Wind power generation is a widely used power generation technology. Among these, the wind turbine blade is an important part of a wind turbine. If the wind turbine blade is damaged, it will cause serious consequences. The traditional methods of defect detection for wind turbine blades are mainly manual detection and acoustic nondestructive detection, which are unsafe and time-consuming, and have low accuracy. In order to detect the defects on wind turbine blades more safely, conveniently, and accurately, this paper studied a defect detection method for wind turbine blades based on digital image processing. Because the log-Gabor filter used needed to extract features through multiple filter templates, the number of output images was large. Firstly, this paper used the Lévy flight strategy to improve the PSO algorithm to create the LPSO algorithm. The improved LPSO algorithm could successfully solve the PSO algorithm’s problem of falling into the local optimal solution. Then, the LPSO algorithm and log-Gabor filter were used to generate an adaptive filter, which could directly output the optimal results in multiple feature extraction images. Finally, a classifier based on HOG + SVM was used to identify and classify the defect types. The method extracted and identified the scratch-type, crack-type, sand-hole-type, and spot-type defects, and the recognition rate was more than 92%.
The water shoreline is essential for unmanned surface vessels (USVs) to navigate autonomously. Many existing traditional water shoreline detections approaches not only fail to overcome the effects of water reflections, image inversions, and other factors but are also unsuitable for water shoreline detection in a variety of weather conditions and in complex inland river scenarios. Therefore, we propose a water shoreline detection approach based on an enhanced Pyramid Scene Parsing Network (PSPNet). We introduce a migration learning approach to the PSPNet feature backbone extraction network Resnet50 to improve training efficiency and add a Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) attention mechanism module to improve the robustness of training. In addition, the pyramid pooling module adds the branch of the atrous convolution module. Finally, the waterfront segmentation map is processed by the Canny edge detection method, which detects the water shorelines. For the network's training and validation, we use the USVInland dataset, the world's first urban inland driverless dataset. The experimental results show that the segmentation accuracy MIou of this paper is 96.87% and Accuracy is 98.41, which are higher than some mainstream algorithms. It is capable of detecting water shorelines accurately in a variety of interior river situations.
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