati, A

    P. Bharati, A. Pramanik, Deep learning techniques—r-cnn to mask r-cnn: a survey, Computational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition: Proceedings of CIPR 2019 (2020) 657–668

  62. [69]

    Huang, V

    J. Huang, V. Rathod, C. Sun, M. Zhu, A. Korattikara, A. Fathi, I. Fischer, Z. Wojna, Y. Song, S. Guadarrama, et al., Speed/accuracy trade-offs for modern convolutional object detectors, in: Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition, 2017, pp...

  63. [70]

    K. Han, Y. Wang, H. Chen, X. Chen, J. Guo, Z. Liu, Y. Tang, A. Xiao, C. Xu, Y. Xu, et al., A survey on vision transformer, IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence 45 (1) (2022) 87–110

  64. [71]

    J. Deng, W. Dong, R. Socher, L.-J. Li, K. Li, L. Fei-Fei, Imagenet: A large-scale hierarchical image database, in: 2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009, pp. 248–255. doi:10.1109/CVPR.2009.5206848

  65. [72]

    K. He, X. Zhang, S. Ren, J. Sun, Deep residual learning for image recognition, CoRR abs/1512.03385 (2015). arXiv: 1512.03385. URL http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03385

  66. [73]

    Simonyan, A

    K. Simonyan, A. Zisserman, Very deep convolutional networks for large-scale image recognition, arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.1556 (2014)

  67. [74]

    A. G. Howard, M. Zhu, B. Chen, D. Kalenichenko, W. Wang, T. Weyand, M. Andreetto, H. Adam, Mobilenets: Efficient convolutional neural networks for mobile vision applications, arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.04861 (2017)

  68. [75]

    M. Tan, Q. Le, Efficientnet: Rethinking model scaling for convolutional neural networks, in: International conference on machine learning, PMLR, 2019, pp. 6105–6114

  69. [76]

    Y. Cao, H. Xu, C. Su, Q. Yang, Accurate Glass Insulators Defect Detection in Power Transmission Grids Using Aerial Image Augmentation, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery 38 (2) (2023) 956–965. doi:10.1109/TPWRD.2022.3202958

  70. [77]

    P. Luo, B. Wang, H. Wang, F. Ma, H. Ma, L. Wang, An Ultrasmall Bolt Defect Detection Method for Transmission Line Inspection, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 72 (2023) 1–12. doi:10.1109/TIM.2023.3241994

  71. [78]

    S. F. Stefenon, G. Singh, K.-C. Yow, A. Cimatti, Semi-ProtoPNet Deep Neural Network for the Classification of Defective Power Grid Distribution Structures, Sensors 22 (13) (2022) 4859, number: 13 Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. doi:10.3390/s22134859

  72. [79]

    Z. Qiu, X. Zhu, C. Liao, W. Qu, Y. Yu, A Lightweight YOLOv4-EDAM Model for Accurate and Real-time Detection of Foreign Objects Suspended on Power Lines, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery 38 (2) (2023) 1329–1340. doi: 10.1109/TPWRD.2022.3213598

  73. [80]

    A. Odo, S. McKenna, D. Flynn, J. B. Vorstius, Aerial Image Analysis Using Deep Learning for Electrical Overhead Line Network Asset Management, IEEE Access 9 (2021) 146281–146295. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3123158

  74. [81]

    Y. Li, Z. Li, Y. Liu, G. Sheng, X. Jiang, Pin Bolt State Identification Using Cascaded Object Detection Networks, Frontiers in Energy Research 10 (2022). doi:10.3389/fenrg.2022.813945

  75. [82]

    Vaswani, N

    A. Vaswani, N. Shazeer, N. Parmar, J. Uszkoreit, L. Jones, A. N. Gomez, L. Kaiser, I. Polosukhin, Attention is all you need, Advances in neural information processing systems 30 (2017)

  76. [83]

    Q. Fan, W. Zhuo, Y. Tai, Few-shot object detection with attention-rpn and multi-relation detector, CoRR abs/1908.01998 (2019). arXiv:1908.01998. URL http://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01998

  77. [84]

    L. Kong, X. Zhu, G. Wang, Context semantics for small target detection in large-field images with two cascaded faster r-cnns, in: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 1069, IOP Publishing, 2018, p. 012138. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/ 1069/1/012138

  78. [85]

    Z. Ge, H. Li, R. Yang, H. Liu, S. Pei, Z. Jia, Z. Ma, Bird’s Nest Detection Algorithm for Transmission Lines Based on Deep Learning, in: 2022 3rd International Conference on Computer Vision, Image and Deep Learning & International Conference on Computer Engineering and Applica...

