Construction of Visual Inspection Database for Catenary on High-speed Railways

Yan-Guo Wang ,Haiying Wang,Jing Shi,Dapeng Xie,Kexin Xiao,Xiangdong Li ,Hailang Li ,Jincai Li

doi:10.1051/matecconf/201712401006

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https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201712401006

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Abstract

With the rapid development of computer vision, techniques of machine vision and visual inspection have been applied into the inspection of catenary on high-speed railways. Visual inspection systems have been developed and super-high-resolution images are captured to check the status of catenary components. Automatic recognition of defects becomes very important since the number of images is too huge to be manually checked one by one. However, it is not easy for the development of recognition algorithms on catenary components. There are many types of defects to be checked on different kinds of catenary components, but the number of defect images is too small in real world. In this paper, a solution was proposed and implemented. An on-site data acquisition system was designed and developed, and different types of defects were manually made on different catenary components beforehand. Finally, a visual inspection database was successfully constructed, including plenty of different kinds of catenary components, different types of defects, in different inspection conditions. The visual inspection database will be of great use in the development and test of recognition algorithms for catenary.

Highlights

Catenary [1] is the one of the main infrastructures along high-speed railways which supplies power for the trains
With the rapid development of computer vision [2, 3], techniques of machine vision and visual inspection have been applied into the inspection of catenary [4, 5]
Development and test of recognition algorithms rely on a visual inspection database with image data of high quality, which should cover different catenary components and different types of defects

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Introduction

Catenary [1] is the one of the main infrastructures along high-speed railways which supplies power for the trains. Several visual inspection systems have been developed and super-highresolution images are captured to check the status of catenary components [6,7,8]. Development and test of recognition algorithms rely on a visual inspection database with image data of high quality, which should cover different catenary components and different types of defects. Defects on catenary components are rarely seen in real world and difficult to be collected, so that the number of defect images is too small for the development and test of recognition algorithms. An on-site data acquisition system was designed and developed, and different types of defects were manually made on different catenary components beforehand. A visual inspection database was successfully constructed, including plenty of different kinds of catenary components, different types of defects, in different inspection conditions.

Data acquisition system

Visual inspection database