Few animals can hide their signatures into their surroundings to hunt or avoid being hunted, termed as natural camouflage. Natural camouflage inspires researchers to design various algorithms to artificially create camouflage images and widely apply them in the military field. It is also essential to evaluate the effectiveness of artificially created camouflage images. Several algorithms have been developed in the literature to evaluate camouflage design techniques. Camouflage breaking systems extract the object from its surroundings. Due to the complexity of the problem, it is challenging to design an algorithm for breaking camouflage. The camouflaged objects cannot be adequately visible by the human vision systems. Existing works on these problems have been done based on either biological characteristics or artificially. This article discusses various camouflage design, assessment, and breaking techniques in the literature. This article also addresses several issues of interest as well as future research direction in this area. We hope this review will help the reader learn the recent advances in camouflage design, assessment, and breaking techniques available in the literature.

很少有动物可以将其签名隐藏在周围环境中以进行狩猎或避免被狩猎，这被称为自然伪装。天然迷彩激发研究人员设计各种算法来人为地创建迷彩图像并将其广泛应用于军事领域。评估人造伪装图像的有效性也很重要。文献中已经开发了几种算法来评估伪装设计技术。伪装破坏系统会从周围环境中提取物体。由于问题的复杂性，设计一种打破迷彩的算法具有挑战性。被伪装的物体不能被人类视觉系统充分看到。针对这些问题的现有工作已经基于生物学特性或人为地完成。本文讨论了文献中的各种迷彩设计，评估和破坏技术。本文还讨论了一些有趣的问题以及该领域的未来研究方向。我们希望这篇评论能够帮助读者了解文献中迷彩设计，评估和突破技术的最新进展。