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Over the last few decades, deforestation and climate change have caused increasing number of forest fires. In Southeast Asia, Indonesia has been the most affected country by tropical peatland forest fires. These fires have a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Suwei Yang , Massimo Lupascu , Kuldeep S. Meel

Wildfires present intricate challenges for prediction, necessitating the use of sophisticated machine learning techniques for effective modeling\cite{jain2020review}. In our research, we conducted a thorough assessment of various machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Di Fan , Ayan Biswas , James Paul Ahrens

Risk assessment is relevant in any workplace, however there is a degree of unpredictability when dealing with flammable or hazardous materials so that detection of fire accidents by itself may not be enough. An example of this is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Carmina Pérez-Guerrero , Adriana Palacios , Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz , Christian Mata , Miguel Gonzalez-Mendoza , Luis Eduardo Falcón-Morales

Thanks to recent advances in generative AI, computers can now simulate realistic and complex natural processes. We apply this capability to predict how wildfires spread, a task made difficult by the unpredictable nature of fire and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Wenbo Yu , Anirbit Ghosh , Tobias Sebastian Finn , Rossella Arcucci , Marc Bocquet , Sibo Cheng

Fire safety is crucial for ensuring the stability of building structures, yet evaluating whether a structure meets fire safety requirement is challenging. Fires can originate at any point within a structure, and simulating every potential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yuan Xinjie , Khalid M. Mosalam

The increasing frequency of catastrophic natural events, such as wildfires, calls for the development of rapid and automated wildfire detection systems. In this paper, we propose a wildfire identification solution to improve the accuracy of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Angelica Urbanelli , Luca Barco , Edoardo Arnaudo , Claudio Rossi

We present a deployed system for on-orbit wildfire detection aboard a nine-satellite commercial thermal infrared constellation, operating under demanding joint constraints: sub-megabyte model footprint, sub-150 ms per-batch TensorRT FP16…

This research paper addresses the challenge of detecting obscured wildfires (when the fire flames are covered by trees, smoke, clouds, and other natural barriers) in real-time using drones equipped only with RGB cameras. We propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Uma Meleti , Abolfazl Razi

Machine learning (ML)-based wildfire detection methods have been developed in recent years, primarily using deep learning (DL) models trained on large collections of wildfire images and videos. However, peatland fires exhibit distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Emadeldeen Hamdan , Ahmad Faiz Tharima , Mohd Zahirasri Mohd Tohir , Dayang Nur Sakinah Musa , Erdem Koyuncu , Adam J. Watts , Ahmet Enis Cetin

Fire patterns, consisting of fire effects that offer insights into fire behavior and origin, are traditionally classified based on investigators' visual observations, leading to subjective interpretations. This study proposes a framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Pengkun Liu , Shuna Ni , Stanislav I. Stoliarov , Pingbo Tang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are the third generation of neural networks. They have gained widespread attention in object detection due to their low energy consumption and biological interpretability. However, existing SNN-based object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yimeng Fan , Changsong Liu , Mingyang Li , Dongze Liu , Yuting Su , Yanyan Liu , Wei Zhang

This paper details a methodology proposed for the EVA 2021 conference data challenge. The aim of this challenge was to predict the number and size of wildfires over the contiguous US between 1993 and 2015, with more importance placed on…

Early detection of wildfires is essential to prevent large-scale fires resulting in extensive environmental, structural, and societal damage. Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) can cover large remote areas effectively with quick deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Julius Pesonen , Teemu Hakala , Väinö Karjalainen , Niko Koivumäki , Lauri Markelin , Anna-Maria Raita-Hakola , Juha Suomalainen , Ilkka Pölönen , Eija Honkavaara

In recent years, the increasing threat of devastating wildfires has underscored the need for effective prescribed fire management. Process-based computer simulations have traditionally been employed to plan prescribed fires for wildfire…

With the rapid increase in wildfires in the past decade, it has become necessary to detect and predict these disasters to mitigate losses to ecosystems and human lives. In this paper, we present a novel solution -- Hyper-Drive3D --…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Nathaniel Hanson , Sarvesh Prajapati , James Tukpah , Yash Mewada , Taşkın Padır

Fire and smoke phenomena pose a significant threat to the natural environment, ecosystems, and global economy, as well as human lives and wildlife. In this particular circumstance, there is a demand for more sophisticated and advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Sayed Pedram Haeri Boroujeni , Niloufar Mehrabi , Fatemeh Afghah , Connor Peter McGrath , Danish Bhatkar , Mithilesh Anil Biradar , Abolfazl Razi

Accurate forecasts of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) from wildfire smoke are crucial to safeguarding cardiopulmonary public health. Existing forecasting systems are trained on sparse and inaccurate ground truths, and do not take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Renhao Wang , Ashutosh Bhudia , Brandon Dos Remedios , Minnie Teng , Raymond Ng

Due to climate change and the disruption of ecosystems worldwide, wildfires are increasingly impacting environment, infrastructure, and human lives globally. Additionally, an exacerbating climate crisis means that these losses would…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Rohan Tan Bhowmik , Youn Soo Jung , Juan Aguilera , Mary Prunicki , Kari Nadeau

The increasing frequency and severity of wildfires highlight the need for accurate fire and plume spread models. We introduce an approach that effectively isolates and tracks fire and plume behavior across various spatial and temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Daryn Sagel , Bryan Quaife

Bushfires are among the most destructive natural hazards in Australia, causing significant ecological, economic, and social damage. Accurate prediction of bushfire intensity is therefore essential for effective disaster preparedness and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Tanvi Jois , Hussain Ahmad , Fatima Noor , Faheem Ullah