Fire flame detection algorithm using a color camera

In fire detection using image processing, it is required that a system has enough robustness and elimination of an influence of a disturbance. The authors have developed a method which fire flame can be detected by calculating a space-time fluctuation data on a contour of the flame area extracted by a color information. In this paper, the fire flame detection algorithm using a color CCD camera is explained and the results of the experiment, which is performed to verify the effectiveness of our method, are demonstrated.