  79. [86]

    Y. Chen, H. Liu, J. Chen, J. Hu, E. Zheng, Insu-yolo: An insulator defect detection algorithm based on multiscale feature fusion, Electronics 12 (15) (2023). doi:10.3390/electronics12153210

  80. [87]

    Oberweger, A

    M. Oberweger, A. Wendel, H. Bischof, Visual recognition and fault detection for power line insulators, in: 19th computer vision winter workshop, 2014, pp. 1–8

  81. [88]

    G. Kang, S. Gao, L. Yu, D. Zhang, Deep Architecture for High-Speed Railway Insulator Surface Defect Detection: Denoising Autoencoder With Multitask Learning, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 68 (8) (2019) 2679–2690. doi:10.1109/TIM.2018.2868490

  82. [89]

    Z. Zhao, H. Qi, X. Fan, G. Xu, Y. Qi, Y. Zhai, K. Zhang, Image representation method based on relative layer entropy for insulator recognition, Entropy 22 (4) (2020) 419

  83. [91]

    Waleed, S

    D. Waleed, S. Mukhopadhyay, U. Tariq, A. H. El-Hag, Drone-Based Ceramic Insulators Condition Monitoring, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 70 (2021) 1–12. doi:10.1109/TIM.2021.3078538

  84. [92]

    Antwi-Bekoe, G

    E. Antwi-Bekoe, G. Liu, J.-P. Ainam, G. Sun, X. Xie, A deep learning approach for insulator instance segmentation and defect detection, Neural Computing and Applications 34 (9) (2022) 7253–7269. doi:10.1007/s00521-021-06792-z

  85. [93]

    Shuang, S

    F. Shuang, S. Han, Y. Li, T. Lu, RSIn-Dataset: An UA V-Based Insulator Detection Aerial Images Dataset and Benchmark, Drones 7 (2) (2023) 125, number: 2 Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. doi: 10.3390/drones7020125

  86. [94]

    Y. Zhai, Q. Wang, X. Yang, Z. Zhao, W. Zhao, Multi-Fitting Detection on Transmission Line Based on Cascade Reasoning Graph Network, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery 37 (6) (2022) 4858–4868. doi:10.1109/TPWRD.2022.3161124

  87. [96]

    Huang, Y

    X. Huang, Y. Wu, Y. Zhang, B. Li, Structural Defect Detection Technology of Transmission Line Damper Based on UA V Image, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 72 (2023) 1–14. doi:10.1109/TIM.2022.3228008

  88. [97]

    L. Yang, J. Fan, S. Xu, E. Li, Y. Liu, Vision-Based Power Line Segmentation With an Attention Fusion Network, IEEE Sensors Journal 22 (8) (2022) 8196–8205. doi:10.1109/JSEN.2022.3157336

  89. [98]

    L. Yang, S. Kong, J. Deng, H. Li, Y. Liu, DRA-Net: A Dual-Branch Residual Attention Network for Pixelwise Power Line Detection, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 72 (2023) 1–13. doi:10.1109/TIM.2023.3259047

  90. [100]

    Y. Wang, Q. Li, B. Chen, Image classification towards transmission line fault detection via learning deep quality-aware fine-grained categorization, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation 64 (2019). doi:10.1016/j. jvcir.2019.102647

  91. [101]

    C. Dong, K. Zhang, Z. Xie, J. Wang, X. Guo, C. Shi, Y. Xiao, Transmission line key components and defects detection based on meta-learning, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2024)

  92. [102]

    X. Liu, X. Miao, H. Jiang, J. Chen, M. Wu, Z. Chen, Tower masking mim: A self-supervised pretraining method for power line inspection, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 20 (1) (2023) 513–523

  93. [103]

    H. Chen, Z. He, B. Shi, T. Zhong, Research on Recognition Method of Electrical Components Based on YOLO V3, IEEE Access 7 (2019) 157818–157829. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2950053

  94. [104]

    C. Shi, X. Zheng, Z. Zhao, K. Zhang, Z. Su, Q. Lu, Lskf-yolo: Large selective kernel feature fusion network for power tower detection in high-resolution satellite remote sensing images, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2024)

  95. [105]

    Y. Liu, S. Pei, W. Fu, K. Zhang, X. Ji, Z. Yin, The discrimination method as applied to a deteriorated porcelain insulator used in transmission lines on the basis of a convolution neural network, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation 24 (6) (2017) 3559–356...

