Using Popular Object Detection Methods for Real Time Forest Fire Detection

In this paper, we focus on three problems that surrounded forest fire detection, real-time, early fire detection, and false detection. For the first time, we use classical objective detection methods to detect forest fire: Faster R-CNN, YOLO (tiny-yolo-voc, tiny-yolo-vocl, yolo-voc.2.0, and yolov3), and SSD, among them SSD has better real-time property, higher detection accuracy and early fire detection ability. We make the fire and smoke benchmark, utilize the new added smoke class and fire area changes to minimize the wrong detection. Meanwhile, we adjust YOLO's tiny-yolo-voc structure and propose a new structure tiny-yolo-vocl, the experiments proves that this improves the fire detection accuracy rate. This paper is very practical for forest safety and real time forest monitor.