Smoke vehicle detection based on multi-feature fusion and hidden Markov model

Existing smoke vehicle detection methods and vision-based smoke detection methods are vulnerable to false alarms. This paper presents an automatic smoke vehicle detection method based on multi-feature fusion and hidden Markov model (HMM). In this method, we first detect moving objects using an improved visual background extractor (ViBe) algorithm and obtain smoke-colored blocks using color histogram features in the HSI (hue, saturation, and intensity) color space. The adaptive scale local binary pattern (AS-LBP) and the discriminative edge orientation histogram (disEOH) are proposed and combined to characterize the smoke-colored blocks. More specifically, the proposed AS-LBP, a texture feature descriptor, is based on the quadratic fitting of our labelled data to obtain the best scale. The proposed disEOH, a gradient-based feature descriptor, is robust to noise by extracting discriminative edge information using Gaussian filters and principal component analysis (PCA). The discrete cosine transform (DCT) is employed to extract frequency domain information from the region fused by smoke blocks. To utilize the dynamic features, the HMMs are employed to analyze and classify the smoke-colored block sequences and region sequences in continuous frames. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves better performances than existing smoke detection methods, especially achieves lower false alarms.