Can camouflage deceive machine perception?

Could modern warships use camouflage to confuse machine vision?

Potentially, especially with changeable patterns, but the disguise would need to work across several sensor bands and would lose value as opposing systems learned to recognize it.

Clothing designed to defeat automated tracking recalls historical paint schemes meant to obscure a ship's course or identity. An adaptable visual disguise might exploit the narrow definitions used by machine vision even when a human observer still recognizes the target. Active LED patterns could change a ship's appearance between sorties. Modern sensors would require deception across more than the visible spectrum. Once a method is observed, an opponent can train its systems to recognize it, forcing camouflage to keep changing.