Summary of Detecting Abnormal Operations in Concentrated Solar Power Plants From Irregular Sequences Of Thermal Images, by Sukanya Patra et al.
Detecting Abnormal Operations in Concentrated Solar Power Plants from Irregular Sequences of Thermal Images
by Sukanya Patra, Nicolas Sournac, Souhaib Ben Taieb
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper investigates anomaly detection (AD) in thermal images from an operational Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant. The goal is to develop a method that extracts useful representations from high-dimensional thermal images for AD, handling temporal features such as irregularity, dependency between images, and non-stationarity due to daily seasonal patterns. The paper evaluates state-of-the-art deep image-based AD methods and introduces a forecasting-based AD method that predicts future thermal images using a deep sequence model. This approach effectively captures specific temporal data features and distinguishes between temperature-based anomalies. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach compared to multiple baselines across multiple evaluation metrics. The solution has been successfully deployed on unseen data, providing critical insights for CSP plant maintenance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper looks at how to find unusual patterns in pictures taken by cameras on solar power towers. These cameras take pictures every few minutes throughout the day and night. The problem is that some of these images might look normal but actually mean something bad is happening with the solar power system. The authors test different methods for finding these anomalies and come up with a new way to do it that works well. This method uses past images to predict what future images will look like, which helps find temperature-related problems early on. The results show that this approach does better than others at detecting anomalies. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Anomaly detection » Sequence model » Temperature
