Animal camouflage has long been used to illustrate the power of natural selection, and
provides an excellent testbed for investigating the trade‐offs affecting the adaptive value of …

Smart dielectric materials with bioinspired and autonomous functions are expected to be
designed and fabricated for next-generation electrical insulation. Similar to organisms, such …

Prey animals typically try to avoid being detected and/or advertise to would-be predators that
they should be avoided. Both anti-predator strategies primarily rely on colour to succeed, but …

Sleep is ubiquitous in the animal kingdom and yet displays considerable variation in its
extent and form in the wild. Ecological factors, such as predation, competition, and …

This paper focuses on camouflaged object detection (COD), which is a task to detect objects
hidden in the background. Most of the current COD models aim to highlight the target object …

Substantial progress has been made in the past 15 years regarding how prey use a variety
of visual camouflage types to exploit both predator visual processing and cognition …

Disruptive markings are common in animal patterns and can provide camouflage benefits by
concealing the body's true edges and/or by breaking the surface of the body into multiple …

Edge enhancement, as an important part of image processing, has played an essential role
in amplitude-contrast and phase-contrast object imaging. The edge enhancement of three …

The dorsal surfaces of many taxonomic groups often feature repetitive pattern elements
consisting of stripes, spots, or bands. Here, we investigate how distinct categories of …

Tunable edge enhancement can selectively emphasize the edge features of objects. We
demonstrate a higher-order spiral Fresnel incoherent correlation holography system to …