Citation

Toreyin BU, Dedeoğlu Y, Güdükbay U, Çetin AE. Pattern Recogn. Lett. 2006; 27(1): 49-58.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.patrec.2005.06.015

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel method to detect fire and/or flames in real-time by processing the video data generated by an ordinary camera monitoring a scene. In addition to ordinary motion and color clues, flame and fire flicker is detected by analyzing the video in the wavelet domain. Quasi-periodic behavior in flame boundaries is detected by performing temporal wavelet transform. Color variations in flame regions are detected by computing the spatial wavelet transform of moving fire-colored regions. Another clue used in the fire detection algorithm is the irregularity of the boundary of the fire-colored region. All of the above clues are combined to reach a final decision. Experimental results show that the proposed method is very successful in detecting fire and/or flames. In addition, it drastically reduces the false alarms issued to ordinary fire-colored moving objects as compared to the methods using only motion and color clues.

Language: en