The Second Edition of the bestselling Handbook of Computer Vision Algo rithms in Image Algebra continues to provide an outstanding introducti on to Image Algebra. It describes more than 80 fundamental computer vi sion techniques and introduces the portable iac++ library, which suppo rts image algebra programming in the C++ language. Revisions to the fi rst edition include two new chapters on compression techniques and on geometric manipulation/ spatial transformation and the addition of exe rcises to each chapter.

A number of di?erent instruments for design can be uni?ed in the context of lattice theory towards cross-fertilization By"latticetheory" 1]wemean, equivalently, eitherapartialordering relation 2,3]ora couple of binary algebraic operations 3, 4]. There is a growing interest in computational intelligence based on lattice theory. A number of researchers are currently active developing lattice theory based models and techniques in engineering, computer and information s- ences, applied mathematics, and other scienti?c endeavours. Some of these models and techniques are presented here. However,...