Introduction of Real‐time Image Processing

Abstract

Image processing is an enabling technology for a wide range of applications including remote sensing, security, image data sets, digital television, robotics and medical imaging, etc. The goal of this technology can be divided into three levels: low, medium and high. Real-time image processing is the subfield of image processing focused on producing and analyzing images in real time. Generally, a real-time system has the following three interpretations within different senses. Real-time image processing systems involve processing vast amounts of image data in a timely manner for the purpose of extracting useful information, which could mean anything from obtaining an enhanced image to intelligent scene analysis. Digital images and video are essentially multidimensional signals and are thus quite data intensive, requiring a significant amount of computation and memory resources for their processing.