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Lightweight Forest Flame Smoke Detection Algorithm Based on Yolov5

Ziyi Yang
Frontiers in Science and Engineering, (2025), Vol.5, No.7, pp.26-34
Published: July 22, 2025
DOI: 10.54691/3nfgfh54
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Abstract

Forest smoke and flame detection is dominant in ensuring forest safety. To extinguish fire sources promptly and prevent the spread of wildfires, this paper proposes a lightweight improved YOLOv5 algorithm that is more accessible to embedded devices. The proposed algorithm is based on two pivotal ideas: (1) Introducing a normalization-based NAM attention mechanism into the neck network, which suppresses insignificant weights through weight sparsity penalties to enhance key feature extraction. (2) Incorporating a Slim-neck structure, which leverages GSConv and VoVGSCSP to construct a lightweight neck network. Research findings indicate that the optimized network outperforms the baseline YOLOv5s architecture, with a 3.34% gain in precision (P), while reducing FLOPs by 8.8%. This ensures a more lightweight model while maintaining detection accuracy.

Keywords: Forest fire; YOLOv5; lightweight; NAM; Slim-neck.
APA Citation: Ziyi Yang (2025). Lightweight Forest Flame Smoke Detection Algorithm Based on Yolov5. Frontiers in Science and Engineering, 5(7), 26-34. https://doi.org/10.54691/3nfgfh54

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