diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/kimi_k25.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/kimi_k25.py
index 7321b913605..e2b74744b41 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/kimi_k25.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/kimi_k25.py
@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors
 from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.kimi_k25 import KimiK25Config
 from vllm.transformers_utils.processor import cached_get_image_processor
 from vllm.transformers_utils.processors.kimi_k25 import KimiK25Processor
+from vllm.transformers_utils.processors.kimi_k25_vision_fused import (
+    KimiK25FusedVisionProcessor,
+)
+from vllm.utils.import_utils import is_numba_available
 from vllm.utils.tensor_schema import TensorSchema, TensorShape
 
 from .utils import (
@@ -108,10 +112,16 @@ class KimiK25ProcessingInfo(BaseProcessingInfo):
         self.hf_config = hf_config = self.get_hf_config()
 
         tokenizer = self.get_tokenizer()
+        processor_cls = KimiK25FusedVisionProcessor if is_numba_available() else None
+        logger.info_once(
+            "Using %s image preprocessing for Kimi-K2.5/K2.6 vision chunks.",
+            "fused CPU" if processor_cls is not None else "remote HF",
+        )
         image_processor = cached_get_image_processor(
             self.ctx.model_config.model,
             revision=self.ctx.model_config.revision,
             trust_remote_code=self.ctx.model_config.trust_remote_code,
+            processor_cls_overrides=processor_cls,
         )
 
         # Resolve token ID from the tokenizer because transformers v5
diff --git a/vllm/transformers_utils/processor.py b/vllm/transformers_utils/processor.py
index fa4c558a739..aa33faed916 100644
--- a/vllm/transformers_utils/processor.py
+++ b/vllm/transformers_utils/processor.py
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ _transformers_v4_compatibility_import()
 _transformers_v4_compatibility_init()
 
 _P = TypeVar("_P", bound=ProcessorMixin, default=ProcessorMixin)
+_I = TypeVar("_I", bound=BaseImageProcessor, default=BaseImageProcessor)
 _V = TypeVar("_V", bound=BaseVideoProcessor, default=BaseVideoProcessor)
 
