High Resolution Fire Detection and Targeting with Multi-View, Multi-Sensor Stereo Vision Navy SBIR FY2010.1 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2010.1 Topic No.: N101-060 Topic Title: High Resolution Fire Detection and Targeting with Multi-View, Multi-Sensor Stereo Vision Proposal No.: N101-060-0597 Firm: Stottler Henke Associates, Inc. 951 Mariner's Island Blvd., STE 360 San Mateo, California 94404 Contact: Dan Fu Phone: (650) 931-2700 Web Site: www.stottlerhenke.com Abstract: This SBIR topic aims to develop a system for automatic detection and targeting of external uncontrolled deckhouse fires. The proposed Automatic Fire Detection and Targeting System (AFDTS) will use multiple thermal and visible-light sensors to detect and localize flames along the side of a deckhouse, triggering and guiding an automated fire suppression system. Thermal sensors will detect fires from multiple views, then refine their 3-d locations with visible-light stereo sensors using algorithms built on top of Stottler Henke's existing prototype fire detection software, and finally fuse hypotheses across views into a single precise 3-d point location. Stottler Henke's Phase I effort will result in a rigorous validation of this approach and a viable design for Phase II implementation. This will constitute a significant stride towards an automatic fire detection system in a radically new setting where high-resolution 3-d targeting is necessary. Benefits: Though the system described will be profoundly useful in the particular domain of automatic fire suppression for composite-material warship superstructures, the technology resulting from this effort will be valuable well beyond this domain. The system we develop will allow for effective real-time automatic fire detection and 3-d localization in arbitrary environments. Particular areas of application include commercial maritime vessels, offshore drilling platforms, land-based production facilities with high fire hazard, and any other private or public structures representing a high level of exposure or liability with respect to fire damage. Return