UAV-Based Efficient and Reliable Wildfire Detection on the Edge
- Designed an autonomous wildfire detection system using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with advanced computer vision technology.
- Utilized the Flame2 dataset, which integrates RGB and infrared (IR) multispectral imagery to enhance fire detection under various environmental conditions.
- Developed a modified YOLOv8 (You Only Look Once) convolutional neural network to accurately detect wildfires in challenging scenarios such as smoke, nighttime, and dense vegetation.
- Achieved state-of-the-art accuracy with a 99.58% wildfire classification accuracy and an F1-score of 99.76%, significantly outperforming existing wildfire detection systems.
- Optimized the model for deployment on edge devices, ensuring real-time wildfire detection with minimal latency and high reliability.
- Published in the IEEE 10th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT).
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