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Providing a Designing Assistant Software Predicting the

Effectiveness of Camouflage Patterns
S. M. Shafiei1, M. Amani Tehran2, S. Gorji Kandi*3

Color Imaging & Color Image Processing Dep., Institute for Color Science and Technology
(Received:10/06/2011 , Accepted:12/26/2011)

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Abstract

In different fields, including military industries, for whether military forces or military armament, camouflage is of high
importance. The question is which camouflage pattern, in what size, with which color composition is more suitable for
soldiers camouflage, in a specific environment. The performance of camouflage patterns are usually estimated by on
the time needed for recognizing the concealed object. This effort is seeking to prepare a computer software to answer
such questions. Having images of camouflage Environment, Pattern & Object, this software designs a test; The result of
each test is the mean recognition time among the background image. The prepared software has advanced features
such as zoom background image, change size, angle, color and camouflage schemes, blur the edges of the object, the
size of an object to be camouflaged, and so on. The results were analysed several times and through different ways, and
are compatible with the proved principles of camouflage issue.

Keywords: Camouflage, Camouflage Pattern, Camouflage Environment, Hiding Object, Recognition Time.

Corresponding author E-mail: sgorji@icrc.ac.ir

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