• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.1-10
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• 2014

This paper proposes a parallel implementation of the video based 4-stage fire detection algorithm using a general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU) to support real-time processing of the high computational algorithm. In addition, this paper compares the performance of the GPGPU based fire detection implementation with that of the CPU implementation to show the effectiveness of the proposed method. Experimental results using five fire included videos with an SXGA ($1400{\times}1050$) resolution, the proposed GPGPU implementation achieves 6.6x better performance that the CPU implementation, showing 30.53ms per frame which satisfies real-time processing (30 frames per second, 30fps) of the fire detection algorithm.