PRISMIN

The PRISMIN (Processing and transfeR of Interaction States and Mappings through Image-based eNcoding) framework, allows to encode users' interaction states and mappings into compact and lightweight images, easily manipulable and transferable between peers in networked contexts. The framework - designed and developed by B. Fanini (CNR ISPC) - is based on Node.js: it can be used to develop and deploy dedicated services targeting specific scenarios and research infrastructures.

PRISMIN offers Interaction Prisms (QPrism class) that can be used to refract interaction states and bake them into 2D images (atlases), as well as runtime accessories like Interaction Volumes (QVolume class) that can be arranged and deployed in virtual 3D scenes to capture or influence user interactions within specific areas.

The image-based approach offers GPU-friendly encoding/decoding routines and easy implementations for WebGL shaders to visualize and inspect captured data targeting networked visual/immersive analytics. Furthermore, different atlas layouts allows direct manipulation on GPU and offline processing using common 2D image algorithms to extract, combine or compare user interactions.

Getting started

First install/update core library modules, from root folder:

npm install

Then, test out different built-in tools (see specific READMEs):

cd tools/<toolname>/

Publications

Here are a few references (links and bibtex) to cite the research project:

B. Fanini, L. Cinque (2020) Encoding, Exchange and Manipulation of Captured Immersive VR Sessions for Learning Environments: the PRISMIN Framework. Applied Sciences 2020, 10, 2026. Special Issue "Emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies for Learning". https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/6/2026

@article{fanini2020prismin,
  title={Encoding, Exchange and Manipulation of Captured Immersive VR Sessions for Learning Environments: the PRISMIN Framework},
  author={Fanini, Bruno and Cinque, Luigi},
  journal={Applied Sciences},
  volume={10},
  number={6},
  pages={2026},
  year={2020},
  publisher={Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute}
}

B. Fanini, L. Cinque (2019). Encoding immersive sessions for online, interactive VR analytics. Virtual Reality (Springer), 1-16. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10055-019-00405-w

@article{fanini2019vire,
    title={Encoding immersive sessions for online, interactive VR analytics},
    journal={Virtual Reality},
    author={Fanini, Bruno and Cinque, Luigi},
    doi={10.1007/s10055-019-00405-w},
    url={http://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-019-00405-w},
    issn={1359-4338},
    year={2019}
}

B. Fanini, L. Cinque (2019, July). An Image-Based Encoding to Record and Track Immersive VR Sessions. In International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (pp. 299-310). Springer, Cham. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-24296-1_25

@inproceedings{fanini2019image,
    title={An Image-Based Encoding to Record and Track Immersive VR Sessions},
    author={Fanini, Bruno and Cinque, Luigi},
    booktitle={International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications},
    pages={299--310},
    year={2019},
    organization={Springer}
}