LYU Xiaojie, PAN Wei, WANG Fan, et al. PvIR-DCANet Based Infrared Image Defect Detection for Photovoltaic Modules[J]. 2025, 53(8): 105-113. DOI: 10.20204/j.sp.2025.08013.
PvIR-DCANet Based Infrared Image Defect Detection for Photovoltaic Modules
To address the accuracy degradation caused by uneven illumination and reflection interference in visible-light-based defect detection of photovoltaic (PV) modules, this study proposes PvIR-DCANet—an infrared image defect detection network incorporating coordinated attention and bidirectional feature fusion. The network introduces a coordinated attention mechanism (CAM) into the backbone to enhance sensitivity to subtle defects. A bidirectional dense feature pyramid network (BDFPN) is designed to strengthen multi-scale feature fusion, improving detection performance across varying defect sizes. Simultaneously, the SIoU loss function optimizes localization accuracy for densely distributed small-scale defects. Experimental results demonstrate that PvIR-DCANet achieves 92.0% mAP with 57.9 FPS detection speed, striking an optimal balance between precision and real-time performance. This method exhibits high accuracy and engineering practicality for efficient PV module defect detection in complex scenarios.
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