Special track on Multimedia and Visualization track: editorial message

The MultiMedia and Visualization (MMV) track has been a popular track because of its appeal for the current trends in daily life applications. Visualization is the key to comprehending the continuously changing complex phenomena around us. Multimedia combines information from local and remote sources. The users may view this information on on-demand basis. There are many issues associated with this: data manipulation, display, motion, security etc. This track attracts investigators from pure research to applications in wide variety of areas. Some of the papers included were: Consistency checking and temporal relations, Digital Watermarking, Digital Ink, Multimedia Information Representation, Rule based visualization techniques, Scientific Visualization with genetic algorithms, Security, Video indexing, Video on Demand, Volume Visualization, Visualization techniques for Data mining and surface modeling.