I would like to thank Dr. Ted Baker for his help and encouragement during past seven months. I especially would like to thank Dr. Ted Giering for valuable guidance throughout this project, without which this work would not have been possible. His knowledge of Ada language and considerable experience in image processing systems in real-time often came to the rescue. In addition, I would like to thank fellow graduate student Pratit Santiprabhob for help in solving timing problems. I would also like to thank Dr. Hruska and Dr. Whalley for serving on my comittee. Finally, I wish to thank God for giving me such a nice environment that made my project possible.