Challenges exist in the power generation efficiency and safety of marine current turbines (MCTs), as the MCT blades are often attached by foreign objects when operating underwater. It is essential for the stable operation of an MCT to recognize attachments timely and accurately. However, underwater imaging suffers from blurry edges due to light attenuation and scattering. It is challenging for accurate recognition through underwater images since blurry edges result in unclear edge features. To alleviate this problem, LAW-IFF Net is proposed in this paper, which mainly contains two parts. Firstly, this paper proposes to transform the local averages of feature maps into weight matrices, namely the locally average weighting (LAW) mechanism. It is intended to alleviate the edge gradient reduction caused by blurry edges. Secondly, the proposed improved feature fusion (IFF) mechanism aims to overcome the deviation caused by the feature fusion of different attention branches based on spatial attention. At the same time, the lightweight networks are combined with the proposed method to improve the computation speed and ensure the timeliness of recognition. Experimental results on the MCT dataset show the superiority of the proposed method in terms of accuracy and speed of attachment recognition in images with blurry edges. The experimental results on publicly available datasets show the applicability of the proposed method to other underwater images.


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    Titel :

    LAW-IFF Net: A semantic segmentation method for recognition of marine current turbine blade attachments under blurry edges


    Beteiligte:
    Qi, Fei (Autor:in) / Wang, Tianzhen (Autor:in) / Wang, Xiaohang (Autor:in) / Chen, Lisu (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.08.2024




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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