The invention relates to the technical field of
electric power operation and maintenance, and particularly discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle insulator defect identification method based on improved yov8n, and the method comprises the steps: firstly, improving a down-sampling module and feature map
processing, enhancing the capability of a model for extracting insulator defect features, and improving the detection accuracy; and secondly, a Focaler-SIoU
loss function is introduced, the target positioning performance is optimized, and particularly, the robustness of the model is improved when samples difficult to classify are processed. In addition, the model is lightened through the LAMP
algorithm, and the parameters and the calculation amount of the model are reduced, so that the model is more suitable for running on mobile equipment such as an unmanned aerial vehicle and the like. And finally, through training
verification and deployment into an unmanned aerial
vehicle detection system, real-time and efficient defect identification is realized, so that the problems of low efficiency, poor real-time performance and the like in the prior art are solved, the insulator defect detection precision can be improved, and meanwhile, the complexity and the calculation amount of the model are reduced so as to adapt to the real-time detection requirement of an unmanned aerial vehicle platform.