MRI: Acquisition of PI2, a CAVE2-Inspired Display for Discovery Science, Creativity, and Education

MRI：收购 PI2，这是一款受 CAVE2 启发的显示器，用于发现科学、创造力和教育

• 批准号: 1531491
• 负责人: Donald Engel
• 金额: $ 36万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland Baltimore County
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1531491&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; PI2; CAVE2; Inspired

A hybrid-reality environment, named PI2, is expected to become an integral and vital part of a long-term vision for complex data analysis at this institution, in effect, a human-computer symbiosis in which humans guide computers to identify features of potential interest that the computer then locates and displays. Developing this vision requires advances in multiple areas, including semi-automatic feature detection, visual representations, and interaction, where traditional display modalities limit what can be displayed and perceived. Moreover, the instrument also facilitates broad interdisciplinary research and provides an innovative teaching and research environment for a diverse student population. It contributes to train future generations of researchers in state-of-the-art interactive visual computing for data analysis and enables broader activities and courses and expands research to outreach new applications (e.g., digital humanity for the American Indian population by working with the Smithsonian Museums). Expectations include:- Advancing multiple avenues of creative inquiry currently blocked or severely restricted will advance rapidly. (The instrument encourages visual thinking among researchers in sciences, healthcare, biomedicine, national security, humanities, and education); - Establishing appropriate levels of technologies needed for different classes of knowledge discovery analysis; and- Assembling a set of research projects to investigate the use of the instrument with the expectation of creating a novel, demonstrably useful, rich, and expressive set of techniques for many cyber-physical and cyber-human systems. PI2, a hybrid-reality environment, aims to support research in interactive computing and digital humanities. The omni-stereo and mono-modalities of the instrument breaks the traditional barriers between virtual reality (VR) and tiled wall displays. The ability of PI2 to synthesize, capture, create, and analyze visual information in unprecedented detail can transform the way analysts interact with visual information. Leveraging many important characteristics: immersion, hybrid reality, high resolution, large field of view, large space and size, body-centric human-computer interaction, and support for heterogeneous data fusion, it benefits multiple projects in research areas (e.g., brain connectome, woodland ecology, interpersonal experiences, biomedicine, universal access, engineering physics, simulations, systems biology, education, digital humanities, green technologies, and unmanned-vehicle studies). The instrument brings together disparate fields: natural language processing, wearable computing, visualization, data mining, and interaction.

一个名为PI 2的混合现实环境预计将成为该机构复杂数据分析长期愿景的一个不可或缺的重要组成部分，实际上，这是一种人机共生关系，在这种关系中，人类引导计算机识别潜在感兴趣的特征，然后计算机定位并显示这些特征。开发这种视觉需要在多个领域取得进展，包括半自动特征检测，视觉表示和交互，传统的显示方式限制了可以显示和感知的内容。此外，该工具还促进了广泛的跨学科研究，并为多样化的学生群体提供了创新的教学和研究环境。它有助于培训未来几代研究人员进行最先进的交互式可视化计算，以进行数据分析，并能够开展更广泛的活动和课程，并扩大研究，以推广新的应用程序（例如，通过与史密森尼博物馆合作，为美国印第安人提供数字人文。期望包括：-推进目前被封锁或严重限制的创造性探索的多种途径将迅速发展。(The仪器鼓励科学，医疗保健，生物医学，国家安全，人文和教育研究人员的视觉思维）; -建立不同类别的知识发现分析所需的适当技术水平;以及-和表达的一套技术，许多网络物理和网络人类系统。PI 2是一个混合现实环境，旨在支持交互式计算和数字人文学科的研究。该仪器的全立体声和单模态打破了虚拟现实（VR）和瓷砖墙显示器之间的传统障碍。PI 2以前所未有的细节合成、捕捉、创建和分析视觉信息的能力可以改变分析人员与视觉信息交互的方式。利用许多重要特性：沉浸感，混合现实，高分辨率，大视野，大空间和尺寸，以身体为中心的人机交互，以及对异构数据融合的支持，它使研究领域的多个项目受益（例如，脑连接体、林地生态学、人际经验、生物医学、通用访问、工程物理学、模拟、系统生物学、教育、数字人文学、绿色技术和无人驾驶车辆研究）。该仪器汇集了不同的领域：自然语言处理，可穿戴计算，可视化，数据挖掘和交互。