| # Hyperspectral and Multispectral Smoke Segmentation Datasets | |
| ## Overview | |
| Smoke segmentation is critical for wildfire management and industrial safety applications. Traditional visible-light-based methods face limitations due to insufficient spectral information, particularly struggling with **cloud interference** and **semi-transparent smoke regions**. | |
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| *Figure 1: Motivation for hyperspectral smoke segmentation. The upper part shows challenging smoke scenarios with cloud interference and semi-transparent regions in the visible light band. The lower part plots the spectral distribution of marked points, where yellow shaded regions highlight key discriminatory band ranges.* | |
| To address these challenges, we introduce: | |
| 1. **HSSDataset**: The first hyperspectral smoke segmentation dataset with 25 spectral bands | |
| 2. **MSSDataset**: A multispectral dataset with RGB-infrared paired images | |
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| ## HSSDataset: Hyperspectral Smoke Segmentation Dataset | |
| ### Dataset Overview | |
| HSSDataset is the **first hyperspectral smoke segmentation dataset**, built from an extensive collection of over 18,000 hyperspectral video frames captured across 20 real-world smoke scenarios. From this large-scale raw data collection, we carefully selected and annotated **1,007 high-quality samples** under diverse challenging conditions. | |
| ### Hyperspectral Camera System | |
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| *Figure 2: XIMEA MQ022HG-IM-SM5X5-NIR hyperspectral camera specifications and 25-band mosaic filter design.* | |
| We employ a **XIMEA MQ022HG-IM-SM5X5-NIR** hyperspectral camera with the following specifications: | |
| - **Spectral Bands**: 25 bands spanning 600-974nm | |
| - **Wavelengths (nm)**: 600, 616, 632, 647, 664, 680, 696, 712, 728, 744, 760, 776, 792, 808, 824, 840, 856, 872, 888, 894, 910, 926, 942, 958, 974 | |
| - **Filter Design**: Specialized 5×5 mosaic filter array deployed on the sensor surface | |
| - **Technology**: Frame-style hyperspectral acquisition based on mosaic coating | |
| **Key Advantages**: | |
| - Simultaneous balance of spectral and spatial resolution | |
| - Rapid acquisition of both spectral and spatial information | |
| - High integration density | |
| - Ability to capture unique "spectral fingerprints" of smoke | |
| ### Data Collection | |
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| *Figure 3: The challenging scenarios of HSSDataset.* | |
| Data collection was conducted across **20 real-world industrial emission scenarios**, capturing over **18,000 hyperspectral video frames**. The collection targeted diverse smoke conditions, including: | |
| #### Scene-based Challenging Scenarios: | |
| - **High Exposure Environments**: Bright lighting conditions with overexposed regions (214 samples) | |
| - **Low Visibility Conditions**: Poor lighting and atmospheric conditions (118 samples) | |
| - **Complex Backgrounds**: Industrial environments with cluttered backgrounds (411 samples) | |
| - **Cloud Interference**: Scenes with cloud-smoke confusion scenarios (264 samples) | |
| #### Smoke-based Challenging Scenarios: | |
| - **Early-stage Minimal Smoke**: Small smoke plumes in initial emission phases (268 samples) | |
| - **Semi-transparent Regions**: Varying smoke opacity and transparency (258 samples) | |
| - **Complex-shaped Smoke**: Irregular smoke patterns with unclear boundaries (481 samples) | |
| ### Annotation Protocol: Many-to-One Annotations | |
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| *Figure 4: Many-to-One annotations for hyperspectral smoke segmentation.* | |
| To ensure annotation reliability and capture the inherent uncertainty in smoke boundary delineation, we employ a rigorous **Many-to-One annotations** protocol: | |
| #### Process: | |
| 1. **Sampling Strategy**: Systematically sample every 18th frame from the 18,000+ collected frames | |
| 2. **Band-Averaged Image Generation**: Generate grayscale images by computing arithmetic mean across all 25 spectral bands | |
| 3. **Multiple Annotators**: Each frame receives three independent ground truth masks from three different expert annotators | |
| 4. **Ground Truth Definition**: Final masks generated through **majority voting** - each pixel classified as smoke if at least two-thirds of annotators label it as smoke | |
| #### Inter-Annotator Agreement: | |
| - **Unanimous agreement (3/3)**: 52.07% of annotated smoke pixels | |
| - **Majority agreement (2/3)**: 14.14% of annotated smoke pixels | |
| - **Single annotator (1/3)**: 33.79% (excluded from final ground truth) | |
| #### Quality Control: | |
| Special emphasis placed on challenging regions including: | |
| - Early-stage minimal smoke | |
| - Semi-transparent regions | |
| - Blurred boundaries | |
| - Cloud interference areas | |
| ### Dataset Structure | |
| ``` | |
