[logfromblammo]

You can buy civilian camouflage that takes actual photographs from the area you will be hunting in, replaces a range of greens in it with hunter's orange, and prints it on field-appropriate clothing. As long as you launder it correctly (no UV whiteners), it is near-perfect camouflage versus dichromat prey animals, while still standing out to the trichromat animals [with the guns].

If you skip the green-to-orange replacement step, it's already great military camouflage for the exact spot shown in the source photograph. So if you trained a GAN on many photographs from the same area, I imagine it could make camouflage that functions like a printable ghillie suit.

Then you could also take the output images, wrap them around a human model, pose the model randomly in front of a real terrain background, and penalize any camouflage image that cannot prevent an object classifier from detecting the camouflaged human model, in any pose, in front of any background image in the terrain corpus.

Though I'd expect that the more variety you have in the terrain image corpus, the less effective the camouflage is against the object classifier.

[yazan94]

That is super interesting! Could you share the app/website for such a service?

[logfromblammo]

I saw a flyer at an outdoor-activities retail store. I didn't take one, but they had samples set up in a little diorama-type display.

So I guess you could go to a Bass Pro Shop or Cabela's or Gander Mtn. (if yours is still open), and look near the hunting gear? I'm not sure that it made a viable business, but it sure looked cool when I saw it.