Fire Detection Based on Extraction of Spatio-Temporal Features by Convolutional Neural Networks and Fractal Analysis

Fire is one of the dangers that can endanger human health in a short time and if it is not controlled in time, it will cause a lot of damage. Therefore, timely and accurate identification of the location of the fire can prevent the consequences of its expansion. In this research, a new method for fire detection is proposed based on the extraction of its temporal-spatial features in video frames. In the proposed algorithm, a multiscale convolutional neural network along with a YOLO (you only look once) network is used to extract spatial features and identify fire candidate regions. Then, fractal analysis based on the temporal blanket method is then used to remove non-moving textures similar to fire and to examine the temporal features of the candidate region. Finally, the fire region is separated from the other parts of the image by fusion the results of the two steps. The evaluation results of the proposed method on three data sets show that the accuracy of fire detection is about 96.1%, while the precision and recall values are 92% and 96.9%, respectively. Experimental results show that the proposed method performs better than existing algorithms and thus confirms the ability of this method for efficient use in the real world.