Cooperative Vision in a Multi-Agent Architecture

We present the concept of cooperative vision and its application to a multi-agent system with special attention to the integration of vision. Cooperative vision can be described as a type of distributed vision, where several agents working in a shared environment are involved. The object recognition task was distributed to several agents in order to demonstrate the concept of cooperative vision. This enables, on the one hand, a verification of objects by several agents and, on the other hand, a localization of spatial positions of other agents. A Bayesian approach is used for the combination of conclusions of several agents. Experiments done so far show significant results with regard to both tasks.