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CHAPTER 7. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK 108phenomenon. In the last stage of each detection algorithm, individual decisionsfrom sub-algorithms are combined together to reach a final decision. A leastmean-square(LMS) based active decision fusion strategy is proposed and thisframework is successfully applied in the decision fusion step of the long-rangewildfire detection method.The LMS adaptive decision fusion framework takes into account the feedbackfrom an oracle (security-guard) whose decisions are taken as the ground-truth.Individual sub-algorithm weights are updated in such a way that the final decisiontracks the classification results of the oracle at each time step. At each stage ofthe LMS algorithm, the method tracks the changes in the nature of the problemby performing an orthogonal projection onto a hyperplane describing the decisionof the oracle. Therefore, the proposed framework for decision fusion may provideinsight in problems with drifting concepts belonging to many other research areasin machine learning applications including computer vision.The proposed wildfire detection method is integrated into forest fire earlywarning systems which are installed in ten forest watch towers in Turkey. Oursystem successfully did not miss any smoke due to test fires. It also detected threeforest fires in their early stages in Antalya and Aksehir regions in the summerof 2008. The system is developed to assist the guard in fire detection. TheDirectorate of Forestry and Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Turkey willinstall the system to other forestal areas under high risk of fire in upcoming years.In this thesis, we developed signal and image processing algorithms for firedetection dedicated to sensing modalities like visible range and LWIR cameras,and PIR senors. In the proposed setting, just a single type of sensor is assumedto monitor an area of interest for each sensing modality.A natural future direction pertains to extending both the number and typesof sensors covering an indoor or an outdoor area of interest. This extensionrequires the development of algorithms that efficiently extract useful informationfrom multitude of sensors and interpret them to reach a final decision. The sameanalysis algorithms may be used for each sensor. However, overall decision canbe given by linearly combining sensor outputs that define confidence levels for