Guest Editors' Introduction: Multimedia Analytics

A workshop at IEEE VisWeek 09 attempted to bring together the visual-analytics and video analysis communities to determine how much synergy there was between the two fields. The active workshop left everyone feeling that the two fields had much to offer each other. This special issue broadens the topic to multimedia analytics to include more researchers in multimedia analysis and visual analytics. The resulting articles reflect the range and quality of research that serves as a foundation for future multimedia analytics research.