Accurate insulator defect detection in power transmission lines using semi-supervised hybrid DETR with advanced loss methods
摘要
The reliability and safety of power transmission grids critically depend on the condition of insulators, making efficient and accurate defect detection essential. While CNN-based object detection frameworks like YOLO offer a reasonable balance between speed and accuracy, they face limitations in handling class imbalance and complex backgrounds. Transformer-based detectors (e.g., DETR) eliminate the need for Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS) but suffer from high computational costs and slower convergence. To address these challenges, the proposed method is a hybrid Detection Transformer (DETR) framework for insulator defect detection, combining semi-supervised learning with advanced loss methods. Our method introduces Stage-wise Hybrid Matching for generating high-quality pseudo-labels, focal loss to address data imbalance, and Cross-view Query Consistency to enhance feature robustness. Additionally, encoder complexity is optimized, ensuring scalability for UAV- based inspections. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed hybrid DETR achieves 85 FPS, surpasses state-of-the-art detectors, including YOLO and DETR variants, achieving superior accuracy and speed across diverse and challenging datasets.