Links

Beginners guides

A Beginners Guide to Bitmaps

File formats specifications

Wotsit's format The programmer's file format collection.

digitalpreservation.gov Format Descriptions for Still Images.

Open Source FreeImage competitors

 ImageMagick
 GraphicsMagick
 OpenImageIO

Computer Vision Libraries

 Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK)
 OpenCV
 VLFeat
 VIPS
 VIGRA