Inspection of exterior substance on high-speed train bottom based on improved deep learning method

Abstract

Abstract When a high-speed train is running, exterior substances, such as rail-side plastic bags, are easily rolled into the bogies, cables and equipment gaps, which can easily cause smoke, odor and even equipment short-circuits and fires. Current inspection methods have many disadvantages. To overcome these defects, this paper presents a fast intelligent inspection model based on the YOLO V3 deep learning method for exterior substance inspection. We utilized the densely convolutional network as the feature extractor to enhances the feature propagation and ensure maximum information flow in the YOLO V3 method. Spatial pyramid pooling networks was used in the YOLO V3 method to reduce context information loss. The transfer learning and data augmentation technologies were applied to make the present method easier to train. Compared with other method, the proposed method shows satisfactory performance in terms of precision and recall, which is the stare-of-art exterior substance inspection method.