PRD-YOLOv11: Efficient and Accurate Textile Tow Defect Detection via Progressive Representation Distillation
摘要
Textile tow defect detection faces challenges such as slow speed, small object sizes, and low accuracy. To address these issues, we propose PRD-YOLOv11, a model that improves accuracy while maintaining speed. A key innovation is the Progressive Feature Compression Downsampling (PFCD) method, which uses layered compression and decompression to reduce parameters and memory usage while preserving semantic information. PFCD includes two versions: Complex PFCD (CPFCD) for shallow feature extraction and Simple PFCD (SPFCD) for deep feature extraction, balancing efficiency and representation. Additionally, the Region-Guided Dynamic Attention (RGA) mechanism enhances feature extraction by adaptively allocating weights and aggregating context features, improving robustness in complex backgrounds. We also introduce Dual-Stream Loss (DS) to accelerate convergence and enhance detection capabilities beyond traditional IoU metrics. Experiments on our custom Cellulose Tow (CT) dataset show PRD-YOLOv11 achieves an mAP of 69.3% (a 4.7% improvement) and F1 score of 70.2% (a 6.6% improvement), with only a 0.3 GFLOPs increase, and a real-time detection speed of 47 FPS. To further validate the model’s generalization ability, we tested it on public datasets NEU, it achieves mAP scores of 80.7%, demonstrating superior performance.