Table 5 Comparison between base method (Method 3+M+D) and ensembled variants.

From: Inspection of railway catenary systems using machine learning with domain knowledge integration

 

YOLO11 based methods

 

AP50

Recall

Precision

F1

Time

 

Basic elements

Full inference

Base method

89.26 (1.68)

91.45 (1.61)

85.55 (1.61)

88.36 (1.28)

0.894 (0.018)

Default TTA

86.68 (1.64)

89.64 (1.35)

80.33 (1.93)

84.64 (1.32)

1.483 (0.112)

Custom TTA

88.82 (1.36)

90.63 (1.32)

89.67 (1.00)

90.13 (0.77)

1.646 (0.076)

Ensembled (T=4)

90.12

91.52

92.66

92.06

3.195

 

Small elements

 

Base method

69.24 (1.88)

88.94 (1.35)

56.66 (1.78)

69.17 (1.48)

 

Default TTA

69.58 (2.33)

89.55 (0.68)

50.40 (2.21)

64.30 (1.92)

 

Custom TTA

68.88 (1.43)

86.75 (1.37)

60.10 (3.22)

70.89 (2.22)

 

Ensembled (T=4)

70.30

88.36

61.55

72.53

 
 

RT-DETR based methods

 

AP50

Recall

Precision

F1

Time

 

Basic elements

Full inference

Base method

90.73 (2.16)

93.60 (1.59)

72.26 (3.47)

81.41 (2.56)

1.731 (0.040)

Default TTA

87.65 (2.22)

90.59 (1.74)

64.76 (3.95)

75.26 (3.13)

3.144 (0.063)

Custom TTA

90.57 (1.12)

92.85 (0.84)

77.38 (3.04)

84.26 (1.97)

2.946 (0.070)

Ensembled (T=4)

92.04

93.86

80.17

86.35

6.165

 

Small elements

 

Base method

77.50 (2.35)

91.63 (1.79)

45.73 (2.58)

60.60 (2.56)

 

Default TTA

77.63 (2.28)

90.91 (1.18)

39.40 (2.81)

54.38 (3.01)

 

Custom TTA

79.10 (1.81)

90.14 (1.43)

51.37 (2.40)

65.11 (1.88)

 

Ensembled (T=4)

80.14

91.48

56.81

70.09