SeamCam: Quantifying Seamless Camouflage via Multi-Cue Visual Detectability

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16515v1
• Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 18:08:27 GMT
• Title: SeamCam: Quantifying Seamless Camouflage via Multi-Cue Visual Detectability
• Abstract summary: We introduce SeamCam, a metric that quantifies how detectable an animal is from the available visual evidence.<n>Given an image and a target species, SeamCam generates category-conditioned detection proposals, extracts segmentation masks, and identifies the subset whose collective union yields the highest IoU with the ground-truth mask.<n>In a human two-alternative forced-choice study with 94 participants and 2,390 comparisons, SeamCam achieves 78.82% agreement with human camouflage difficulty judgments, outperforming state-of-the-art by about 25%.
• Score: 30.862443732158933
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Animals are described as effectively camouflaged when they blend seamlessly with their surrounding, yet no standardized quantitative measure of this seamlessness exists. We address this gap by framing camouflage evaluation as a visual localization problem: a well-camouflaged animal is one that remains difficult to detect even when its category is known. We introduce SeamCam (Seamless Camouflage), a metric that quantifies how detectable an animal is from the available visual evidence. Given an image and a target species, SeamCam generates category-conditioned detection proposals, extracts segmentation masks, and identifies the subset whose collective union yields the highest IoU with the ground-truth mask. The SeamCam score is one minus this maximum recoverable localization signal, where a higher score indicates stronger camouflage (i.e., lower detectability). In a human two-alternative forced-choice study with 94 participants and 2,390 comparisons, SeamCam achieves 78.82% agreement with human camouflage difficulty judgments, outperforming state-of-the-art by about 25%. We then demonstrate SeamCam's utility as a preference signal for Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) to fine-tune a diffusion-based inpainting model for camouflage generation. This offers an affordable training approach with an objective explicitly suited for camouflage generation, unlike typical diffusion models. To support rigorous benchmarking, we further introduce CamFG-1.5k, a curated dataset of 1,521 high-resolution images in which animals are fully visible prior to camouflage generation, enabling unbiased evaluation by controlling for occlusion artifacts present in existing datasets. https://7amin.github.io/SeamCam/

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