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Given its direct impact on human safety and the environment, fire detection is a difficult but crucial problem. To prevent injuries and property damage, advanced technology requires appropriate methods for detecting fires as quickly as possible. In this study, to reduce the loss of human lives and property damage, we introduce the development of the vision-based early flame recognition and notification approach using artificial intelligence for assisting BVI people. The proposed fire alarm control system for indoor buildings can provide accurate information on fire scenes. In our proposed method, all the processes performed manually were automated, and the performance efficiency and quality of fire classification were improved. To perform real-time monitoring and enhance the detection accuracy of indoor fire disasters, the proposed system uses the YOLOv5m model, which is an updated version of the traditional YOLOv5. The experimental results show that the proposed system successfully detected and notified the occurrence of catastrophic fires with high speed and accuracy at any time of day or night, regardless of the shape or size of the fire. Finally, we compared the competitiveness level of our method with that of other conventional fire-detection methods to confirm the seamless classification results achieved using performance evaluation matrices.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22197305","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,28]],"date-time":"2022-09-28T03:30:37Z","timestamp":1664335837000},"page":"7305","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":56,"title":["Improved Real-Time Fire Warning System Based on Advanced Technologies for Visually Impaired People"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5923-8695","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Akmalbek Bobomirzaevich","family":"Abdusalomov","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Engineering, Gachon University, Sujeong-Gu, Seongnam-si 461-701, Gyeonggi-do, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1424-0799","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mukhriddin","family":"Mukhiddinov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Engineering, Gachon University, Sujeong-Gu, Seongnam-si 461-701, Gyeonggi-do, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alpamis","family":"Kutlimuratov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Engineering, Gachon University, Sujeong-Gu, Seongnam-si 461-701, Gyeonggi-do, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Taeg Keun","family":"Whangbo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Engineering, Gachon University, Sujeong-Gu, Seongnam-si 461-701, Gyeonggi-do, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"(2021, August 10). 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