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In order to address the issue of the high false alarm rate and poor generalization performance of wildfire image recognition in complex power transmission corridor environments, a wildfire image recognition method based on an improved AlexNet is proposed in this paper. The proposed method improves the description of flame and smoke properties at different scales by designing a reparameterized multi-scale feature extraction structure, and effectively alleviates the influence of strong light reflection and fire-like interference at night by using lightweight multi-scale attention and hybrid pooling attention mechanisms. A wildfire image dataset is constructed based on 1246 on-site images of the power transmission corridor captured by a visual monitoring device and 600 wildfire images downloaded from the internet, and tested in real-world imbalanced distribution scenarios. The experimental results show that the proposed method can recognize wildfire images with an accuracy of 96.9% and an F1 value of 94.9% on the test dataset, which is much higher than that of the original AlexNet, and has a strong ability to adapt to cross-dataset tests. The research work can provide technical support for online monitoring and operation and maintenance of wildfires in power transmission corridors.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/a19040245","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,25]],"date-time":"2026-03-25T09:11:14Z","timestamp":1774429874000},"page":"245","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["An Improved AlexNet-Based Image Recognition Method for Transmission Line Wildfires"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Zilin","family":"Zhao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electrical and New Energy, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Guoyong","family":"Duan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Geological Hazards on Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Chen, W., Zhou, Y., Zhou, E., Xiang, Z., Zhou, W., and Lu, J. 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