Early Forest Fire Detection Based on Deep Learning

Early fire detection is very important for preventing forest fires. In this paper, a new image-based fire detection algorithm, named as h-EfflcientDet, is proposed to complete the task of early forest fire detection. h-EfflcientDet is based on a popular deep learning approach EfficientDet (scalable and efficient object detection) by replacing the nonlinear activation function swish of the EfficientDet with the hard version of swish and combing also with an efficient feature fusion network BIFPN (bidirectional feature pyramid network), which can improve significantly the efficiency of the fire detection model. The experiment results show that the proposed h-EfficientDet can detect the fire in real-time with the detection speed of 21 FPS. The detection accuracy is up to 98.35% with a low miss detection rate.