A lightweight network for photovoltaic cell defect detection in electroluminescence images based on neural architecture search and knowledge distillation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07455v1
• Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 04:00:35 GMT
• Title: A lightweight network for photovoltaic cell defect detection in electroluminescence images based on neural architecture search and knowledge distillation
• Authors: Jinxia Zhang, Xinyi Chen, Haikun Wei, Kanjian Zhang
• Abstract summary: convolutional neural network (CNN) has been widely used in the existing automatic defect detection of PV cells. We propose a novel lightweight high-performance model for automatic defect detection of PV cells based on neural architecture search and knowledge distillation. The proposed lightweight high-performance model can be easily deployed to the end devices of the actual industrial projects and retain the accuracy.
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• Abstract: Nowadays, the rapid development of photovoltaic(PV) power stations requires increasingly reliable maintenance and fault diagnosis of PV modules in the field. Due to the effectiveness, convolutional neural network (CNN) has been widely used in the existing automatic defect detection of PV cells. However, the parameters of these CNN-based models are very large, which require stringent hardware resources and it is difficult to be applied in actual industrial projects. To solve these problems, we propose a novel lightweight high-performance model for automatic defect detection of PV cells in electroluminescence(EL) images based on neural architecture search and knowledge distillation. To auto-design an effective lightweight model, we introduce neural architecture search to the field of PV cell defect classification for the first time. Since the defect can be any size, we design a proper search structure of network to better exploit the multi-scale characteristic. To improve the overall performance of the searched lightweight model, we further transfer the knowledge learned by the existing pre-trained large-scale model based on knowledge distillation. Different kinds of knowledge are exploited and transferred, including attention information, feature information, logit information and task-oriented information. Experiments have demonstrated that the proposed model achieves the state-of-the-art performance on the public PV cell dataset of EL images under online data augmentation with accuracy of 91.74% and the parameters of 1.85M. The proposed lightweight high-performance model can be easily deployed to the end devices of the actual industrial projects and retain the accuracy.

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