Detecting forest fire smoke during the initial stages is vital for preventing forest fire events. Recent studies have shown that exploring spatial and temporal features of the image sequence is important for this task. Nevertheless, since the long distance wildfire smoke usually move slowly and lacks salient features, accurate smoke detection is still a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a novel Attention Enhanced Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Network (ABi-LSTM) for video based forest fire smoke recognition. The proposed ABi-LSTM consists of the spatial features extraction network, the Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Network(LSTM), and the temporal attention subnetwork, which can not only capture discriminative spatiotemporal features from image patch sequences but also pay different levels of attention to different patches. Experiments show that out ABi-LSTM is capable of achieving best accuracy and less false alarms on different types of scenarios. The ABi-LSTM model achieve a highly accuracy of 97.8%, and there is 4.4% improvement over the image-based deep learning model.

Background subtraction techniques are often treated as fundamental and significant ways to analyze and understand video content. In this paper, we propose a weight-sample-based method for foreground detection. This method allows us to use a few samples with variable weights to achieve effective change detection. To rapidly adapt to changing scenarios, a minimum-weight update policy is first proposed to replace the most inefficient sample instead of the oldest sample or a random sample. In addition, a reward-and-penalty weighting strategy is put forward to reinforce active samples and punish others. In this way, the weights of relatively effective samples are increased and the false updating of effective samples with smaller weights is reduced. Moreover, some other strategies, such as spatial-diffusion policy and random time subsampling, are also incorporated to ensure the flexibility of the proposed method. Finally, in our experiments, an adaptive feedback technique is incorporated into our algorithm to adapt to more challenging videos, and the final results indicate that our method is superior to the state-of-the-art approaches on the challenging CDnet data set.

Arterial traffic is the artery of urban transport and loads huge traffic pressure. In order to alleviate its traffic pressure effectively, a coordinated arterial traffic type-2 fuzzy logic control (FLC) method is proposed. First, arterial traffic flow model and evaluation index model are set up, in which the turning vehicles and lane length are given full consideration. The traditional queue spillover phenomenon in the traffic models can be prevented here. Second, aiming at the coordination and dynamic uncertainty problem in arterial traffic, a coordinated arterial traffic type-2 fuzzy coordination control method is put forward. It consists of two-layer type-2 fuzzy controller, the basic control layer and the coordination layer. The former allocates green time according to the traffic situation of each intersection, while the latter adjusts each intersection's green time on basis of the vehicles between the intersection and the downstream intersections for the purpose of enlarging green wave band. Finally, in order to configure the high-dimensional complex parameters of the coordinated two-layer type-2 FLC effectively, the parameters of membership function and the rules of the two controllers are optimized alternately by gravitational search algorithm. The simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method from several aspects.