Identification of Insulator Contamination Status Based on Multi-spectral Image Fusion and Radial Basis Function Neural Network

Abstract

Insulator contamination monitoring is an important way to avoid insulator contamination and maintain insulation performance. In order to ensure power supply and achieve contactless detection of insulator contamination status, a method is proposed in this paper to identify insulator contamination status by adopting infrared, ultraviolet, and visible multi-spectral image information fusion. An insulator with different contamination states in a number of substations is taken as the research object in this paper. The image segmentation is performed by using the seed region growth method to extract the infrared, ultraviolet and visible features of the insulator surface, and the radial basis function neural network learning algorithm is used to classify and decompose and fuse the images according to their different local area energies. The comparison of the recognition rates using infrared and ultraviolet features with those fused shows that the method has significant advantages and provides a new method for the detection of insulator contamination status.