• Advancing Deep Learning for Automatic Autonomous Vision-based Power Line Inspection 

      Nguyen, Van Nhan (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2019-12-03)
      Electricity is fundamental to the ability to function of almost all modern-day societies. To maintain the reliability, availability, and sustainability of electricity supply, electric utilities are usually required to perform visual inspections on their electrical grids regularly. These inspections have been typically carried out using a combination of airborne surveys via low-flying helicopters and ...
    • LS-Net: fast single-shot line-segment detector 

      Nguyen, Van Nhan; Jenssen, Robert; Roverso, Davide (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-29)
      In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flights, power lines are considered as one of the most threatening hazards and one of the most difficult obstacles to avoid. In recent years, many vision-based techniques have been proposed to detect power lines to facilitate self-driving UAVs and automatic obstacle avoidance. However, most of the proposed methods are typically based on a common three-step approach: ...