  96. [106]

    Ibrahim, A

    A. Ibrahim, A. Dalbah, A. Abualsaud, U. Tariq, A. El-Hag, Application of Machine Learning to Evaluate Insulator Surface Erosion, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 69 (2) (2020) 314–316. doi:10.1109/TIM. 2019.2956300

  97. [107]

    Mussina, A

    D. Mussina, A. Irmanova, P. K. Jamwal, M. Bagheri, Multi-Modal Data Fusion Using Deep Neural Network for Condition Monitoring of High Voltage Insulator, IEEE Access 8 (2020) 184486–184496. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3027825

  98. [108]

    S. F. Stefenon, K.-C. Yow, A. Nied, L. H. Meyer, Classification of distribution power grid structures using inception v3 deep neural network, Electrical Engineering 104 (6) (2022) 4557–4569. doi:10.1007/s00202-022-01641-1

  99. [109]

    S. S. Roy, A. Paramane, J. Singh, S. Chatterjee, A. K. Das, Accurate Sensing of Insulator Surface Contamination Using Customized Convolutional Neural Network, IEEE Sensors Letters 7 (1) (2023) 1–4. doi:10.1109/LSENS.2022.3232506

  100. [110]

    S. Wang, Y. Liu, Y. Qing, C. Wang, T. Lan, R. Yao, Detection of insulator defects with improved ResNeSt and region proposal network, IEEE Access 8 (2020) 184841–184850. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3029857

  101. [111]

    Q. Fu, J. Liu, X. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Y. Ou, R. Jiao, C. Li, G. Mazzanti, A Small-Sized Defect Detection Method for Overhead Transmission Lines Based on Convolutional Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 72 (2023) 1–12. doi:10.1109/TIM.2023.3298424

  102. [112]

    X. Liu, X. Miao, H. Jiang, J. Chen, Box-Point Detector: A Diagnosis Method for Insulator Faults in Power Lines Using Aerial Images and Convolutional Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery 36 (6) (2021) 3765–3773. doi:10.1109/TPWRD.2020.3048935

  103. [113]

    Jiang, X

    H. Jiang, X. Qiu, J. Chen, X. Liu, X. Miao, S. Zhuang, Insulator Fault Detection in Aerial Images Based on Ensemble Learning With Multi-Level Perception, IEEE Access 7 (2019) 61797–61810. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2915985

  104. [114]

    X. Tao, D. Zhang, Z. Wang, X. Liu, H. Zhang, D. Xu, Detection of Power Line Insulator Defects Using Aerial Images Analyzed With Convolutional Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems 50 (4) (2020) 1486–1498. doi:10.1109/TSMC.2018.2871750

  105. [115]

    Zhang, Y

    X. Zhang, Y. Zhang, J. Liu, C. Zhang, X. Xue, H. Zhang, W. Zhang, InsuDet: A Fault Detection Method for Insulators of Overhead Transmission Lines Using Convolutional Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 70 (2021) 1–12. doi:10.1109/TIM.2021.3120796

  106. [116]

    K. Hao, G. Chen, L. Zhao, Z. Li, Y. Liu, C. Wang, An Insulator Defect Detection Model in Aerial Images Based on Multiscale Feature Pyramid Network, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 71 (2022) 1–12. doi:10.1109/TIM.2022.3200861

  107. [117]

    S. Hao, B. An, X. Ma, X. Sun, T. He, S. Sun, Pkamnet: a transmission line insulator parallel-gap fault detection network based on prior knowledge transfer and attention mechanism, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery 38 (5) (2023) 38 3387–3397

  108. [118]

    Zhang, C

    S. Zhang, C. Qu, C. Ru, X. Wang, Z. Li, Multi-Objects Recognition and Self-Explosion Defect Detection Method for Insulators Based on Lightweight GhostNet-YOLOV4 Model Deployed Onboard UA V, IEEE Access 11 (2023) 39713– 39725. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3268708

