Opto-Electronic Engineering, Volume. 52, Issue 1, 240253(2025)

Image-based aerial fire detector based on cross-scale fusion

Pei Zhang1...3, Hengying Ren1,*, Jiaqi Tian2, Tong Chen2, Weiwei Yan1 and Wei Zhang2 |Show fewer author(s)
Author Affiliations
  • 1Electromechanical System Research Department, AVIC the First Aircraft Institute, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710089, China
  • 2School of Microelectronics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 3State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China
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    Figures & Tables(17)
    Detector system workflow
    Overall structure of the image-based aviation fire detector hardware
    Model conversion process
    Network topology
    Visual interface. (a) Multi-sensor parallel display; (b) Flame bomb diagram alarm and text prompt; (c) Smoke grenade map alarm and text prompt
    Overall structure of the YOLOv5s network
    Ghost module
    Co-attention module
    GSConv module
    Structure of the GS bottleneck module and VoV-GSCSP module. (a) GS bottleneck module structure; (b) VoV-GSCSP module structure
    Diagram of ASFF structure
    Schematic diagram of the test environment. (a) Large-scale high-altitude environment simulation device; (b) In-cabin test environment
    • Table 1. Implementation results of the fire detection network ablation

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      Table 1. Implementation results of the fire detection network ablation

      ModelGhostNetCoordinated attentionLightweight feature fusion networkSlim-ASFFLoss functionAP50 /%AP /%Params/MFLOPs/G
      YOLOv5s89.447.97.116.5
      The model of this article86.845.05.010.6
      87.445.75.010.7
      88.546.94.28.5
      90.148.64.48.9
      91.450.14.48.9
    • Table 2. Comparative experimental results of lightweight object detection networks

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      Table 2. Comparative experimental results of lightweight object detection networks

      ModelAP50/%AP/%Params/MFLOPs/G
      YOLOv6s[16]90.249.118.545.3
      YOLOv7-tiny[17]89.248.86.013.2
      YOLOv8s90.749.511.228.6
      SSDLite[18]85.844.64.39.6
      EfficientDet-D1[19]87.646.16.66.2
      YOLOv9-T[20]89.649.02.711.0
      YOLOv10-N[21]88.447.62.36.4
      RT-DETR-Res18[22]89.649.220.060.5
      The model of this article91.450.14.48.9
    • Table 3. Average response time of system to fireworks under different working conditions

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      Table 3. Average response time of system to fireworks under different working conditions

      Test environmentProject2 m3 m4 m
      /Number of tests303030
      /Alarm times303030
      Bright environmentPolyurethane foam board (fire)/s5.26.87.8
      Cotton rope (fire)/s5.06.57.4
      Smoke cake (smoke)/s11.013.017.0
      Dark environmentPolyurethane foam board (fire)/s6.37.48.3
      Cotton rope (fire)/s5.56.97.8
      Smoke cake (smoke)/s12.015.019.0
    • Table 4. Experimental results of the detector in this paper compared with the traditional fire detector

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      Table 4. Experimental results of the detector in this paper compared with the traditional fire detector

      Test materialsNumber of trialsNumber of detector alarms in this paperNumber of alarms from traditional fire detectorsThe slowest response time of the detector in this paper/sThe slowest response time of traditional fire detectors/sThe average response time of the detector in this paper/sThe average response time of traditional fire detector/s
      Polyurethane foam board (fire)101059.01086.597
      Smoke cake (smoke)1010716.55712.045
    • Table 5. False alarm rate of detector under the influence of different environmental light

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      Table 5. False alarm rate of detector under the influence of different environmental light

      ProjectInterference source 1Interference source 2Interference source 3
      Number of tests303030
      False alarm rate000
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    Category: Article

    Received: Oct. 27, 2024

    Accepted: Dec. 23, 2024

    Published Online: Feb. 21, 2025

    The Author Email: Ren Hengying (任恒英)

    DOI:10.12086/oee.2025.240253

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