Object recognition

An object recognition system for recognising one or more objects within an environment, the system including:

• a) one or more tags, each tag being associated with a respective object in use, and each tag including:
• i) a tag memory configured to store an object model, the object model being a computational model indicative of a relationship between the respective object and a shape encoding layer;
• ii) a tag transceiver;
• and,
• iii) a tag processing device configured to cause the tag transceiver to transmit the object model;
• b) a sensing system including:
• i) a sensing device configured to sense the environment;
• ii) a sensing system memory configured to store a sensing device model, the sensing device model being a computational model indicative of a relationship between sensor data captured using the sensing device and the shape encoding layer;
• iii) a sensing system transceiver;
• iv) one or more sensing system processing devices configured to:
• (1) receive one or more object models from the transceiver;
• (2) retrieve the sensing device model from the sensing system memory;
• (3) acquire sensor data indicative of the environment from the sensing device;
• and,
• (4) analyse the sensor data using the sensing device model and the one or more object models to thereby recognise the one or more objects within the environment.