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Camouflage design, assessment and breaking techniques: a survey

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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.

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