Journal of Real-Time Image Processing

Journal of Real-Time Image Processing is published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg and is in Zone 4 of Computer Science in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Advanced Neural Network Applications, Advanced Vision and Imaging and Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods, together about 30.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Manuscripts that do not address real-time (algorithmic, hardware, software or implementation) issues do not fall within the theme of JRTIP and are encouraged to be submitted to the Springer Journal of Signal, Image and Video Processing (SIVP) for publication consideration. 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. The journal solicits original contributions in the following areas: Real-time image and video processing algorithms Real-time embedded image/video processing systems Real-time image and video processing hardwa re and architecture including FPGA, DSP, GPU, GPP, ASIC, System-on-Chip (SoC), and System-in-a-Package (SiP) implementations Real-time software optimizations and related design paradigms for image/video processing Real-time hardware/software co-design for image and video processing Real-time image

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC

Editor-in-chief Nasser KehtarnavazPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 6 in mainland China (about 10%); most named United States 16, Mainland China 6, South Korea 4, France 4, Taiwan, China 3 (63 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

4.88LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

4.9Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

7.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.85LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.44LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

27LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

61OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

795OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

6.92OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

6.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

8.04%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

227LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

327,400Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to first decision

2 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Peer review

Double anonymous peer review, Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Country or region

GERMANY

Language

English

Frequency

6 issues per year

Founded

2006

ISSN

1861-8200

Electronic ISSN

1861-8219

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website