The main goal of this project is to develop a new system for information fusion in image understanding which can deal with selection and combination of uncertain visual information. The system is active in the sense that at each step of processing it can select and request the most promising next source of information. Thus, it will be a powerful new mechanism for the efficient control of an image understanding system. The upper half of the diagram corresponds to the real world situation, the lower half to its mapping in the computer. Boxes denote representations at differnt levels of abstraction, ellipses denote processes.
Solid arrows show dataflow, dashed ones the flow of control.