Abstract:Aiming at the problems of large amount of calculation, single detection type and low detection accuracy in the existing insulator defect detection methods in power industry, a new insulator defect detection algorithm is proposed. Based on YOLOv11 model, Bi-level Routing Attention (BRA) attention mechanism is introduced into the terminal of backbone network and C2PSA module to enhance the anti-interference ability and feature extraction ability of the model. Dynamic convolution (DynamicConv) is used to replace ordinary convolution in C3K2 module, which further improves the detection ability of the model for small targets of insulator defects. In regression loss calculation, WIoU loss function is used to replace the original CIoU loss function, which enhances the positioning performance and generalization ability of the model and improves the detection speed. The experimental results show that mAP0.5 and mAP0.5-0.95 of the improved algorithm for insulator and various defects detection reach 84.8% and 62.6% respectively.