Journal
COMPUTER NETWORKS
Volume 193, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2021.108001
Keywords
Aerial imaging; Fire monitoring dataset; Fire detection and segmentation; Deep learning
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Funding
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research, United States of America [FA9550-20-1-0090]
- National Science Foundation, United States of America [2034218]
- Division Of Computer and Network Systems
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr [2034218] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Wildfires in the US are highly destructive and dangerous, highlighting the need for technological advancements to minimize risks. The FLAME dataset and methods offer valuable tools for firefighters and researchers to optimize fire management strategies. By utilizing machine learning solutions, such as binary classification and fire detection segmentation, significant progress has been made in accurately identifying and managing fires.
Wildfires are one of the costliest and deadliest natural disasters in the US, causing damage to millions of hectares of forest resources and threatening the lives of people and animals. Of particular importance are risks to firefighters and operational forces, which highlights the need for leveraging technology to minimize danger to people and property. FLAME (Fire Luminosity Airborne-based Machine learning Evaluation) offers a dataset of aerial images of fires along with methods for fire detection and segmentation which can help firefighters and researchers to develop optimal fire management strategies. This paper provides a fire image dataset collected by drones during a prescribed burning piled detritus in an Arizona pine forest. The dataset includes video recordings and thermal heatmaps captured by infrared cameras. The captured videos and images are annotated, and labeled frame-wise to help researchers easily apply their fire detection and modeling algorithms. The paper also highlights solutions to two machine learning problems: (1) Binary classification of video frames based on the presence [and absence] of fire flames. An Artificial Neural Network (ANN) method is developed that achieved a 76% classification accuracy. (2) Fire detection using segmentation methods to precisely determine fire borders. A deep learning method is designed based on the U-Net up-sampling and down-sampling approach to extract a fire mask from the video frames. Our FLAME method approached a precision of 92%, and recall of 84%. Future research will expand the technique for free burning broadcast fire using thermal images.
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