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Weakly supervised learning with convolutional neural networks for power line localization

  • Sang Jun Lee
  • , Jong Pil Yun
  • , Hyeyeon Choi
  • , Wookyong Kwon
  • , Gyogwon Koo
  • , Sang Woo Kim
  • Pohang University of Science and Technology
  • Korea Institute of Industrial Technology

Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference paperpeer-review

Abstract

Localization of power lines is important to monitor electricity infrastructures by using unmanned aerial vehicles. Although deep learning is a powerful method to solve computer vision problems, constructing pixel-level ground-truth data for object localization is an exhausting task. This paper proposes a weakly supervised learning algorithm for the localization of power lines by only using image-level class labels. The proposed algorithm classifies sub-regions by using a sliding window and convolutional neural network (CNN). A sub-region is filtered out if it is classified into an image without any power line. If a sub-region is classified into an image with a power line, then its feature maps of intermediate convolutional layers are combined to visualize the location of the power line. Experiments were conducted on actual aerial images to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2017 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1-8
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781538627259
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017.07.1
Event2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2017 - Honolulu, United States
Duration: 2017.11.272017.12.1

Publication series

Name2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2017 - Proceedings
Volume2018-January

Conference

Conference2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHonolulu
Period17.11.2717.12.1

Keywords

  • Convolutional neural network
  • electricity transmission line
  • object localization
  • weakly supervised learning

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