Flame detection via Quaternion Discrete Cosine Transform based Spectral Saliency

To address the problem of detecting the specific object of flame, this paper proposes quaternion discrete cosine transform based video flame detection algorithm in conjunction with the bottom-up visual attention mechanisms and the flame features. According to the characteristics of the flame to be detected, the brightness, color, texture and motion information of the image are respectively defined and extracted to form a quaternion image, and then the flame saliency map is produced by Quaternion discrete cosine Transform with this quaternion image. Extensive experimental results verify the accuracy and robustness of the proposed method on flame detection.