Description of a system to detect facial expressions using an agent-based approach is presented. The system utilizes interaction between Matlab-based image filters and a JADEbased agent implementation. The system is demonstrated using a feature recognition example. The system however has a much wider applicability, especially as Matlab is used extensively in other scientific/numerical computing applications. Categories and Subject Descriptors I.2.11 [Artificial Intelligence]: Distributed Artificial Intelligence – Multiagent systems. General Terms Algorithms, Design, Experimentation. Keywords Face expression recognition, Distributed computer vision, Multi-agent systems.