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Wildfires are a significant threat to ecosystems and human infrastructure, leading to widespread destruction and environmental degradation. Recent advancements in deep learning and generative models have enabled new methods for wildfire…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Hao Wang , Sayed Pedram Haeri Boroujeni , Xiwen Chen , Ashish Bastola , Huayu Li , Wenhui Zhu , Abolfazl Razi

Due to recent climate changes, we have seen more frequent and severe wildfires in the United States. Predicting wildfires is critical for natural disaster prevention and mitigation. Advances in technologies in data processing and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Hyung-Jin Yoon , Petros Voulgaris

This paper discusses the development of a convolutional architecture of a deep neural network for the recognition of wildfires on satellite images. Based on the results of image classification, a fuzzy cognitive map of the analysis of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Sergey Yarushev , Alexey Averkin

The escalating intensity and frequency of wildfires demand innovative computational methods for rapid and accurate property damage assessment. Traditional methods are often time-consuming, while modern computer vision approaches typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Miguel Esparza , Archit Gupta , Kai Yin , Yiming Xiao , Ali Mostafavi

Accurate fire and smoke detection is critical for safety and disaster response, yet existing vision-based methods face challenges in balancing efficiency and reliability. Compact deep learning models such as YOLOv5n and YOLOv8n are widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Aniruddha Srinivas Joshi , Godwyn James William , Shreyas Srinivas Joshi

Wildfires are becoming increasingly frequent, with potentially devastating consequences, including loss of life, infrastructure destruction, and severe environmental damage. Low Earth orbit satellites equipped with onboard sensors can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Brycen D. Pearl , Joshua G. Warner , Hang Woon Lee

Over the last decade there has been an increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires across the globe, posing significant threats to human and animal lives, ecosystems, and socio-economic stability. Therefore urgent action is required to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Maria Sdraka , Alkinoos Dimakos , Alexandros Malounis , Zisoula Ntasiou , Konstantinos Karantzalos , Dimitrios Michail , Ioannis Papoutsis

This paper surveys different publicly available neural network models used for detecting wildfires using regular visible-range cameras which are placed on hilltops or forest lookout towers. The neural network models are pre-trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Ziliang Hong , Emadeldeen Hamdan , Yifei Zhao , Tianxiao Ye , Hongyi Pan , A. Enis Cetin

Wildfires are becoming more frequent and their effects more devastating every day. Climate change has directly and indirectly affected the occurrence of these, as well as social phenomena have increased the vulnerability of people.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Eldan R. Daniel

Fire outbreaks pose critical threats to human life and infrastructure, necessitating high-fidelity early-warning systems that detect combustion precursors such as smoke. However, smoke plumes exhibit complex spatiotemporal dynamics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Nitish Kumar Mahala , Muzammil Khan , Pushpendra Kumar

A deep learning strategy is developed for fast and accurate gas property measurements using flame emission spectroscopy (FES). Particularly, the short-gated fast FES is essential to resolve fast-evolving combustion behaviors. However, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Taekeun Yoon , Seon Woong Kim , Hosung Byun , Younsik Kim , Campbell D. Carter , Hyungrok Do

Predicting wildfire spread is critical for land management and disaster preparedness. To this end, we present `Next Day Wildfire Spread,' a curated, large-scale, multivariate data set of historical wildfires aggregating nearly a decade of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Fantine Huot , R. Lily Hu , Nita Goyal , Tharun Sankar , Matthias Ihme , Yi-Fan Chen

Accurate and rapid prediction of wildfire trends is crucial for effective management and mitigation. However, the stochastic nature of fire propagation poses significant challenges in developing reliable simulators. In this paper, we…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Zeyu Xia , Sibo Cheng

Contemporary Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) research places a significant emphasis on transfer learning, showcasing its transformative potential in enhancing model performance across diverse domains. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Aditya V. Jonnalagadda , Hashim A. Hashim , Andrew Harris

Due to climate change, the extreme wildfire has become one of the most dangerous natural hazards to human civilization. Even though, some wildfires may be initially caused by human activity, but the spread of wildfires is mainly determined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Qijun Chen , Shaofan Li

After a wildfire, delineating burned areas (BAs) is crucial for quantifying damages and supporting ecosystem recovery. Current BA mapping approaches rely on computer vision models trained on post-event remote sensing imagery, but often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Maria Rodriguez , Minh-Tan Pham , Martin Sudmanns , Quentin Poterek , Oscar Narvaez

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

Identifying and characterizing flame fronts is the most common task in the computer-assisted analysis of data obtained from imaging techniques such as planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF), laser Rayleigh scattering (LRS), or particle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Rafael Reisenhofer , Johannes Kiefer , Emily J. King

Active fire detection in satellite imagery is of critical importance to the management of environmental conservation policies, supporting decision-making and law enforcement. This is a well established field, with many techniques being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Gabriel Henrique de Almeida Pereira , André Minoro Fusioka , Bogdan Tomoyuki Nassu , Rodrigo Minetto

Wildland fires pose a terrifying natural hazard, underscoring the urgent need to develop data-driven and physics-informed digital twins for wildfire prevention, monitoring, intervention, and response. In this direction of research, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Konstantinos Vogiatzoglou , Costas Papadimitriou , Vasilis Bontozoglou , Konstantinos Ampountolas