WA-YOLO: a forest fire smoke detection method based on wavelet convolution and SimAM
摘要
To improve accuracy and generalization in early forest fire smoke detection, this paper proposes a novel Wavelet-Attention YOLO (WA-YOLO) scheme based on wavelet convolution and the SimAM attention mechanism. The model integrates wavelet convolution to enhance multi-scale extraction of high- and low-frequency smoke features, and incorporates SimAM to enhance attention on smoke regions for precise localization. A Temporal Directional Spatial Enhancement (TDSE) structure is designed to optimize feature fusion and information flow, while a Dual-Branch Initialization Optimization (DBIO) strategy improves detection head initialization, accelerating convergence and reducing false positives. Experimental results on the both PFE-v8 and try123-v4 datasets show that the proposed WA-YOLO can improve precision by 3.6% and mAP@50% by 1.4% on try123-v4, and achieve 96.5% precision and 86.7% mAP@50% on PFE-v8, demonstrating strong generalization ability and practical value for early forest fire warning. GitHub: https://github.com/zel4539/WA-YOLO