MFGDiffusion: Mask-Guided Smoke Synthesis for Enhanced Forest Fire Detection

TL;DR

This paper introduces MFGDiffusion, a novel framework for generating realistic and diverse forest fire smoke images using mask-guided diffusion techniques, which improves the training data quality for better smoke detection.

Contribution

The paper presents a new mask-guided diffusion model with a specialized loss function and multimodal filtering to synthesize high-quality smoke images for forest fire detection.

Findings

Generated smoke images are realistic and diverse.

Synthetic data enhances forest fire smoke detection accuracy.

The method outperforms existing inpainting models in quality and consistency.

Abstract

Smoke is the first visible indicator of a wildfire.With the advancement of deep learning, image-based smoke detection has become a crucial method for detecting and preventing forest fires. However, the scarcity of smoke image data from forest fires is one of the significant factors hindering the detection of forest fire smoke. Image generation models offer a promising solution for synthesizing realistic smoke images. However, current inpainting models exhibit limitations in generating high-quality smoke representations, particularly manifesting as inconsistencies between synthesized smoke and background contexts. To solve these problems, we proposed a comprehensive framework for generating forest fire smoke images. Firstly, we employed the pre-trained segmentation model and the multimodal model to obtain smoke masks and image captions.Then, to address the insufficient utilization of masks and masked images by inpainting models, we introduced a network architecture guided by mask and masked image features. We also proposed a new loss function, the mask random difference loss, which enhances the consistency of the generated effects around the mask by randomly expanding and eroding the mask edges.Finally, to generate a smoke image dataset using random masks for subsequent detection tasks, we incorporated smoke characteristics and use a multimodal large language model as a filtering tool to select diverse and reasonable smoke images, thereby improving the quality of the synthetic dataset. Experiments showed that our generated smoke images are realistic and diverse, and effectively enhance the performance of forest fire smoke detection models. Code is available at https://github.com/wghr123/MFGDiffusion.