Flame Recognition in Video Images with Color and Dynamic Features of Flames

Journal: Journal of Autonomous Intelligence DOI: 10.32629/jai.v2i1.35

Jiaqing Chen¹, Xiaohui Mu¹, Yinglei Song², Menghong Yu¹, Bing Zhang¹

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2. Department of Electronics and Information Science, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Professor

Abstract

Recently, video based flame detection has become an important approach for early detection of fire under complex circumstances. However, the detection accuracy of most existing methods remains unsatisfactory. In this paper, we develop a new algorithm that can significantly improve the accuracy of flame detection in video images. The algorithm segments a video image and obtains areas that may contain flames by combining a two-step clustering based approach with the RGB color model. A few new dynamic and hierarchical features associated with the suspected regions, including the flicker frequency of flames, are then extracted and analyzed. The algorithm determines whether a suspected region contains flames or not by processing the color and dynamic features of the area altogether with a BP neural network. Testing results show that this algorithm is robust and efficient, and is able to significantly reduce the probability of false alarms.

Keywords

Fire Detection; RGB Color Model; Dynamic Features; Hierarchical Features; Feature Fusion

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