Research on Improving Denoising Performance of ROI Computer Vision Method for Transmission Tower Displacement Identification

Kai Zhang (), Jiahao Liu, Yuxue Li, Chao Sun and Laiyi Zhang
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Kai Zhang: School of Civil Engineering, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, Shijiazhuang 050043, China
Jiahao Liu: School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Yuxue Li: School of Civil Engineering, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, Shijiazhuang 050043, China
Chao Sun: School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Laiyi Zhang: Power China Hebei Electric Power Engineering Co., Ltd., Shijiazhuang 050031, China

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: The health monitoring technology of transmission towers based on vibration data had become a research hotspot. At present, vibration data mainly relied on sensors installed on the tower, which was time-consuming and laborious. Nevertheless, the ROI computer vision method could achieve long-distance, multi-point, and non-contact monitoring, which offers a new possibility for the structure-safety identification of power transmission towers. However, transmission towers are generally located in the field environment, and the background is complicated, resulting in the ROI key point method for vibration data acquisition encountering various types of noise. Thus, the key point in practice was clearing the noise and reducing the impact of noise on identification accuracy. The subpixel corner method was used to detect a minor error with the research object of pixel sets. The dilation + erosion method could reduce image noise. Under white noise with a variance of 0.05, the dilation + erosion could reduce average error ( E mae ) and mean square error ( E mse ) by 27% and 23% and increase percentages of data with absolute error less than 5 mm and 10 mm in the total number of data ( σ 5 and σ 10 ) by 8% and 4.3%, respectively, which was compared to median filter + sharpen. The histogram equalization method was used to balance background lighting conditions and reduce identification errors from non-uniform illumination. E mae and E mse were reduced by 92% and 99%, and σ 5 and σ 10 were increased by 5 and 3 times, respectively, and the identification time was cut by 62% with the histogram equalization method. Under white noise with a variance of 0.15 or lower, the three methods combined increased the numerical stability of E mae , E mse , σ 5 , and σ 10 , which indicated that the combination of the three methods could improve the anti-noise performance, robustness, and identification accuracy of the ROI computer vision method for transmission tower displacement identification.

Keywords: computer vision; power transmission tower; displacement identification; noise; subpixel corner; dilation; erosion; histogram equalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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