 
@@ -440,12 +441,14 @@ def get_image_processor(
     *args: Any,
     revision: str | None = None,
     trust_remote_code: bool = False,
+    processor_cls_overrides: type[_I] | None = None,
     **kwargs: Any,
 ):
     """Load an image processor for the given model name via HuggingFace."""
     try:
         processor_name = convert_model_repo_to_path(processor_name)
-        processor = AutoImageProcessor.from_pretrained(
+        processor_cls = processor_cls_overrides or AutoImageProcessor
+        processor = processor_cls.from_pretrained(
             processor_name,
             *args,
             revision=revision,
diff --git a/vllm/transformers_utils/processors/kimi_k25_vision_fused.py b/vllm/transformers_utils/processors/kimi_k25_vision_fused.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..63907898175
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vllm/transformers_utils/processors/kimi_k25_vision_fused.py
@@ -0,0 +1,352 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+"""Optimized CPU image processor for Kimi-K2.5/K2.6 vision chunks."""
+
+import io
+import json
+import math
+from typing import Any
+
+import numpy as np
+import pybase64 as base64
+import torch
+from PIL import Image
+from transformers.image_processing_utils import BaseImageProcessor, BatchFeature
+from transformers.utils import TensorType
+
+from vllm.utils.import_utils import is_numba_available
+from vllm.utils.jit_monitor import numba_workqueue_threading_layer
+
+if is_numba_available():
+    from numba import njit, prange
+
+    @njit(parallel=True, cache=True)
+    def _write_fused_patches(
+        frames: np.ndarray,
+        out: np.ndarray,
+        out_offset: int,
+        new_h: int,
+        new_w: int,
+        padded_h: int,
+        padded_w: int,
+        patch_size: int,
+        normalize_lut: np.ndarray,
+    ) -> None:
+        # frames: [T, new_h, new_w, 3] uint8, without padding.
+        # out: [total_patches, 3, patch_size, patch_size] float32.
+        t_size = frames.shape[0]
+        patch_h = padded_h // patch_size
+        patch_w = padded_w // patch_size
+        total = t_size * padded_h * padded_w * 3
+        hwc = padded_h * padded_w * 3
+        wc = padded_w * 3
+
+        for linear in prange(total):
+            t = linear // hwc
+            rem = linear - t * hwc
+            y = rem // wc
+            rem = rem - y * wc
+            x = rem // 3
+            c = rem - x * 3
+
+            value = frames[t, y, x, c] if y < new_h and x < new_w else 0
+
+            patch_idx = (
+                out_offset
+                + t * patch_h * patch_w
+                + (y // patch_size) * patch_w
+                + (x // patch_size)
+            )
+            out[patch_idx, c, y % patch_size, x % patch_size] = normalize_lut[value, c]
+
+else:
+
+    def _write_fused_patches(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
+        raise RuntimeError("numba is required for fused Kimi image preprocessing")
+
+
+def navit_resize_image(
+    width: int,
+    height: int,
+    patch_size: int,
+    merge_kernel_size: int,
+    in_patch_limit: int,
+    patch_limit_on_one_side: int,
+    fixed_output_tokens: int | None,
+) -> dict[str, int]:
+    s1 = math.sqrt(
+        in_patch_limit
+        / (max(1.0, width // patch_size) * max(1.0, height // patch_size))
+    )
+    s2 = patch_limit_on_one_side * patch_size / width
+    s3 = patch_limit_on_one_side * patch_size / height
+    scale = min(1.0, s1, s2, s3)
+    new_w = min(max(1, int(width * scale)), patch_limit_on_one_side * patch_size)
+    new_h = min(max(1, int(height * scale)), patch_limit_on_one_side * patch_size)
+
+    factor = merge_kernel_size * patch_size
+    pad_height = (factor - new_h % factor) % factor
+    pad_width = (factor - new_w % factor) % factor
+
+    if fixed_output_tokens is not None:
+        num_tokens = fixed_output_tokens
+    else:
+        token_height = (new_h + pad_height) // factor
+        token_width = (new_w + pad_width) // factor
+        num_tokens = token_height * token_width
+
+    return {
+        "num_tokens": num_tokens,
+        "new_width": new_w,
+        "new_height": new_h,
+        "pad_width": pad_width,
+        "pad_height": pad_height,
+        "sampled_nframes": 1,
+    }
+
+
+def navit_resize_video(
+    width: int,
+    height: int,
+    nframes: int,
+    avg_fps: float,
+    sample_fps: float,
+    patch_size: int,
+    merge_kernel_size: int,
+    in_patch_limit_each_frame: int,
+    patch_limit_on_one_side: int,
+    in_patch_limit_total: int | None,
+    max_num_frames_each_video: int | None,
+    fixed_output_tokens_each_frame: int | None,
+) -> dict[str, int]:
+    sample_fps = min(sample_fps, avg_fps)
+    sampled_nframes = max(round(nframes * sample_fps / avg_fps), 1)
+    if max_num_frames_each_video is not None:
+        sampled_nframes = min(sampled_nframes, max_num_frames_each_video)
+
+    if in_patch_limit_total is not None:
+        in_patch_limit_each_frame = min(
+            round(in_patch_limit_total / sampled_nframes),
+            in_patch_limit_each_frame,
+        )
+
+    ret = navit_resize_image(
+        width,
+        height,
+        patch_size,
+        merge_kernel_size,
+        in_patch_limit_each_frame,
+        patch_limit_on_one_side,
+        fixed_output_tokens_each_frame,
+    )
+    ret["sampled_nframes"] = sampled_nframes
+    return ret
+
+
+def _to_pil(data: Any) -> Image.Image:
+    if hasattr(data, "media") and hasattr(data, "original_bytes"):
+        data = data.media
+    if isinstance(data, Image.Image):
+        return data if data.mode == "RGB" else data.convert("RGB")
+    if isinstance(data, str):
+        if data.startswith("data:"):
+            raw_base64 = data.split(",", 1)[1]
+            return Image.open(io.BytesIO(base64.b64decode(raw_base64))).convert("RGB")
+        return Image.open(data).convert("RGB")
+    if isinstance(data, bytes):
+        return Image.open(io.BytesIO(data)).convert("RGB")
+    raise ValueError(f"Unsupported data type: {type(data)}")
+
+
+def _ensure_media_type(media: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if media["type"] == "image":
+        media["image"] = _to_pil(media["image"])
+        return media
+    if media["type"] == "video_chunk":
+        media["video_chunk"] = [_to_pil(frame) for frame in media["video_chunk"]]
+        return media
+    raise ValueError(f"Unsupported media type: {media['type']}")
+
+
+class KimiK25FusedVisionProcessor(BaseImageProcessor):
+    model_type = "kimi_k25"
+
+    def __init__(self, media_proc_cfg: dict[str, Any], **kwargs: Any) -> None:
+        super().__init__(**kwargs)
+        media_proc_cfg = dict(media_proc_cfg)
+        merge_kernel_size = media_proc_cfg["merge_kernel_size"]
+        if isinstance(merge_kernel_size, (list, tuple)):
+            media_proc_cfg["merge_kernel_size"] = int(merge_kernel_size[0])
+        self.media_proc_cfg = media_proc_cfg
+        self.num_frames_per_chunk = media_proc_cfg["temporal_merge_kernel_size"]
