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    Flame detection system based on wavelet analysis of PIR sensor signals with an HMM decision mechanism
    (IEEE, 2008-08) Ug̃ur Töreyin, B.; Soyer, E. Birey; Urfaliog̃lu, Onay; Çetin, A. Enis
    In this paper, a flame detection system based on a pyroelectric (or passive) infrared (PIR) sensor is described. The flame detection system can be used for fire detection in large rooms. The flame flicker process of an uncontrolled fire and ordinary activity of human beings and other objects are modeled using a set of Hidden Markov Models (HMM), which are trained using the wavelet transform of the PIR sensor signal. Whenever there is an activity within the viewing range of the PIR sensor system, the sensor signal is analyzed in the wavelet domain and the wavelet signals are fed to a set of HMMs. A fire or no fire decision is made according to the HMM producing the highest probability. copyright by EURASIP.
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    Online detection of fire in video
    (IEEE, 2007) Töreyin, Behçet Uğur; Çetin, A. Enis
    This paper describes an online learning based method to detect flames in video by processing the data generated by an ordinary camera monitoring a scene. Our fire detection method consists of weak classifiers based on temporal and spatial modeling of flames. Markov models representing the flame and flame colored ordinary moving objects are used to distinguish temporal flame flicker process from motion of flame colored moving objects. Boundary of flames are represented in wavelet domain and high frequency nature of the boundaries of fire regions is also used as a clue to model the flame flicker spatially. Results from temporal and spatial weak classifiers based on flame flicker and irregularity of the flame region boundaries are updated online to reach a final decision. False alarms due to ordinary and periodic motion of flame colored moving objects are greatly reduced when compared to the existing video based fire detection systems.