Precision and Efficiency in Dam Crack Inspection: A Lightweight Object Detection Method Based on Joint Distillation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

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作者
Dong, Hangcheng [1 ]
Wang, Nan [2 ]
Fu, Dongge [1 ]
Wei, Fupeng [3 ]
Liu, Guodong [1 ]
Liu, Bingguo [1 ]
机构
[1] Harbin Inst Technol, Sch Instrumentat Sci & Engn, Harbin 150001, Peoples R China
[2] Hainan Normal Univ, Sch Informat Sci & Technol, Haikou 571158, Peoples R China
[3] North China Univ Water Resources & Elect Power, Sch Informat Engn, Zhengzhou 450045, Peoples R China
关键词
dam crack inspection; object detection; lightweight model; knowledge distillation;
D O I
10.3390/drones8110692
中图分类号
TP7 [遥感技术];
学科分类号
081102 ; 0816 ; 081602 ; 083002 ; 1404 ;
摘要
Dams in their natural environment will gradually develop cracks and other forms of damage. If not detected and repaired in time, the structural strength of the dam may be reduced, and it may even collapse. Repairing cracks and defects in dams is very important to ensure their normal operation. Traditional detection methods rely on manual inspection, which consumes a lot of time and labor, while deep learning methods can greatly alleviate this problem. However, previous studies have often focused on how to better detect crack defects, with the corresponding image resolution not being particularly high. In this study, targeting the scenario of real-time detection by drones, we propose an automatic detection method for dam crack targets directly on high-resolution remote sensing images. First, for high-resolution remote sensing images, we designed a sliding window processing method and proposed corresponding methods to eliminate redundant detection frames. Then, we introduced a Gaussian distribution in the loss function to calculate the similarity of predicted frames and incorporated a self-attention mechanism in the spatial pooling module to further enhance the detection performance of crack targets at various scales. Finally, we proposed a pruning-after-distillation scheme, using the compressed model as the student and the pre-compression model as the teacher and proposed a joint distillation method that allows more efficient distillation under this compression relationship between teacher and student models. Ultimately, a high-performance target detection model can be deployed in a more lightweight form for field operations such as UAV patrols. Experimental results show that our method achieves an mAP of 80.4%, with a parameter count of only 0.725 M, providing strong support for future tasks such as UAV field inspections.
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