An Improved Faster R-CNN for High-Speed Railway Dropper Detection
Open Access
- 8 June 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Access
- Vol. 8, 105622-105633
- https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.3000506
Abstract
Overhead contact systems (OCSs) are the power supply facility of high-speed trains and plays a vital role in the operation of high-speed trains. The dropper is an important guarantee for the suspension system of the OCS. Faults of the dropper, such as slack and breakage, can cause a certain threat to the power supply system. How to use artificial intelligence technologies to detect faults is an urgent technical problem to be solved. Because droppers are very small in whole images, a feasible solution to the problem is to identify and locate the droppers first, then segment them, and then identify the fault type of the segmented droppers. This paper proposes an improved Faster R-CNN algorithm that can accurately identify and locate droppers. The innovations of the method consist of two parts. First, a balanced attention feature pyramid network (BA-FPN) is used to predict the detection anchor. Based on the attention mechanism, BA-FPN performs feature fusion on feature maps of different levels of the feature pyramid network to balance the original features of each layer. After that, a center-point rectangle loss (CR Loss) is designed as the bounding box regression loss function of Faster R-CNN. Through a center-point rectangle penalty term, the anchor box quickly moves closer to the ground-truth box during the training process. We validate the improved Faster R-CNN through extensive experiments on the VOC 2012 and MSCOCO 2014 datasets. Experimental results prove the effectiveness of the proposed network combined with attention feature fusion and center-point rectangle loss. On the OCS dataset, the accuracy using the combination of the improved Faster R-CNN and ResNet-101 reached 86.8% mAP@0.5 and 83.9% mAP@0.7, which was the best performance among all results.Keywords
Funding Information
- 2018 Major Science and Technology Special Project of China Railway Construction Corporation (18-A02)
- Xi’an Scientific and Technological Innovation Project (201809164CX5JC6)
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