Enterprise AI Analysis
Foreign object detection in power transmission lines using SESYOLO
Authors: Pingting Duan, Xuran Zhang, Xiao Liang, Yuanjia Cui & Hetian Wang
Published Online: 03 March 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-41080-7
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Backbone: Optimized Feature Extraction
Challenge: Standard CNNs struggle with redundant feature extraction and diverse foreign objects on transmission lines, leading to computational overhead.
Solution: The integration of SCConv before the SPPF layer in YOLOv8n enhances spatial-channel feature encoding for small-object detection. This lightweight modification reduces redundancy in feature maps, improving the quality of input features for the SPPF layer and boosting overall model accuracy while preserving speed.
Neck: Efficient Multi-Scale Feature Fusion
Challenge: Unidirectional information flow in traditional FPNs limits effective feature fusion across scales, especially for small objects in aerial imagery.
Solution: Efficient RepGFPN redesigns the neck network by compressing lateral pathways, modifying upsampling ratios, and using fewer fusion operations. It optimizes feature interaction mechanisms by eliminating unnecessary upsampling steps and integrates re-parameterization techniques, achieving an excellent balance between real-time performance and accuracy for multi-scale object detection.
Head: Enhanced Detection Performance
Challenge: Detecting faint or occluded targets in cluttered environments requires significant attention recalibration without increasing computational load.
Solution: The new SE-Detect head, based on a simplified Squeeze-and-Excitation attention mechanism, explicitly models dependencies between feature channels. It assigns high weights to critical texture and color features of small targets while ignoring background noise, dynamically recalibrating channel features for enhanced detection performance.
Loss Function: Robust Bounding Box Regression
Challenge: Existing loss functions may struggle with varying anchor box quality, affecting localization accuracy and generalization.
Solution: The WIoU v3 mechanism is employed, utilizing a dynamic non-monotonic strategy with an outlier parameter (β). This balances the weighting of the loss function, assigning lower weights to high-quality anchor boxes and mitigating adverse gradient effects from low-quality ones. This encourages the model to focus on average quality samples, significantly enhancing overall performance.
Feature Distillation: Boosting Model Accuracy
Challenge: Transferring dark knowledge effectively from a teacher to a student model in YOLO series, especially with complex hyperparameter tuning and noisy features.
Solution: A two-phase distillation strategy is adopted, starting with training in a strong mosaic domain for 290 epochs, followed by fine-tuning in a non-mosaic domain for 10 epochs without further distillation. It incorporates an alignment module and uses the standard deviation of each channel as a temperature coefficient for KL loss, enhancing knowledge transfer and improving mAP@.5 by 3.1%.
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Total Images in FOD24 Dataset
The FOD24 dataset was constructed using HSV enhancement, random blur, noise addition, simulated weather conditions, and AIGC for sample augmentation, addressing imbalance issues and providing comprehensive data for foreign object detection on power transmission lines.
Enterprise Process Flow
SCConv for optimized feature extraction
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Efficient RepGFPN for multi-scale feature fusion
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SE-Detect head for enhanced detection
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WIoU v3 for robust loss weighting
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Distillation strategy for improved accuracy
SESYOLO integrates SCConv for enhanced feature extraction, Efficient RepGFPN for efficient multi-scale fusion, SE-Detect for lightweight attention, and WIoU v3 for robust loss weighting, alongside a distillation strategy, to achieve high-precision, low-latency foreign object detection on power transmission lines.
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Increase in mAP@.5 from Distillation
The distillation strategy, comprising two phases (strong mosaic domain training then non-mosaic fine-tuning) and incorporating an alignment module and dynamic temperature coefficient, boosts mAP@.5 by 3.1%, optimizing knowledge transfer from a teacher network.
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A direct comparison shows SESYOLO significantly outperforms YOLOv8n across key metrics, especially mAP, due to its specialized architectural enhancements, while maintaining a competitive inference speed.
High-Precision Bird's Nest Detection
SESYOLO achieved a remarkable 93.9% mAP@.5 for bird's nest detection, a critical foreign object category. This significant improvement (4.3 percentage points over YOLOv8n's 89.6%) highlights the model's enhanced capability in identifying small, irregular, and often camouflaged objects in complex power line environments, directly contributing to increased operational safety and reduced outage risks.
mAP@.5 for Bird Nests: 93.9%
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