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Insulator defect detection is performed against two main engineering problems: 1. The scarcity of defect images, which leads to a network overfitting problem. 2. The small object detection, which is caused by the long aerial photography distance, and the low resolution of the insulator defect area pictures. In this study, firstly, the super-resolution reconstruction method is used to augment the dataset, which can not only solve the overfitting problem but also enrich the image texture features and pixel values of defect areas. Secondly, in the process of insulator defect detection, a two-stage cascading method is used. In the first stage, the rotated object detection algorithm is used to realize the object location of insulator strings, and then images of the identified insulators are cropped to reduce the proportion of the background area in defect images. In the second stage, YOLO v5 is used for the detection of insulator caps that are missing defects. The method proposed shows good detection effect on the self-built training set which contains only 85 images captured from real inspection environments. 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