+        values = np.arange(256, dtype=np.float32)[:, None]
+        image_mean = np.asarray(media_proc_cfg["image_mean"], dtype=np.float32)
+        image_std_inv = 1.0 / np.asarray(media_proc_cfg["image_std"], dtype=np.float32)
+        self.normalize_lut = (values / 255.0 - image_mean[None, :]) * image_std_inv[
+            None, :
+        ]
+
+    def media_tokens_calculator(self, media: dict[str, Any]) -> int:
+        media = _ensure_media_type(media)
+        ret = self.get_resize_config(media)
+        return ret["num_tokens"]
+
+    def get_resize_config(self, media_input: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, int]:
+        if media_input["type"] == "image":
+            width, height = media_input["image"].size
+            return navit_resize_image(
+                width,
+                height,
+                self.media_proc_cfg["patch_size"],
+                self.media_proc_cfg["merge_kernel_size"],
+                self.media_proc_cfg["in_patch_limit"],
+                self.media_proc_cfg["patch_limit_on_one_side"],
+                self.media_proc_cfg["fixed_output_tokens"],
+            )
+
+        if media_input["type"] == "video_chunk":
+            frame = media_input["video_chunk"][0]
+            width, height = frame.size
+            num_frames = len(media_input["video_chunk"])
+            in_patch_limit_each_frame = self.media_proc_cfg["in_patch_limit_each_frame"]
+            if in_patch_limit_each_frame is None:
+                in_patch_limit_each_frame = self.media_proc_cfg["in_patch_limit"]
+
+            return navit_resize_video(
+                width,
+                height,
+                num_frames,
+                1.0,
+                math.inf,
+                self.media_proc_cfg["patch_size"],
+                self.media_proc_cfg["merge_kernel_size"],
+                in_patch_limit_each_frame,
+                self.media_proc_cfg["patch_limit_on_one_side"],
+                self.media_proc_cfg["in_patch_limit_video"],
+                None,
+                self.media_proc_cfg["fixed_output_tokens"],
+            )
+
+        raise ValueError(f"Unsupported type: {media_input['type']}")
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def resize_image(image: Image.Image, new_width: int, new_height: int) -> np.ndarray:
+        image = image.resize((new_width, new_height), resample=Image.Resampling.BICUBIC)
+        return np.asarray(image)
+
+    def preprocess(
+        self,
+        medias: list[dict[str, Any]],
+        return_tensors: str | TensorType | None = None,
+    ) -> BatchFeature:
+        if not isinstance(medias, list):
+            medias = [medias]
+        if not medias:
+            return BatchFeature(data={}, tensor_type=return_tensors)
+
+        if njit is None:
+            raise RuntimeError("numba is required for fused Kimi image preprocessing")
+
+        patch_size = int(self.media_proc_cfg["patch_size"])
+        prepared = []
+        grid_thws_np = np.empty((len(medias), 3), dtype=np.int64)
+        total_patches = 0
+
+        for idx, item in enumerate(medias):
+            item = _ensure_media_type(item)
+            resize_config = self.get_resize_config(item)
+            new_width = resize_config["new_width"]
+            new_height = resize_config["new_height"]
+            pad_width = resize_config["pad_width"]
+            pad_height = resize_config["pad_height"]
+            padded_width = new_width + pad_width
+            padded_height = new_height + pad_height
+
+            if item["type"] == "image":
+                image_np = self.resize_image(item["image"], new_width, new_height)
+                frames = image_np[np.newaxis, ...]
+            elif item["type"] == "video_chunk":
+                frames = np.stack(
+                    [
+                        self.resize_image(frame, new_width, new_height)
+                        for frame in item["video_chunk"]
+                    ],
+                    axis=0,
+                )
+            else:
+                raise ValueError(f"Unsupported type: {item['type']}")
+
+            t_size = frames.shape[0]
+            grid_h = padded_height // patch_size
+            grid_w = padded_width // patch_size
+            grid_thws_np[idx, 0] = t_size
+            grid_thws_np[idx, 1] = grid_h
+            grid_thws_np[idx, 2] = grid_w
+
+            num_patches = t_size * grid_h * grid_w
+            prepared.append(
+                (
+                    frames,
+                    new_height,
+                    new_width,
+                    padded_height,
+                    padded_width,
+                    num_patches,
+                )
+            )
+            total_patches += num_patches
+
+        pixel_values_np = np.empty(
+            (total_patches, 3, patch_size, patch_size), dtype=np.float32
+        )
+        out_offset = 0
+        with numba_workqueue_threading_layer():
+            for (
+                frames,
+                new_height,
+                new_width,
+                padded_height,
+                padded_width,
+                num_patches,
+            ) in prepared:
+                _write_fused_patches(
+                    frames,
+                    pixel_values_np,
+                    out_offset,
+                    new_height,
+                    new_width,
+                    padded_height,
+                    padded_width,
+                    patch_size,
+                    self.normalize_lut,
+                )
+                out_offset += num_patches
+
+        data = {
+            "pixel_values": torch.from_numpy(pixel_values_np),
+            "grid_thws": torch.from_numpy(grid_thws_np),
+        }
+        return BatchFeature(data=data, tensor_type=return_tensors)
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return f"KimiK25FusedVisionProcessor(media_proc_cfg={self.media_proc_cfg})"
+
+    def to_dict(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        output = super().to_dict()
+        output["media_proc_cfg"] = self.media_proc_cfg
+        if "media_processor" in output:
+            del output["media_processor"]
+        return output
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_dict(cls, config_dict: dict[str, Any], **kwargs):
+        config = config_dict.copy()
+        media_proc_cfg = config.pop("media_proc_cfg", {})
+        return cls(media_proc_cfg=media_proc_cfg, **config, **kwargs)
+
+    def to_json_string(self):
+        dictionary = self.to_dict()
+        for key, value in dictionary.items():
+            if hasattr(value, "tolist"):
+                dictionary[key] = value.tolist()
+        return json.dumps(dictionary, indent=2, sort_keys=True) + "\n"
diff --git a/vllm/utils/import_utils.py b/vllm/utils/import_utils.py
index 043798a584b..78dcde6f061 100644
--- a/vllm/utils/import_utils.py
+++ b/vllm/utils/import_utils.py
@@ -487,6 +487,11 @@ def has_nixl_ep() -> bool:
     return _has_module("nixl_ep")
 
