A Concept of Networked Cellular Vision System for Motion Detection Hiroyuki Kawai † and Hisato Kobayashi ‡ † Department of Robotics, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Ishikawa 9218501, JAPAN hiroyuki@neptune.kanazawa-it.ac.jp ‡ Department of Art & Technology, Hosei University, Tokyo 1028160, JAPAN Abstract In this paper, we propose a new concept to process the huge information of networked vision systems. The networked vision systems have potential capability to solve many important problems such as security monitoring of public spaces. But, the information processing of the networked vision system is ”computer-power-consuming task”; it is very difficult to retrieve meaningful information from the data of large size networked vision system. This paper proposes a new simple scheme to process such huge size data, by getting a hint from information processing of human hearing organ and insects’ compound eyes. The proposed scheme does not require super computational power, and the necessary computational power is linearly proportion to the number of vision systems. This paper also shows some basic experiments to confirm the validity of the concept. Index Terms I. I NTRODUCTION The networked vision systems have a potential capability to solve some of our most important scientific and societal problems such as security monitoring for huge public space. Such networked system can acquire huge amount of information, but we face to the serious problems, i.e., how we can handle such huge amount of information and how we can retrieve our necessary intelligence. Even if distributed data processors assist the computational task and reduce the network traffic; it might be very difficult for the central processor to rebuild and to analyze the information of the whole space from the information gotten by decentralized processing [1].