Fire Segmentation with an Optimized Weighted Image Fusion Method

In recent decades, earlier fire detection has become a research priority. Since visible and infrared images cannot produce clear and complete information, we propose in this work to combine two images with an appropriate fusion technique to improve the quality of fire detection, segmentation, and localization. The visible image is at first weighted before being used in the fusion process. The value of the optimal weight is estimated from the mean of the visible image with a second-order polynomial model. The parameters of this model are optimized with the least squares method from the curve of optimal weights according to the mean of visible images. Finally, a major voting method based on deep learning models is used. Experiments include an assessment of the framework’s performance not only with respect to its visual appearance but also across a spectrum of predefined evaluation criteria. The experiments show that the proposed model, which includes an optimized weighted image fusion stage before segmentation, has a high Intersection over Union (IoU) score of more than 94%.