Due to the diversity of the shape and texture of flame, and interference objects that similar to flame in color, detecting the position of flame from images is a difficult task. To enable generic object detection methods to achieve better performance in flame detection tasks, a color-guided anchoring strategy is proposed that uses color features of the flame to limit the location of the anchor. To solve the problem of high false alarm rate when directly using generic object detection methods in flame detection, a global information-guided flame detection method is proposed, this strategy uses a parallel network to generate image global information. We use these two methods to improve Faster R-CNN (Regions with Convolutional Neural Network features) to perform the fire detection process in a guided manner. Experiments on the BoWFire dataset show that our method improved detection speed by 10.1% compared with the original Faster R-CNN. In addition, the false alarm rate is decreased by 21.5%, and the overall accuracy of detection is increased by 9.3%. Experiments on PascalVOC and Corsician datasets further demonstrate the robustness of the proposed methods.
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