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.