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To avoid the heuristic fixed threshold values in the If we get the fire color range in a frame of input
fire detection system, we replace the heuristic values in video sequences, there might be the fire-like color
Chens method with the statistic values and the binary region in a scene. Therefore, first, it needs to remove
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the fire-like color region of background from the fire
candidate regions.
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fire pixel, otherwise, the non-fire pixel even if it is methods can detect fire easily because the fire regions
located in a moving region. are relatively large in the scenes.
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Figure 7. Example of video clip #3 : (a) method 1, Figure 9. Example of video clip #5 : (a) method 1,
(b) method 2, (c) method 3, (d) proposed (b) method 2, (c) method 3, (d) proposed
Figure 8. Example of video clip #4 : (a) method 1, Figure 10. Example of video clip #6 : (a) method 1,
(b) method 2, (c) method 3, (d) proposed
(b) method 2, (c) method 3, (d) proposed
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In Table 1, our proposed method is compared with also had relatively lower detection rate in the video
other methods. The proposed method not only shows clips of small fire regions than that of video clips of
better detection ratio, about 85%, compared with the large fire regions.
other methods, and but also has not the fixed heuristic As further research, studying the more detailed fire
threshold values in the fire detection process. Also, the characteristic, effectively removing the moving objects
proposed method presented no false positive frames. with the fire-like color and detecting fire in small fire
Our proposed method shows relatively lower regions are needed.
detection ratio in clip #5 and clip #6 than that of other
clips because they have small fire regions in their
video sequence images.
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