With the installation and use of large-scale photovoltaic systems around the world, the detection of photovoltaic system operation and maintenance has become increasingly important. This research uses a convolutional neural network training model to detect and classify the infrared near-field images of photovoltaic modules from small-scale photovoltaic plants in the laboratory. This model classifies the images into two categories: with and without hot spots, with a classification accuracy of 96.58%. The experimental results show that the convolutional neural network training model has a good classification result