Novel intelligent defects detection of boiler water walls in thermal power plants based on OFM_SSD

Yongming Han, Lei Wang, Jintao Liu, Liang Yuan, Hongxu Liu, Bo Ma, Zhiqiang Geng

Abstract: Highlights•A novel single shot multibox detector integrating the optical flow method is proposed.•The intelligent defects detection of actual boiler water walls based on the proposed method is obtained.•The proposed method can achieve state-of-the-art performance.•The proposed method can reduce the cost and improve the detection ability of thermal power plants.