Guest editorial: Special issue on algorithms and architectures for real-time image and video enhancement (Editorial)

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.