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@ARTICLE{Deitsch:892292,
author = {Deitsch, sergiu and Buerhop-Lutz, Claudia and Sovetkin,
Evgenii and Steland, ansgar and Maier, Andreas and Gallwitz,
Florian and Riess, Christian},
title = {{S}egmentation of {P}hotovoltaic {M}odule {C}ells in
{E}lectroluminescence {I}mages},
journal = {Machine vision and applications},
volume = {32},
issn = {0932-8092},
address = {Heidelberg},
publisher = {Springer},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-02001},
pages = {84},
year = {2021},
abstract = {High resolution electroluminescence (EL) images captured in
the infrared spectrum allow to visually and
non-destructively inspect the quality of photovoltaic (PV)
modules. Currently, however, such a visual inspection
requires trained experts to discern different kinds of
defects, which is time-consuming and expensive. Automated
segmentation of cells is therefore a key step in automating
the visual inspection workflow. In this work, we propose a
robust automated segmentation method for extraction of
individual solar cells from EL images of PV modules. This
enables controlled studies on large amounts of data to
understanding the effects of module degradation over
time—a process not yet fully understood. The proposed
method infers in several steps a high-level solar module
representation from low-level ridge edge features. An
important step in the algorithm is to formulate the
segmentation problem in terms of lens calibration by
exploiting the plumbline constraint. We evaluate our method
on a dataset of various solar modules types containing a
total of 408 solar cells with various defects. Our method
robustly solves this task with a median weighted Jaccard
index of $94.47\%$ and an F1 score of $97.62\%,$ both
indicating a high sensitivity and a high similarity between
automatically segmented and ground truth solar cell masks.},
cin = {IEK-11},
ddc = {004},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-11-20140314},
pnm = {899 - ohne Topic (POF4-899)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-899},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000653779200001},
doi = {10.1007/s00138-021-01191-9},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/892292},
}