This paper presents an application of vision-based object recognition to create in mobile robots. A system is developed which makes use of the scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) algorithm to recognize a leader robot or human. The follower robot then uses PID control to track the leader's movements while maintaining a fixed following distance. These experiments proved the SIFT algorithm as a viable method of creating leader/follower behavior, and can serve as a proof of concept for more complex convoying operations using machine-vision based leader detection.