  109. [119]

    Y. Wang, X. Song, L. Feng, Y. Zhai, Z. Zhao, S. Zhang, Q. Wang, Mci-gla plug-in suitable for yolo series models for transmission line insulator defect detection, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2024)

  110. [120]

    Y. Yi, Z. Chen, L. Wang, Intelligent Aging Diagnosis of Conductor in Smart Grid Using Label-Distribution Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 71 (2022) 1–8. doi:10.1109/ TIM.2022.3141160

  111. [121]

    Z. Zhao, H. Qi, Y. Qi, K. Zhang, Y. Zhai, W. Zhao, Detection Method Based on Automatic Visual Shape Clustering for Pin-Missing Defect in Transmission Lines, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 69 (9) (2020) 6080–6091. doi:10.1109/TIM.2020.2969057

  112. [122]

    Y. Xiao, Z. Li, D. Zhang, L. Teng, Detection of Pin Defects in Aerial Images Based on Cascaded Convolutional Neural Network, IEEE Access 9 (2021) 73071–73082. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3079172

  113. [123]

    Z. Zhao, R. Wang, Y. Li, Y. Zhai, W. Zhao, K. Zhang, A New Multilabel Recognition Framework for Transmission Lines Bolt Defects Based on the Combination of Semantic Knowledge and Structural Knowledge, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 71 (2022) 1–11. doi:10....

  114. [124]

    R. Jiao, Z. Fu, Y. Liu, Y. Zhang, Y. Song, A defective bolt detection model with attention-based roi fusion and cascaded classification network, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2023)

  115. [125]

    Z. Song, X. Huang, C. Ji, Y. Zhang, Deformable YOLOX: Detection and Rust Warning Method of Transmission Line Connection Fittings Based on Image Processing Technology, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 72 (2023) 1–21. doi:10.1109/TIM.2023.3238742

  116. [126]

    Zhang, B

    Y. Zhang, B. Li, J. Shang, X. Huang, P. Zhai, C. Geng, Dsa-net: An attention-guided network for real-time defect detec- tion of transmission line dampers applied to uav inspections, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2023)

  117. [127]

    Cortes, V

    C. Cortes, V. Vapnik, Support-vector networks, Machine learning 20 (1995) 273–297

  118. [128]

    Liang, C

    H. Liang, C. Zuo, W. Wei, Detection and Evaluation Method of Transmission Line Defects Based on Deep Learning, IEEE Access 8 (2020) 38448–38458. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2974798

  119. [129]

    X. Liu, X. Miao, H. Jiang, J. Chen, M. Wu, Z. Chen, Component detection for power line inspection using a graph-based relation guiding network, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 19 (9) (2022) 9280–9290

  120. [130]

    X. Liu, X. Miao, H. Jiang, J. Chen, Z. Chen, Fault diagnosis in power line inspection using normalized multihierarchy embedding matching, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 72 (2023) 1–10

  121. [131]

    J. Yi, J. Mao, H. Zhang, K. Zeng, Z. Tao, H. Zhong, S. Wang, Y. Wang, Pstl-net: A patchwise self-texture-learning network for transmission line inspection, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2023)

  122. [132]

    Zhong, K

    L. Zhong, K. Liu, Visual classification and detection of power inspection images based on federated learning, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications (2024)

  123. [133]

    J. Zhu, Y. Guo, F. Yue, H. Yuan, A. Yang, X. Wang, M. Rong, A Deep Learning Method to Detect Foreign Objects for Inspecting Power Transmission Lines, IEEE Access 8 (2020) 94065–94075. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2995608

  124. [134]

    Z. Bi, L. Jing, C. Sun, M. Shan, YOLOX++ for Transmission Line Abnormal Target Detection, IEEE Access 11 (2023) 38157–38167. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3268106

  125. [135]

    C. Yu, Y. Liu, W. Zhang, X. Zhang, Y. Zhang, X. Jiang, Foreign Objects Identification of Transmission Line Based on Improved YOLOv7, IEEE Access 11 (2023) 51997–52008. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3277954

  126. [136]

