Journal of Real-Time Image Processing

期刊简介：Due to rapid advancements in integrated circuit technology, the rich theoretical results that have been developed by the image and video processing research community are now being increasingly applied in practical systems to solve real-world image and video processing problems. Such systems involve constraints placed not only on their size, cost, and power consumption, but also on the timeliness of the image data processed.Examples of such systems are mobile phones, digital still/video/cell-phone cameras, portable media players, personal digital assistants, high-definition television, video surveillance systems, industrial visual inspection systems, medical imaging devices, vision-guided autonomous robots, spectral imaging systems, and many other real-time embedded systems. In these real-time systems, strict timing requirements demand that results are available within a certain interval of time as imposed by the application.It is often the case that an image processing algorithm is developed and proven theoretically sound, presumably with a specific application in mind, but its practical applications and the detailed steps, methodology, and trade-off analysis required to achieve its real-time performance are not fully explored, leaving these critical and usually non-trivial issues for those wishing to employ the algorithm in a real-time system.The Journal of Real-Time Image Processing is intended to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of image processing, serving the greater community of researchers, practicing engineers, and industrial professionals who deal with designing, implementing or utilizing image processing systems which must satisfy real-time design constraints.

【译文】由于集成电路技术的快速发展，图像和视频处理研究社区已经开发出的丰富理论成果现在越来越多地应用于实际系统中，以解决现实世界的图像和视频处理问题。这些系统不仅对它们的尺寸、成本和功耗有约束，还对处理图像数据的及时性有要求。这类系统的例子包括移动电话、数字静止/视频/手机相机、便携式媒体播放器、个人数字助理、高清电视、视频监控系统、工业视觉检测系统、医学成像设备、视觉引导的自主机器人、光谱成像系统以及许多其他实时嵌入式系统。在这些实时系统中，严格的定时要求需要结果在应用规定的某个时间间隔内可用。通常情况下，一个图像处理算法被开发并证明在理论上合理，可能针对特定的应用，但其实际应用以及实现其实时性能所需的详细步骤、方法和权衡分析并没有得到充分探索，这些关键且通常非平凡的议题留给了那些希望在实时系统中使用该算法的人。