diff --git a/docs/source/en/internal/image_processing_utils.mdx b/docs/source/en/internal/image_processing_utils.mdx
index ae4f826517aa..4d5831a12fd6 100644
--- a/docs/source/en/internal/image_processing_utils.mdx
+++ b/docs/source/en/internal/image_processing_utils.mdx
@@ -22,3 +22,8 @@ Most of those are only useful if you are studying the code of the image processo
 [[autodoc]] image_transforms.to_pil_image
 
 [[autodoc]] image_transforms.resize
+
+
+## ImageProcessorMixin
+
+[[autodoc]] image_processing_utils.ImageProcessorMixin
diff --git a/src/transformers/__init__.py b/src/transformers/__init__.py
index db0c2b6dbb9d..dc2a94572fe8 100755
--- a/src/transformers/__init__.py
+++ b/src/transformers/__init__.py
@@ -634,6 +634,7 @@
         name for name in dir(dummy_vision_objects) if not name.startswith("_")
     ]
 else:
+    _import_structure["image_processing_utils"] = ["ImageProcessorMixin"]
     _import_structure["image_transforms"] = ["resize", "to_pil_image"]
     _import_structure["image_utils"] = ["ImageFeatureExtractionMixin"]
     _import_structure["models.beit"].append("BeitFeatureExtractor")
@@ -3370,6 +3371,7 @@
     except OptionalDependencyNotAvailable:
         from .utils.dummy_vision_objects import *
     else:
+        from .image_processing_utils import ImageProcessorMixin
         from .image_transforms import resize, to_pil_image
         from .image_utils import ImageFeatureExtractionMixin
         from .models.beit import BeitFeatureExtractor
diff --git a/src/transformers/image_processing_utils.py b/src/transformers/image_processing_utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..62a6178d1f80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/transformers/image_processing_utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# coding=utf-8
+# Copyright 2022 The HuggingFace Inc. team.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+from .feature_extraction_utils import FeatureExtractionMixin
+from .utils import logging
+
+
+logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)
+
+
+# We use aliasing whilst we phase out the old API. Once feature extractors for vision models
+# are deprecated, ImageProcessor mixin will be implemented. Any shared logic will be abstracted out.
+ImageProcessorMixin = FeatureExtractionMixin
diff --git a/src/transformers/utils/__init__.py b/src/transformers/utils/__init__.py
index 377932e2d490..af8fc6a06801 100644
--- a/src/transformers/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/src/transformers/utils/__init__.py
@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@
 FLAX_WEIGHTS_INDEX_NAME = "flax_model.msgpack.index.json"
 CONFIG_NAME = "config.json"
 FEATURE_EXTRACTOR_NAME = "preprocessor_config.json"
+IMAGE_PROCESSOR_NAME = FEATURE_EXTRACTOR_NAME
 MODEL_CARD_NAME = "modelcard.json"
 
 SENTENCEPIECE_UNDERLINE = "▁"
diff --git a/src/transformers/utils/dummy_vision_objects.py b/src/transformers/utils/dummy_vision_objects.py
index 92a08fb26fb7..359b434253a6 100644
--- a/src/transformers/utils/dummy_vision_objects.py
+++ b/src/transformers/utils/dummy_vision_objects.py
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
 from ..utils import DummyObject, requires_backends
 
 
+class ImageProcessorMixin(metaclass=DummyObject):
+    _backends = ["vision"]
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(self, ["vision"])
+
+
 def resize(*args, **kwargs):
     requires_backends(resize, ["vision"])