Abstract
It was reported that the ratio of fire death toll at senior citizen of Yamaguchi Pref. was higher than the national avarage in Japan (2004). Therefore, the fire prevention system which alerts the sign of fire has been desired. This paper proposes the two dimensional monitoring system of heat source under the complex environment (such as a gus stove in the daily life) for fire prevention. This system is characterized by the optical flow (apparent velocity) using a spatiotemporal local optimization method.