Rail fasteners play a crucial role in the heavy haul railway lines, serving as vital components of railway infrastructure. However, due to the intricate nature of the heavy haul railway environment, fasteners can often be obscured, leading to misjudgments and inaccuracies for the existing defect detection algorithms. To address this challenge, a novel method to detect rail fastener defects based on an improved YOLOv8 model is proposed. Initially, a new dataset specifically tailored for fastener defect detection in heavy haul railway lines is constructed utilizing onsite data. To enrich feature information and enhance detection accuracy, multiple improvements are introduced, including the addition of a P6 feature layer, the design of a cross-layer connection neck (CCNeck) feature fusion network, and the introduction of the DySample up-sampling operator. Furthermore, the Quality Focal Loss (QFL) function is introduced to address class imbalance problem within the datasets. Finally, experiments are conducted and the results demonstrate significant enhancements in detection mean average precision (mAP) compared to existing state-of-the-art networks.


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    Title :

    Rail Fastener Defect Detection of Heavy Haul Railway Based on Improved YOLOv8


    Contributors:
    Li, Xinman (author) / Cao, Yuan (author) / Wang, Feng (author) / Sun, Yongkui (author) / Su, Shuai (author) / Yang, Weifeng (author) / Wang, Wenkun (author)


    Publication date :

    2024-09-24


    Size :

    8650262 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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