Development of a Fire Detection Based on the Analysis of Video Data by Means of Convolutional Neural Networks

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven their worth in the field of image-based object recognition and localization. In the context of this work, a fire detector based on CNNs has been developed that detects fire by analyzing video sequences. The major additions of this work will primarily be realized through the use of temporal information contained in the video sequences depicting fire. In contrast to state of the art fire detectors, a large image database with 160,000 images with an even distribution of positive and negative samples has been created. To be able to compare image-based and video-based approaches as objectively as possible, different image-based CNNs will be trained under the same conditions as the video-based networks within the scope of this work. It will be shown that video-based networks offer an advantage over conventional image-based networks and therefore benefit from the temporal information of fire. We have achieved a prediction accuracy of 96.82%.