METHODOLOGY

The materials and methods involved in Camera Based Fire and Smoke

Detection are discussed in this chapter.

Materials

The materials that will be used in constructing this project are different

software libraries that combine together to produce the require output of the

proponent.

Camera

A USB 2.0 camera – mvBlueFox camera which is highly recommended

for high-quality sensors suited for superior image quality for most applications.
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SOFTWARE

OpenCV

Open Source Computer Vision Library is an open-source library that

includes several hundreds of computer vision algorithms. It also several

shared or static libraries. Modules that are available includes Image

Processing, Video Analysis, etch.

SVM

Support Vector Machine is supervised learning models with associated

learning algorithms that analyse data used for classification and regression

analysis.

Visual Studio

Is an event-driven programming language and environment from

Microsoft that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) which allows

programmers to modify code by simply dragging and dropping objects and

defining their behaviour and appearance. VB is derived from the BASIC

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programming language and is considered to be event-driven and object-

oriented.

C++

Is a general-purpose programming language as an extension of the C

programming language, or "C with Classes". C++ is regarded as a middle-

level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level

language features.