Töreyin, B. UğurÇetin, A. Enis2016-02-082016-02-082008http://hdl.handle.net/11693/26839Date of Conference: 20-22 April 2008Conference Name: 16th Signal Processing, Communication and Applications Conference, IEEE 2008Lookout posts are commonly installed in the forests all around Turkey and the world. Most of these posts have electricity. Surveillance cameras can be placed on to these surveillance towers to detect possible forest fires. Currently, average fire detection time is 5 minutes in manned lookout towers. The aim ofthe proposed computer vision based method is to reduce the average fire detection rate. The detection method is based on the wavelet based analysis of the background images at various update rates.TurkishBackground imagesDetection methodsFire detectionsForest fire detectionsForest firesSurveillance camerasUpdate ratesBuildingsComputer visionDeforestationFire detectorsImage processingNavigationSecurity systemsSignal processingFiresSafetyTowersConference Paper10.1109/SIU.2008.4632677