High Resolution Fire Detection and Targeting with Multi-View, Multi-Sensor Stereo Vision

This SBIR topic aims to develop a system for automatic detection and targeting of external uncontrolled deckhouse fires. The proposed Automatic Fire Detection and Targeting System (AFDTS) will use multiple thermal and visible-light sensors to detect and localize flames along the side of a deckhouse, triggering and guiding an automated fire suppression system. Thermal sensors will detect fires from multiple views, then refine their 3-d locations with visible-light stereo sensors using algorithms built on top of Stottler Henke’s existing prototype fire detection software, and finally fuse hypotheses across views into a single precise 3-d point location. Stottler Henke’s Phase I effort will result in a rigorous validation of this approach and a viable design for Phase II implementation. This will constitute a significant stride towards an automatic fire detection system in a radically new setting where high-resolution 3-d targeting is necessary.