1. Flame and smoke detection method for early real-time detection of a tunnel fire Adviser: Yu-Chiang Li Speaker: Wei-Cheng Wu Date: 2009/09/23 Fire Safety Journal, Volume 44, Issue 3, April 2009, Pages 951-961 Dongil Han, Byoungmoo Lee 1

2. Outline 1. 1. Introduction 2. 2. Flame and smoke detection algorithm 3. 3. Experimental results 4. 4. Conclusions 2

3. 1. Introduction   This paper presents an image-processing technique for automatic real-time flame and smoke detection in a tunnel environment.   This paper describes the use of images obtained in a tunnel to produce a rapid and early fire detection algorithm.   Proposes two algorithms that complement each other to solve the problems mentioned above. 3

4. 2. Flame and smoke detection algorithm 4  Flame Detection Algorithm (FDA)  Smoke Detection Algorithm (SDA)

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21. 4. Conclusions  The experimental results showed that the proposed method detects the flame and smoke region exactly and indicated good performance of the proposed method.  The proposed method is simple and adequate for a tunnel environment. 21