| HSS_VOC/ | |
| ├── npy_multichannel/ # Hyperspectral data (25 bands) | |
| │ ├── 10_frame_0001.npy | |
| │ ├── 10_frame_0019.npy | |
| │ └── ... | |
| ├── Mask/ # Final ground truth masks | |
| │ ├── 10_frame_0001.png # Majority voting results | |
| │ ├── 10_frame_0019.png | |
| │ └── ... | |
| ├── Annotation_1/ # Annotator 1's masks | |
| │ └── *.png | |
| ├── Annotation_2/ # Annotator 2's masks | |
| │ └── *.png | |
| ├── Annotation_3/ # Annotator 3's masks | |
| │ └── *.png | |
| └── split/ # Dataset split files | |
| ├── train.txt # Training set sample list | |
| ├── val.txt # Validation set sample list | |
| └── test.txt # Test set sample list | |
| ``` | |
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| ## MSSDataset: Multispectral Smoke Segmentation Dataset | |
| ### Dataset Overview | |
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| *Figure 5: Visible and infrared frame pairs in MSSDataset.* | |
| To validate the generalizability of our method beyond hyperspectral data, we constructed a **multispectral smoke segmentation dataset (MSSDataset)** derived from the [FLAME2 dataset](https://ieee-dataport.org/open-access/flame-2-fire-detection-and-modeling-aerial-multi-spectral-image-dataset). | |
| ### Dataset Specifications | |
| - **Source**: [FLAME2 dataset](https://ieee-dataport.org/open-access/flame-2-fire-detection-and-modeling-aerial-multi-spectral-image-dataset) | |
| - **Spectral Channels**: 4 channels (RGB + Infrared) | |
| - **Annotated Samples**: 200 carefully selected samples | |
| - **Scenarios**: Wildland fire smoke under various environmental conditions | |
| - **Format**: RGB-IR paired multispectral cubes | |
| ### Key Features | |
| - Enhanced infrared visualization for better smoke detection | |
| - Diverse wildfire scenarios | |
| - Distinct smoke features suitable for annotation | |
| - Complementary to HSSDataset for cross-modality validation | |
| ### Dataset Structure | |
| ``` | |
| FLAME2_VOC/ | |
| ├── npy_multichannel/ # Multispectral data (4 channels: RGB+IR) | |
| │ └── *.npy | |
| ├── Mask/ # Ground truth masks | |
| │ └── *.png | |
| └── split/ # Dataset split files | |
| ├── train.txt # Training set sample list | |
| ├── val.txt # Validation set sample list | |
| └── test.txt # Test set sample list | |
| ``` | |
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| ## Data Format | |
| ### Hyperspectral Data (HSSDataset) | |
| Each `.npy` file contains a hyperspectral image cube: | |
| - **Shape**: `(H, W, 25)` where H and W are spatial dimensions | |
| - **Data Type**: `float32` or `uint16` | |
| - **Channels**: 25 spectral bands (600-974nm) | |
| - **Organization**: Channels ordered by wavelength | |
| Example loading code: | |
| ```python | |
| import numpy as np | |
| # Load hyperspectral data | |
| hsi_data = np.load('10_frame_0001.npy') # Shape: (H, W, 25) | |
| # Access specific spectral band | |
| band_600nm = hsi_data[:, :, 0] # First band (600nm) | |
| band_974nm = hsi_data[:, :, 24] # Last band (974nm) | |
| # Generate band-averaged image (for visualization) | |
| band_avg = np.mean(hsi_data, axis=2) | |
| ``` | |
| ### Multispectral Data (MSSDataset) | |
| Each `.npy` file contains a multispectral image: | |
| - **Shape**: `(H, W, 4)` where H and W are spatial dimensions | |
| - **Data Type**: `float32` | |
| - **Channels**: 4 channels (RGB + IR) | |
| - **Channel Order**: `[R, G, B, IR]` | |
| Example loading code: | |
| ```python | |
| import numpy as np | |
| # Load multispectral data | |
| msi_data = np.load('sample_001.npy') # Shape: (H, W, 4) | |
| # Access RGB channels | |
| rgb = msi_data[:, :, :3] | |
| # Access infrared channel | |
| ir = msi_data[:, :, 3] | |
| ``` | |
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| ## 📝 Citation | |
| If you use these datasets in your research, please cite: | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @article{yao2026hyperspectral, | |
| title={Hyperspectral Smoke Segmentation via Mixture of Prototypes}, | |
| author={Yao, Lujian and Zhao, Haitao and Kong, Xianghai and Xu, Yuhan} | |
| year={2026}, | |
| journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.10858}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| **Dataset on Hugging Face:** [https://huggingface.co/datasets/LujianYao/HSSDataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/LujianYao/HSSDataset) | |
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| ## License | |
| [](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) | |
| This dataset is released under the **Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)**.For more details, see the full license at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ | |
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| ## Acknowledgments | |
| - [FLAME2 dataset](https://ieee-dataport.org/open-access/flame-2-fire-detection-and-modeling-aerial-multi-spectral-image-dataset) authors for providing the source data for MSSDataset | |