 
+def is_numba_available() -> bool:
+    """Whether the optional `numba` package is available."""
+    return _has_module("numba")
+
+
 def has_triton_kernels() -> bool:
     """Whether the optional `triton_kernels` package is available."""
     is_available = _has_module("triton_kernels") or _has_module(
diff --git a/vllm/utils/jit_monitor.py b/vllm/utils/jit_monitor.py
index 4565ffdae06..7ba8ecde653 100644
--- a/vllm/utils/jit_monitor.py
+++ b/vllm/utils/jit_monitor.py
@@ -20,9 +20,10 @@ Currently monitors:
   (via ``knobs.runtime.jit_post_compile_hook``)
 """
 
+import contextlib
 import functools
 import os
-from collections.abc import Mapping
+from collections.abc import Iterator, Mapping
 from typing import Literal
 
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
@@ -287,3 +288,32 @@ def _setup_cutedsl_jit_hook() -> None:
 
     cute.compile = _compile_with_monitor
     _cutedsl_hook_installed = True
+
+
+@contextlib.contextmanager
+def numba_workqueue_threading_layer() -> Iterator[None]:
+    """Force numba's fork-safe `workqueue` threading layer for this block.
+
+    GNU OpenMP (numba's default `omp` threading layer) aborts the process
+    if a forked child re-enters an OpenMP-active runtime. vLLM forks the
+    EngineCore subprocess from a process that may already have launched
+    numba's parallel accelerator, so the first call to any
+    `@njit(parallel=True)` function must happen under `workqueue` instead.
+    The threading layer choice is sticky for the life of the process once
+    launched, so restoring the config on exit does not undo the effect.
+    """
+    import numba
+
+    key = "NUMBA_THREADING_LAYER"
+    previous_env = os.environ.get(key)
+    previous_config = numba.config.THREADING_LAYER
+    os.environ[key] = "workqueue"
+    numba.config.THREADING_LAYER = "workqueue"
+    try:
+        yield
+    finally:
+        if previous_env is None:
+            os.environ.pop(key, None)
+        else:
+            os.environ[key] = previous_env
+        numba.config.THREADING_LAYER = previous_config