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If your are running your Driver Station on a relatively new laptop, and not the Classmate, you have more than enough processing power available to do your image processing there. The image processing routines included with LabVIEW are impressively efficient and powerful. I actually use them in my professional life, and have found them to be among the fastest such routines available. You can then send whatever computed values you need back to the robot via a UDP connection.