Edge detection of foreign matter suspension image of high voltage transmission line based on improved Canny operator

In the edge detection of foreign object hanging image of high voltage transmission line, it is easy to appear that multiple responses will appear at one image edge point, which affects the detection effect. Based on the improved Canny operator, an edge detection method for foreign matter suspension image of high voltage transmission line is designed. The collected image is preprocessed in three steps: gray processing, optical correction and noise reduction, so as to better reflect the characteristics of the original image and improve the image quality. The non-uniform distribution of potential energy of foreign body hanging image data field is used to locate the image area of foreign body hanging. The morphological filter can extract the local noise and make the image clearer. The Canny operator is improved to obtain the partial derivative of the distance measurement function and automatically update the threshold to eliminate the multi-level response. The test results show that the method in this paper is better than the image edge detection method based on Canny operator and Sobel operator in three indexes: positive detection rate, false detection rate and missed detection rate.