摘要
It is our great pleasure to announce the launch of a new journal,Visual Informatics,which will publish original articles and survey papers on theories and algorithms for visual information modeling,synthesis and processing.Visual information is the major channel for human and ma-chines to perceive the surrounding world,whereas images,videos,graphics and animations are the most popular visual media.Be-sides real-time generation and transmission of visual information,efficient acquisition and perception of the features and semantics behind visual information have long been the grand challenges of multiple areas in computer science.
