Multi-Scale Dual Discriminator Generative Adversarial Network for Gas Leakage Detection

Gas leakages pose significant safety risks in urban environments and industrial sectors like the Oil and Gas Industry (OGI), leading to accidents, fatalities, and economic losses. This paper introduces a novel generative AI framework, the Multi-Scale Dual Discriminator Generative Adversarial Network (MSDD-GAN), designed to detect and localize gas leaks by generating thermal images from RGB input images. The proposed method integrates three key innovations: (1) Attention-Guided Masking (AttMask) for precise gas leakage localization using saliency maps and a circular Region of Interest (ROI), enabling pixel-level validation; (2) Multi-scale input processing to enhance feature learning with limited data; and (3) Dual Discriminator to validate the thermal image realism and leakage localization accuracy. A comprehensive dataset from laboratory and industrial environment has been collected using a FLIR thermal camera. The MSDD-GAN demonstrated robust performance by generating thermal images with the gas leakage indications at a mean accuracy of 81.6%, outperforming baseline cGANs by leveraging a multi-scale generator and dual adversarial losses. By correlating ice formation in RGB images with the leakage indications in thermal images, the model addresses critical challenges of OGI applications, including data scarcity and validation reliability, offering a robust solution for continuous gas leak monitoring in pipeline.