AI Targets Camouflage Patterns

When a camouflage pattern becomes a beacon to AI, where can a soldier hide?

Before Artificial Intelligence (AI), camouflage patterns could allow a soldier to blend into the background, utilizing colors and shapes to help hide them from adversaries. The problem with these camouflage patterns for the soldier is that they are not unique patterns, every soldier wears the same pattern which is printed in 25-inch or 32-inch repeating tiles due to the rotary printing technology used by textile printers around the world.?The width of the pattern is usually capped at 50-60 inches, these limitations mean that with a camouflage pattern in a computer file, AI will be able to identify the camouflage pattern quite easily from photographs, videos and even some LiDAR systems (Lasers that operate like Radar). The camouflage that was supposed to help conceal the soldier is now a beacon to the enemy.

Given the recent improvements in video quality and decrease in costs for small video cameras, such as those used in commercial drones, with a few modifications to the software of the drone could allow them to track and target enemy soldiers on the battlefield because of their camouflage uniform.

Guy Cramer, President/CEO of Hyperstealth Biotechnology Corp., a camouflage designer who has developed over 14,000 patterns since 2003 and has had over 7 million military uniforms issued with his patterns realized that those industry limitations with camouflage printing would allow for AI to scan for these patterns making the soldiers wearing them vulnerable to enemy surveillance.

On April 12, 2024, Guy published a video https://vimeo.com/933555613 regarding a simple video game cheat developed by a 17-year-old teenager that was being used to bypass anti-cheat software which would detect movement and the human shape to detect targets on his monitor and move his mouse to the target automatically. Guy realized that this simple, yet effective software could be integrated into drones in the Ukraine war to detect enemy movement, to allow AI to target the soldier or equipment to counter enemy jamming techniques.?

While movement is one of the biggest contributors to spotting camouflaged soldiers or equipment, Guy realized that the limitations of printed camouflage patterns would help AI spot the pattern in the environment, even when they weren’t moving.

This AI detection can also be applied to manufactured camouflage nets, and painted camouflage patterns on military equipment such as tanks, vehicles and aircraft which often follow a similar pattern on each individual piece of equipment.

Many countries have between one to three standard frontline camouflage patterns for their soldiers meaning that the amount of memory required by the AI to identify those soldiers from their uniform pattern is relatively small given that these are basic two-dimensional patterns. However, even an AI system with all known camouflage patterns could still easily cope with detection of any camouflage issued uniform given the vast improvements with computing power over the past few years.??

There are a few proprietary items that Guy cannot disclose regarding this AI camouflage pattern detection system, but the limitations of textile printing and the military specification of the fabric allows for unique markers that are not obvious to the human visual system but standout to an AI processor.????????

How does a soldier then avoid AI detection? The only solution is to not let the AI see any part of the pattern and this negates the uniform functionality and mobility of the soldier. Guy has a solution to that, as seen at the end of the countermeasures video?https://vimeo.com/933555613 Guy shows how his patented invisibility material can defeat visible, ultraviolet, infrared, thermal sensors and cameras but also laser detection by LiDAR. This may be one of the few ways to hide from AI!??

More video demonstrations of Hyperstealth's invisibility material and other patented inventions can be seen on their web pages: https://hyperstealth.com/ and https://hyperstealth.net/

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