[AlexanderTheOK]

I personally believe that running vision on the driver station laptop is simply the best way to go. Out of all 4 years I've done it I have tried:

a,) running vision on the crio in java (2012)
b,) LabVIEW on the driver station (2013)
c,) opencv on an onboard processor (2014)
d,) pcl with a kinect and onboard processor (2015)

While the most efficient (in terms of ability to do vision processing) methods have been d followed by c, the most efficient method in terms of programmers time used has by far been b.

It's easy to set up, and NI has an extremely easy to use library that will suffice for anything frc will throw at you.

For personal development, go ahead by all means spend more time making an advanced system, but generally the most useful method is the one already built in.