Flame region detection using color and motion features in video sequences

This paper proposes a new flame region detection method using color and dynamic characteristic of flame in video sequences. Flame has very distinct color characteristics, and nine discriminate rules are proposed in RGB color space for flame detection, and these rules are combined to detect the candidate flame regions. To validate a real burning flame region, this paper uses ViBe algorithm to detect the moving regions, and the candidate flame region containing no motion object are classified as spurious flame-like regions. Experiment shows that this method can achieve desired flame region in various scenes with high true positive rate and low false detection rate.