Fire smoke detection algorithm based on motion characteristic and convolutional neural networks

It is a challenging task to recognize smoke from visual scenes due to large variations in the feature of color, texture, shapes, etc. The current detection algorithms are mainly based on single feature or fusion of multiple static features of smoke, which leads to low detection accuracy. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a smoke detection algorithm based on the motion characteristics of smoke and the convolutional neural networks (CNN). Firstly, a moving object detection algorithm based on background dynamic update and dark channel priori is proposed to detect the suspected smoke regions. Then, the features of suspected region is extracted automatically by CNN, on that the smoke identification is performed. Compared to previous work, our algorithm improves the detection accuracy, which can reach 99% in the testing sets. For the problem that the region of smoke is relatively small in the early stage of smoke generation, the strategy of implicit enlarging the suspected regions is proposed, which improves the timeliness of smoke detection. In addition a fine-tuning method is proposed to solve the problem of scarce of data in the training network. Also, the algorithm has good smoke detection performance by testing under various video scenes.