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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2015
Shyam Boriah, Cambridge, MA (US);
Vipin Kumar, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Varun Mithal, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Ankush Khandelwal, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Shyam Boriah, Cambridge, MA (US);
Vipin Kumar, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Varun Mithal, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Ankush Khandelwal, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Regents of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
A method reduces processing time required to identify locations burned by fire by receiving a feature value for each pixel in an image, each pixel representing a sub-area of a location. Pixels are then grouped based on similarities of the feature values to form candidate burn events. For each candidate burn event, a probability that the candidate burn event is a true burn event is determined based on at least one further feature value for each pixel in the candidate burn event. Candidate burn events that have a probability below a threshold are removed from further consideration as burn events to produce a set of remaining candidate burn events.