Real-time image processing techniques are used in many automation applications like in autonomous vehicle (AV) and robot control. In this paper, an image processing system for real-time video signal processing is studied, using DSK 6713 kit from Texas Instruments. The DSK kit is used to acquire frames from a camera module through HPI port and store them into external SDRAM memory. The DSP is used to extract the frames from memory through EMIF bus, and to run complex processing algorithms on 1D and 2D signals, like spectral analysis and artificial intelligence. Studying the system performances, three possible bottlenecks were identified and analyzed regarding image processing algorithms.