Image Analysis and Processing for Generating Camouflages from Digital Earth Photographs

Abstract

Camouflage is present both on the civilian market and in military. It is used by hunters and military enthusiasts, but also by clothing designers and game developers. They are forced to design their own or choose between already developed camouflages, both military and civilian, so they cannot adapt it to their needs in a fast and easy way. Currently, there are not many software solutions that allow for easy generation of digital camouflages and support the user in selecting the colors for final camouflage result. The approach presented in the paper proposes to solve these problems by analyzing the colors from digital Earth images of the target areas and using the developed image processing algorithm for generating digital camouflages. Based on the proposed approach and its designed algorithm, the application was created to allow the user to easily generate the digital camouflages. The paper also presents the results of analysis of camouflage quality, comparing the camouflages generated with the developed algorithms and their application and the selected market generators together with the selected military digital camouflages. By using the proposed algorithm to generate the camouflage and implementing the centroid algorithm for color extraction, it was possible to create better quality camouflages compared to those created by existing software solutions. This was supported by an analysis of the camouflage quality in chosen terrain variants, in which developed application achieved the best results.