    Zhang, J

    J. Zhang, J. Wang, R. Song, G. Peng, T. Pu, S. Zhang, An Edge Visual Incremental Perception Framework Based on Deep Semi-supervised Learning for Monitoring Power Transmission Lines, CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems 9 (2) (2023) 759–768. doi:10.17775/CSEEJPES.2022.03120

  127. [137]

    T.-Y. Lin, P. Doll´ ar, R. Girshick, K. He, B. Hariharan, S. Belongie, Feature pyramid networks for object detection, in: Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition, 2017, pp. 2117–2125

  128. [138]

    Z. Ge, S. Liu, F. Wang, Z. Li, J. Sun, Yolox: Exceeding yolo series in 2021, arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.08430 (2021)

  129. [139]

    Everingham, L

    M. Everingham, L. Van Gool, C. K. Williams, J. Winn, A. Zisserman, The pascal visual object classes (voc) challenge, International journal of computer vision 88 (2010) 303–338

  130. [140]

    X. Wang, Y. Han, V. C. Leung, D. Niyato, X. Yan, X. Chen, Convergence of edge computing and deep learning: A comprehensive survey, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 22 (2) (2020) 869–904

  131. [141]

    W. Shi, J. Cao, Q. Zhang, Y. Li, L. Xu, Edge computing: Vision and challenges, IEEE internet of things journal 3 (5) (2016) 637–646

  132. [142]

    McMahan, E

    B. McMahan, E. Moore, D. Ramage, S. Hampson, B. A. y Arcas, Communication-efficient learning of deep networks from decentralized data, in: Artificial intelligence and statistics, PMLR, 2017, pp. 1273–1282

  133. [143]

    Karim, G

    S. Karim, G. Tong, J. Li, A. Qadir, U. Farooq, Y. Yu, Current advances and future perspectives of image fusion: A comprehensive review, Information Fusion 90 (2023) 185–217

  134. [144]

    Meher, S

    B. Meher, S. Agrawal, R. Panda, A. Abraham, A survey on region based image fusion methods, Information Fusion 48 (2019) 119–132

  135. [145]

    Shen-pei, L

    Z. Shen-pei, L. Xi, Q. Bing-chen, H. Hui, Research on insulator fault diagnosis and remote monitoring system based on infrared images, Procedia Computer Science 109 (2017) 1194–1199

  136. [146]

    J. Ma, W. Yu, P. Liang, C. Li, J. Jiang, Fusiongan: A generative adversarial network for infrared and visible image fusion, Information fusion 48 (2019) 11–26

  137. [147]

    S. Han, F. Yang, G. Yang, B. Gao, N. Zhang, D. Wang, Electrical equipment identification in infrared images based on 39 roi-selected cnn method, Electric Power Systems Research 188 (2020) 106534

  138. [148]

    C. Song, W. Xu, Z. Wang, S. Yu, P. Zeng, Z. Ju, Analysis on the impact of data augmentation on target recognition for uav-based transmission line inspection, Complexity 2020 (2020) 1–11

  139. [149]

    Goodfellow, J

    I. Goodfellow, J. Pouget-Abadie, M. Mirza, B. Xu, D. Warde-Farley, S. Ozair, A. Courville, Y. Bengio, Generative adversarial networks, Communications of the ACM 63 (11) (2020) 139–144

  140. [150]

    R. Ye, A. Boukerche, X.-S. Yu, C. Zhang, B. Yan, X.-J. Zhou, A data augmentation method for insulators based on cycle gan, Journal of Electronic Science and Technology (2024) 100250doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnlest.2024.100250. URL https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

  141. [151]

    J.-Y. Zhu, T. Park, P. Isola, A. A. Efros, Unpaired image-to-image translation using cycle-consistent adversarial networks, in: Proceedings of the IEEE international conference on computer vision, 2017, pp. 2223–2232

  142. [152]

    Raina, A

    R. Raina, A. Battle, H. Lee, B. Packer, A. Y. Ng, Self-taught learning: transfer learning from unlabeled data, in: Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Machine learning, 2007, pp. 759–766

  143. [153]

    Y. Wang, Q. Yao, J. T. Kwok, L. M. Ni, Generalizing from a few examples: A survey on few-shot learning, ACM computing surveys (csur) 53 (3) (2020) 1–34

  144. [154]

