Töreyin, B. U.Dedeoǧlu, Y.Güdükbay, UğurÇetin, A. Enis2016-02-082016-02-082006-01-010167-8655http://hdl.handle.net/11693/23881This paper proposes a novel method to detect fire and/or flames in real-time by processing the video data generated by an ordinary camera monitoring a scene. In addition to ordinary motion and color clues, flame and fire flicker is detected by analyzing the video in the wavelet domain. Quasi-periodic behavior in flame boundaries is detected by performing temporal wavelet transform. Color variations in flame regions are detected by computing the spatial wavelet transform of moving fire-colored regions. Another clue used in the fire detection algorithm is the irregularity of the boundary of the fire-colored region. All of the above clues are combined to reach a final decision. Experimental results show that the proposed method is very successful in detecting fire and/or flames. In addition, it drastically reduces the false alarms issued to ordinary fire-colored moving objects as compared to the methods using only motion and color clues. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.EnglishEvent detection in videoFire detection in videoGaussian mixture modelWavelet transformCamerasColorComputer visionData acquisitionDecision makingMathematical transformationsArticle10.1016/j.patrec.2005.06.015