this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the second international workshop on multimedia databases and image communication, mdic 2001, held in amalfi, italy, in september 2001.the 16 revised full papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. the papers are organised in topical sections on image and visual computing applications, multimedia technology, image and visual information querying and browsing, and video indexing and communication.