Abstract:Aiming at the problems of high missed detection rate and poor real-time performance in traditional detection of coal conveyor belt faults, research on visual recognition and localization of such faults in complex industrial environments was conducted. An improved YOLOv8 algorithm was adopted, and data augmentation methods like scale transformation and brightness adjustment were combined to expand the sample size. The network structure was optimized: attention mechanisms and lightweight design were introduced to enhance feature extraction capability and real-time performance; multi-scale fusion, BiFPN optimization and cross-level alignment were used to improve multi-scale detection ability; a dynamic loss function was designed to enhance recognition balance; and UNet was integrated to achieve refined segmentation. Experimental results show that the mean Average Precision (mAP) of fault recognition reaches 93.8%, the localization error is reduced to 0.8mm (sub-millimeter level), and the average detection frame rate exceeds 42 FPS. In complex environments such as strong light and high noise, the false detection rate is less than 6.2% and the missed detection rate is less than 5.5%, which meets the industrial application requirements for real-time and accurate detection of coal conveyor belt faults.