Emergent Generation of Camouflage Patterns by Artificial Ants

Abstract

A camouflage pattern is a texture pattern that contains various colors and localized shapes to be blended with landscapes or objects. Although most of camouflage patterns are generally created by randomly combining colors and various local shapes based on human subjectivity, it can be difficult to generate an appropriate camouflage pattern according to a specific background image. In this paper, we propose a method that can emergently generate complex camouflage patterns by using an Ant Painting algorithm. In the proposed method, after some features of an input image are extracted, artificial ants draws a camouflage according to the features. We demonstrate that, by interaction among ants, the proposed method can generate camouflage patterns which are more complex but blends better with the background image than random generation.