Forest Fire causes more disasters to the environment. Detecting the fire in the early stage will play a crucial role to prevent the risky effects. The vision-based approaches have gained more impact than the conventional fire detection methods with respect to accuracy and less false alarms. A reliable and efficient computer vision based technique to retrieve fire-colored pixels in still images is proposed in this article. It adopts both RGB and L*a*b* space for segmenting the fire-colored pixels on colour feature. The proposed results are compared with the current methods. The results of proposed method bring satisfactory results than the existing techniques.

Object detection, Color Spaces, Thresholding, Segmentation

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