• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Joint Superresolution and Rectification for Solar Cell Inspection
  • Contributor: Hoffmann, Mathis [Author]; Kohler, Thomas [Author]; Doll, Bernd [Author]; Schebesch, Frank [Author]; Talkenberg, Florian [Author]; Peters, Ian Marius [Author]; Brabec, Christoph [Author]; Maier, Andreas [Author]; Christlein, Vincent [Author]
  • Published: IEEE, 2021
  • Published in: IEEE journal of photovoltaics 11(4), 1051 - 1058 (2021). doi:10.1109/JPHOTOV.2021.3072229
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2021.3072229
  • ISSN: 2156-3381; 2156-3403
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  • Description: Visual inspection of solar modules is an important monitoring facility in photovoltaic power plants. Since a single measurement of fast CMOS sensors is limited in spatial resolution and often not sufficient to reliably detect small defects, we apply multiframe superresolution (MFSR) to a sequence of low-resolution measurements. In addition, the rectification and removal of lens distortion simplifies subsequent analysis. Therefore, we propose to fuse this preprocessing with standard MFSR algorithms. This is advantageous, because we omit a separate processing step, the motion estimation becomes more stable and the spacing of high-resolution pixels on the rectified module image becomes uniform w.r.t. the module plane, regardless of perspective distortion. We present a comprehensive user study showing that MFSR is beneficial for defect recognition by human experts and that the proposed method performs better than the state-of-the-art. Furthermore, we apply automated crack segmentation and show that the proposed method performs 3× better than bicubic upsampling and 2× better than the state-of-the-art for automated inspection.
  • Access State: Open Access