MS-YOLO: A Satellite Remote Sensing Image Power Tower Detection Algorithm Based on Multi-Scale Feature Extraction and Small Object Enhancement
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Abstract
Satellite remote sensing has become a vital data source for monitoring power infrastructure. As critical infrastructure supporting power line operations, the monitoring and maintenance of power towers have become core elements in ensuring grid reliability. However, power tower detection in satellite remote sensing imagery remains challenging because of the substantial scale differences between distribution and transmission towers, the weak feature representation of small objects, and interference from complex backgrounds. To address these challenges, this paper proposes MS-YOLO, a power tower detection algorithm for satellite remote sensing imagery based on multi-scale feature extraction and small object enhancement. First, the poly kernel inception bottleneck (PKI_Bottleneck) module is introduced into the YOLOv9 backbone, enhancing the extraction of scale-diverse features and contextual cues while limiting interference from complex backgrounds. Second, the dual-branch semantic-spatial synergy attention (DSSA) module is introduced. By decoupling deep semantic and shallow spatial information, it effectively preserves small object features while suppressing environmental noise, enhancing the perception capability for small tower objects. Finally, a dynamic focal-weighted intersection over union (DFW-IoU) loss function is introduced to optimize the balance between easy and difficult samples, compelling the model to prioritize small objects and challenging samples during gradient updates. Experimental results demonstrate that MS-YOLO achieves mAP50 values of 79.1% and 95.7% on the two datasets used in this paper, representing improvements of 4.1% and 3.4% over baseline model. These results validate the effectiveness of the improved model for power tower detection in complex remote sensing scenarios.
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Affiliations
Yanzhao Electric Power Laboratory, North China Electric Power University, Baoding 071003, China
Department of Electronic and Communication Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Baoding 071003, China
Hebei Key Laboratory of Power Internet of Things Technology, North China Electric Power University, Baoding 071003, China
Hebei Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Technology for Power Internet of Things, North China Electric Power University, Baoding 071003, China
Funding
National Natural Science Foundation of China · Hebei Provincial Natural Science Foundation Beijing Tianjin Hebei Basic Research Cooperation Special Project · Central Guidance Fund Project for Local Scientific and Technological Development of Hebei Province · Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
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