This paper describes a hardwarearchitecture for real-time image component labelingand the computation of image component featuredescriptors. These descriptors are object relatedproperties used to describe each image component.Embedded machine vision systems demand a robustperformance, power efficiency as well as minimumarea utilization, depending on the deployedapplication. In the proposed architecture, the hardwaremodules for component labeling and featurecalculation run in parallel. A CMOS image sensor(MT9V032), operating at a maximum clock frequencyof 27MHz, was used to capture the images. Thearchitecture was synthesized and implemented on aXilinx Spartan-6 FPGA. The developed architecture iscapable of processing 390 video frames per second ofsize 640x480 pixels. Dynamic power consumption is13mW at 86 frames per second.