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In this paper, we provide an automatic detection method for component defects through patrolling inspection by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). We constructed a dataset of vibration dampers and insulators (DVDI) on transmission lines in images obtained by the UAV. It is difficult to detect defects in vibration dampers and insulators from UAV images, as these components and their defective parts are very small parts of the images, and the components vary greatly in terms of their shape and color and are easily confused with the background. In view of this, we use the end-to-end coordinate attention and bidirectional feature pyramid network \u201cyou only look once\u201d (BC-YOLO) to detect component defects. To make the network focus on the features of vibration dampers and insulators rather than the complex backgrounds, we added the coordinate attention (CA) module to YOLOv5. CA encodes each channel separately along the vertical and horizontal directions, which allows the attention module to simultaneously capture remote spatial interactions with precise location information and helps the network locate targets of interest more accurately. In the multiscale feature fusion stage, different input features have different resolutions, and their contributions to the fused output features are usually unequal. However, PANet treats each input feature equally and simply sums them up without distinction. In this paper, we replace the original PANet feature fusion framework in YOLOv5 with a bidirectional feature pyramid network (BiFPN). BiFPN introduces learnable weights to learn the importance of different features, which can make the network focus more on the feature mapping that contributes more to the output features. To verify the effectiveness of our method, we conducted a test in DVDI, and its mAP@0.5 reached 89.1%, a value 2.7% higher than for YOLOv5.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14205176","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,17]],"date-time":"2022-10-17T03:43:58Z","timestamp":1665978238000},"page":"5176","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":95,"title":["A Defect Detection Method Based on BC-YOLO for Transmission Line Components in UAV Remote Sensing Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Wenxia","family":"Bao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xiang","family":"Du","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nian","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mu","family":"Yuan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xianjun","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1599","DOI":"10.1109\/TPWRD.2019.2944741","article-title":"IN-YOLO: Real-time detection of outdoor high voltage insulators using UAV imaging. 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