2025/02/18 by Diogo Lavado, Lavado, Diogo, Ricardo Feliciano dos Santos +9
Engineering · #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Power System Reliability and Maintenance #Power Systems Fault Detection #Power Systems and Technologies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2502.13037
openalex publication_date 2025/02/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Ensuring the safety and reliability of power grids is critical as global energy demands continue to rise. Traditional inspection methods, such as manual observations or helicopter surveys, are resource-intensive and lack scalability. This paper explores the use of 3D computer vision to automate power grid inspections, utilizing the TS40K dataset -- a high-density, annotated collection of 3D LiDAR point clouds. By concentrating on 3D semantic segmentation, our approach addresses challenges like class imbalance and noisy data to enhance the detection of critical grid components such as power lines and towers. The benchmark results indicate significant performance improvements, with IoU scores reaching 95.53% for the detection of power lines using transformer-based models. Our findings illustrate the potential for integrating ML into grid maintenance workflows, increasing efficiency and enabling proactive risk management strategies.