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The objective of a perceptual-inspired imaging system is to explore consumer-focused hardware and software for applications such as recognition, tracking, visualization, and augmented reality. Perceptual approaches have been widely used in many areas of multimedia and visual information processing. As a multimedia system produces sounds, images, and videos that are ultimately perceived by a human, it is essential to account for how the human visual system (HVS) processes this information. The HVS is complex, exhibiting many nonlinearities as well as feedback and is only partially understood. While this poses a challenge, it can also be seen as an opportunity that can be exploited in multimedia systems with computational science and aesthetics. These systems bridge the analytic and synthetic by integrating aspects of computer science, psychology, emotional engineering, and cognitive science. It can also include fine, applied, and media arts. The goal of this special issue is to explore real-time models, algorithms, and technologies needed to enable perceptual-inspired multimedia systems. This is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research related to ‘‘Real-Time Perceptual-inspired Imaging Systems with Computational Science and Aesthetics’’ that can invoke human emotional responses. In the following section, we present a brief overview of each manuscript and then conclude this guest editorial.