Results and Discussion Proposed approach works in two phases wherein the first phase deals with locating the potential hotspots that need to be examined while the second
There is an increasing interest towards the deep detection of defects in several industrial products (e.g. Sarpietro et al. [] developed a deep pipeline for classification of defect
Photovoltaic (PV) cell defect detection has become a prominent problem in the development of the PV industry; however, the entire industry lacks effective technical means. In this paper, we propose a deep
The past two decades have seen an increase in the deployment of photovoltaic installations as nations around the world try to play their part in dampening the impacts of
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In particular, considering the temperature, climate [5], corrosion, untimely regular maintenance, and other factors in the environment where the solar panel is located, functional

However, traditional object detection models prove inadequate for handling photovoltaic cell electroluminescence (EL) images, which are characterized by high levels of noise. To address this challenge, we developed an advanced defect detection model specifically designed for photovoltaic cells, which integrates topological knowledge extraction.
Efforts have been made to develop models capable of real-time defect detection, with some achieving impressive accuracy and processing speeds. However, existing approaches often struggle with feature redundancy and inefficient representations of defects in photovoltaic panels.
The task of PV panel defect detection is to identify the category and location of defects in EL images.
Tsuzuki K et al. proposed to use the relationship between the voltage and current obtained on a specific semiconductor after a bypass diode or solar cell element was supplied with forward current or voltage to enable the detection of its defects. Esquivel used contrast-enhanced illumination to detect solar panel crack defects.
To meet the data requirements, Su et al. 18 proposed PVEL-AD dataset for photovoltaic panel defect detection and conducted several subsequent studies 19, 20, 21 based on this dataset. In recent years, the PVEL-AD dataset has become a benchmark for photovoltaic (PV) cell defect detection research using electroluminescence (EL) images.
Visualizing feature map (The figure illustrates the change in the feature map after the SRE module.) We propose a photovoltaic cell defect detection model capable of extracting topological knowledge, aggregating local multi-order dynamic contexts, and effectively capturing diverse defect features, particularly for small flaws.
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