Presentation of AAA method used in hardware implementation for real time imaging (DSP and/or FPGA implementation, Syndex) Presentation of ASIC developped for edge detection (Roberts, Canny-Deriche) or Image segmentation (Classification ASIC) Presentation of the "Ardoise" Project, using possibilities to dynamically reconfigure the FPGAs. Discussion about current work on "Smart Sensors", implementing for example face detection and recogntion on single chip using RBF.