Recent advances in real-time image and video enhance-
ment are enabling innovations in a broad range of appli-
cations including biomedicine, intelligent transportation,
driving assistance, consumer electronics, telecommunica-
tion, robotics and surveillance. These innovations encom-
pass complexity-aware algorithms and new hardware–
software (HW–SW) architectures and aims at (1) improved
visualization performance; (2) acceleration of processing
(real-time instead of off-line computation); and (3) com-
plexity reduction to meet demands involving device size,
power consumption, cost of target applications such as
battery-powered mobile/wearable devices, or low-cost
large volume markets.
This special issue presents nine papers covering differ-
ent real-time algorithms and cost-efficient architectures for
several image/video enhancement techniques. The accep-
ted papers are from different international institutions
located in North and South America, Europe and Asia.
