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Besides using dynamic_reconfigure as @dbworth suggested, you might want to use nodelets if you are passing images around in a single machine. That will make communication much faster ("zero-copy", as they say) while maintaining the modularity of nodes. Most of the image pipeline already supports nodelets.

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