Visual informatics is a field of interest not just among the information technology and
computer science community but also other related fields such as engineering me- cal and
health informatics and education starting in the early 1990s. Recently the field is gaining
more attention from researchers and industry. It has become a mul- disciplinary and
trans-disciplinary field related to research areas such as computer vision visualization
information visualization real-time image processing medical image processing image
information retrieval virtual reality augmented reality - pressive visual mathematics 3D
graphics multimedia-fusion visual data mining visual ontology as well as services and
visual culture. Various efforts has been - vested in different research but operationally
many of these systems are not pro- nent in the mass market and thus knowledge and research on
these phenomena within the mentioned areas need to be shared and disseminated. It is for this
reason that the Visual Informatics Research Group from Universiti - bangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
decided to spearhead this initiative to bring together experts in this very diversified but
important research area so that more concerted efforts can be undertaken not just within the
visual informatics community in Malaysia but from other parts of the world namely Asia
Europe Oceania and USA. This first International Visual Informatics Conference (IVIC 2009)
was conducted collaboratively by the visual informatics research community from the various
public and private institutions of higher learning in Malaysia and hosted by UKM.
