Histogram-based Smoke Segmentation in Forest Fire Detection System

A focus of this paper is a pixel level analysis and segmentation of smoke colored pixels for the automated forest fire detection. Variations in the smoke color tones, environmental illumination, atmospheric conditions and low quality of the images of wide outdoor area make smoke detection a complex task. In order to find an efficient combination of a color space and pixel level smoke segmentation algorithm, several color space transformations are evaluated by measuring separability between smoke and non-smoke classes of pixels. However, exhaustive evaluation of the histogram-based smoke segmentation algorithms in different color spaces suggests that the peak performance is the distinctive feature of the algorithm itself rather than the algorithm-color space combination.