    C. Finn, P. Abbeel, S. Levine, Model-agnostic meta-learning for fast adaptation of deep networks, in: International conference on machine learning, PMLR, 2017, pp. 1126–1135

  145. [155]

    Dwyer, J

    B. Dwyer, J. Nelson, T. Hansen, et al., Roboflow (2024). URL https://roboflow.com

  146. [156]

    URL https://github.com/HumanSignal/awesome-data-labeling

    HumanSignal, Humansignal/awesome-data-labeling: A curated list of awesome data labeling tools (2024). URL https://github.com/HumanSignal/awesome-data-labeling

  147. [157]

    Tkachenko, M

    M. Tkachenko, M. Malyuk, A. Holmanyuk, N. Liubimov, Label Studio: Data labeling software, open source software available from https://github.com/heartexlabs/label-studio (2020). URL https://github.com/heartexlabs/label-studio

  148. [158]

    Kirillov, E

    A. Kirillov, E. Mintun, N. Ravi, H. Mao, C. Rolland, L. Gustafson, T. Xiao, S. Whitehead, A. C. Berg, W.-Y. Lo, et al., Segment anything, in: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2023, pp. 4015–4026

  149. [159]

    Zhou, A brief introduction to weakly supervised learning, National science review 5 (1) (2018) 44–53

    Z.-H. Zhou, A brief introduction to weakly supervised learning, National science review 5 (1) (2018) 44–53

  150. [160]

    H. Choi, G. Koo, B. J. Kim, S. W. Kim, Weakly supervised power line detection algorithm using a recursive noisy label update with refined broken line segments, Expert Systems with Applications 165 (2021) 113895

  151. [161]

    Ledig, L

    C. Ledig, L. Theis, F. Husz´ ar, J. Caballero, A. Cunningham, A. Acosta, A. Aitken, A. Tejani, J. Totz, Z. Wang, et al., Photo-realistic single image super-resolution using a generative adversarial network, in: Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern ...

  152. [162]

    G. X. Hu, Z. Yang, L. Hu, L. Huang, J. M. Han, et al., Small object detection with multiscale features, International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting 2018 (2018)

  153. [163]

    Defard, A

    T. Defard, A. Setkov, A. Loesch, R. Audigier, Padim: a patch distribution modeling framework for anomaly detection and localization, in: International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Springer, 2021, pp. 475–489

  154. [164]

    Batzner, L

    K. Batzner, L. Heckler, R. K¨ onig, Efficientad: Accurate visual anomaly detection at millisecond-level latencies, in: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, 2024, pp. 128–138

  155. [165]

    Tsai, P.-H

    D.-M. Tsai, P.-H. Jen, Autoencoder-based anomaly detection for surface defect inspection, Advanced Engineering Infor- matics 48 (2021) 101272

  156. [166]

    S. Sun, Y. Liu, X. Hu, W. Zhang, A semisupervised autoencoder-based method for anomaly detection in cutting tools, Journal of Manufacturing Processes 93 (2023) 315–327

  157. [167]

    K. Roth, L. Pemula, J. Zepeda, B. Sch¨ olkopf, T. Brox, P. Gehler, Towards total recall in industrial anomaly detection, in: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and pattern recognition, 2022, pp. 14318–14328

  158. [168]

    M. Yang, P. Wu, H. Feng, Memseg: A semi-supervised method for image surface defect detection using differences and commonalities, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 119 (2023) 105835

  159. [169]

    Zavrtanik, M

    V. Zavrtanik, M. Kristan, D. Skoˇ caj, Draem-a discriminatively trained reconstruction embedding for surface anomaly detection, in: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF international conference on computer vision, 2021, pp. 8330–8339

  160. [170]

    Ultralytics, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) — docs.ultralytics.com, https://docs.ultralytics.com/help/FAQ/, [Ac- cessed 18-02-2024] (2024)

  161. [171]

    Team, Keras documentation: Keras applications (2024)

    K. Team, Keras documentation: Keras applications (2024). URL https://keras.io/api/applications/

  162. [172]

    Chollet, Xception: Deep learning with depthwise separable convolutions, in: Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition, 2017, pp

    F. Chollet, Xception: Deep learning with depthwise separable convolutions, in: Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition, 2017, pp. 1251–1258. 40

Pith tools

Reviewed August 8, 2026 · model on record in the stance chip above.