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Experimental results on different video frames show that the proposed smoke detection system has robust performance on detecting the existence of smoke which shows the effectiveness of the proposed smoke detection system.
It is shown that such a smoke detector is able to operate reliably under low concentration of smoke and high relative humidity conditions.
Proceedings ArticleDOI
B. Charumporn, Sigeru Omatu 
05 Aug 2002
9 Citations
The idea of this research can be used for making a smart smoke detector in order to detect a harmful burning material before it is too late to stop the fire.
Experimental results provide that the proposed method gives good performance for real smoke detection.
The SDAA was found to be very accurate in determining detector activation times for both high- and low-velocity smoke flows.
Proceedings ArticleDOI
Chao-Ching Ho, Tzu-Hsin Kuo 
14 Jul 2009
42 Citations
Experimental results in a variety of conditions show the proposed method is capable of detecting fire smoke reliably.
It was proved that the proposed method is able to reliably detect the long-distance wildfire smoke and simultaneously produce very few false alarms in actual applications.
Experimental results show that the proposed smoke detection algorithm performs well than the conventional smoke detection algorithms in terms of accuracy of smoke detection.
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J. Geiman, D.T. Gottuk 
25 Citations
The data showed that there was a large amount of variability in the measured smoke optical density values outside a detector at the time of alarm.

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