Abstract

Pattern recognition consists in finding a correspondence between patterns and their prototypes. Intrinsically, it is a distributed process in terms of goals to be reached, zones to be processed and methods to be applied. In this paper, a multi-agent based self-adaptive pattern recognition framework is proposed to cope with the difficulties in the procedure. Each agent is dedicated to recognize a single kind of pattern and communicate with other agents. The cooperation between them reinforces the object-model correspondence hypothesis of each agent and leads to the self-adaptation of their recognition results in order to reach a consistent and integrated interpretation of the whole image. The experiment result validates this approach especially in the flexibility and expansibility of the system.

Keywords:

Cooperation, multi-agent systems, pattern recognition, self-adaptation,

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