“…The spontaneous emission from flames can be used, alone or combined with other methods to characterise a combustion mode. The chemiluminescence emitted by a hydrocarbon fuel flame, when acquired by optical devices such as spectrometers [4e8], or CCD cameras [9e16] provide valuable information regarding the combustion process, which has been experimentally related to heat release [17,18], equivalence ratio [19e21], temperature [22,23], pressure [24] and pollutant formation [25e27] in a variety of burners [28e30]. The captured information from flame images, after extracting relevant features, can be used to design predictive models aiming at combustion monitoring and control.…”