In the last few years, the progress in the design of embedded systems has been driven by the continuous development of new semiconductor devices offering more functionality than previous generations. Especially image processing applications could profit from this trend, because they are typically computationally intensive. Consequently, modern embedded devices permit the real-time execution of complex applications that some years ago would have been challenging even for huge workstations. Due to this fact, new application domains emerged ranging from digital acquisition, manipulation, and projection of cinematographic movies, over new medical diagnosis technologies, to hundreds of powerful consumer devices handling various multi-media content including images, sound, or video.