ANTS, INTELLIGENT VISION IN URBAN TRAFFIC

In this paper, the authors describe ANTS (Agent NeTwork System) a multi-agent system (MAS) designed as a software architecture for controlling multiple software modules. ANTS offers components for many purposes. In this paper, ANTS is used as a multi-agent system for intelligent vision control, allowing an urban traffic assistant (UTA) to perform stop-and-go driving. ANTS administrates the computer vision, vehicle control, and driver interface tasks. ANTS is used to integrate vision algorithms for different image understanding tasks such as stereo based object detection, lane detection, pedestrian recognition, and traffic signal recognition. This is performed by selecting and controlling the algorithms and focusing the resources on particular tasks for specific situations.