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CHAPTER 2. FLAME DETECTION IN VISIBLE RANGE VIDEO 28Convexity of regions is verified in a heuristic manner. Boundaries of the regionsin the <strong>Fire</strong> mask are checked for their convexity along equally spaced five verticaland five horizontal lines using a 5 × 5 grid. The analysis simply consists ofchecking whether the pixels on each line belong to the region or not. If at leastthree consecutive pixels belong to the background, then this region violates theconvexity condition. A <strong>Fire</strong> mask region which has background pixels on theintersecting vertical and/or horizontal lines, is assumed to have a non-convexboundary. This eliminates false alarms due to match light sources, sun, etc.2.4 Experimental ResultsThe proposed method, Method-2.1, is implemented on a PC with an Intel Pentium4, 2.40 GHz processor. It is tested for a large variety of conditions incomparison with the method utilizing only the color and temporal variation information,which we call Method-2.2, described in [64]. The scheme describedin [17] is also implemented for comparison and it is called as Method 3 in therest of the article. The results for some of the test sequences are presented inTable 2.2.(a)(b)Figure 2.9: (a) With the method using color and temporal variation only(Method-2.2) [64], false alarms are issued for the fire colored line on the movingtruck and the ground, (b) our method (Method-2.1) does not produce anyfalse alarms.

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