Driving Vision Systems by Communication

In this paper we propose our new multi-agent system architecture dedicated to build distributed computer vi-sion systems. This architecture incorporates a communi-cation language which provides a great degree of flexibil-ity: firstly, the language permits the construction of flexi-ble and self-organizing vision systems; secondly, it is ca-pable of expressing complex facts and tasks; thirdly, it is simple, i.e. human readable and writable; and lastly, the messages provided by the communication language can be interpreted efficiently. We describe in detail the basic con-cepts of the multi-agent system architecture including the communication language as well as the agent architecture and the interaction strategy. As a testbed for the proposed architecture we have modelled an object recognition system as a society of autonomous agents which organize them-selves according to a given recognition task by employing communication. 1