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HoloLens Applications for Spatial Analysis, Building Evacuation, and Crime Analysis
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HoloLens Applications for Spatial Analysis, Building Evacuation, and Crime Analysis
Current Students: Alwin Prabu, Rishitha Reddy Pesaladinne
Status: Current
Early hands-on experiences with the Microsoft HoloLens augmented/mixed reality device have given promising results for building evacuation & crime analysis applications. A range of use cases are tested, including data visualization and immersive data spaces, in-situ visualization of 3D models and full-scale architectural form visualization. We present how the mixed reality technology can provide spatial contextualized 3D visualization that promotes knowledge acquisition and support cognitive mapping.
Building Evacuation & Spatial Analysis
During emergencies, accurate and timely dissemination of information plays a critical role in saving lives and minimizing damage. As technology continues to advance, there is an increasing need to explore innovative approaches that enhance situational awareness and facilitate efficient decision-making in emergency scenarios.
| HoloLens Application for Spatial Analysis and Building Evacuation at Discovery Park Building, 1st floor (Version 4) | HoloLens Application for Spatial Analysis and Building Evacuation at Discovery Park Building, 2nd floor (Version 3) |
| HoloLens at Department of Information Science at UNT (HoloLens Version 1) | HoloLens at Discovery Park Building lobby near DVXR Lab (HoloLens Version 2) |
| Work in Progress for building evacuation using Mixed Reality device (HoloLens) | Work in Progress for building evacuation using HoloLens |
| Phase 2: Building Evacuation using Hololens Video at BSU | Phase 1: Building Evacuation using Hololens Video at BSU |
Crime Data Analysis
This work focuses on the integration of mixed reality (MR) and crime data analysis. We visualizes the crime data for four different cities: Chicago, Baltimore, Dallas, and Denton by loading crime datasets into the HoloLens 2 device and displaying them in a mixed-reality setting for data analysis.
| Crime Data Visualization using HoloLens 2 (V3) | Crime Data Visualization using HoloLens 2 (V2) |
| Crime Data Visualization using HoloLens 2 (V1) | Crime Data Visualization using HoloLens 2 (V0) |
Publications
- Sharma, S, Dronavalli, S.C., Chellatore, M.P., Pesaladinne R., "Interactive Visualizations for Crime Data Analysis by Mixed Reality", Springer Nature Switzerland AG, in J. Y. C. Chen and G. Fragomeni (Eds.): HCII 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61047-9_19, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)14708, pp. 1-18, 2024.
- Sharma, S and Pesaladinne R.,"Spatial Analysis and Visual Communication of Emergency Information through Augmented Reality", Journal of Imaging Science & Technology (JIST), JIST, Vol. 67, Issue 6, https://doi.org/10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.2023.67.6.060401, 2023.
- Dronavalli,S. Pesaladinne, R., Sharma, S., "Crime Data Visualization Using Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, (IEEE-CSCI-RTSC), Las Vegas, USA, December 13-15, 2023.
- Pesaladinne, R., Chellatore, M.P.,Dronavalli,S., Sharma, S., "Situational awareness and feature extraction for indoor building navigation using mixed reality", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, (IEEE-CSCI), Research Track on Big Data and Data Science (CSCI-RTBD), Las Vegas, USA, December 13-15, 2023.
- Sharma, S., Bodempudi, S.T., Scribner, D., "Identifying anomalous behavior in a building using HoloLens for emergency response", IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging (EI 2020), in the Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality, https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2020.13.ERVR-224, Burlingame, California, 26 January- 30 January 2020.
- Sharma, S, Bodempudi, S.T., Scribner, D., Grynovicki, J., Grazaitis, P., "Emergency response using HoloLens for building evacuation", Proceeding of 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21607-8_23 , Online ISBN 978-3-030-21607-8, Orlando, Florida, USA, 26-31 July, HCII 2019, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11574, pp. 299–311, 2019.
- Stigall, J., Bodempudi, S.T., Sharma, S, Scribner, D., Grynovicki, J., Grazaitis, P., "Use of Microsoft HoloLens in indoor evacuation", International Journal of Computers and their Applications, IJCA, Vol. 26, No. 1, March 2019.
- Stigall, J., Sharma, S, "Evaluation of Mobile Augmented Reality Application for Building Evacuation", Proceedings of 28th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE 2019) in San Diego, CA, USA on September 30 - October 2, 2019.
- Stigall, J., Bodempudi, S.T., Sharma, S, Scribner, D., Grynovicki, J., Grazaitis, P., "Building Evacuation using Microsoft HoloLens", Proceedings of 27th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE 2018), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, pp. 20-25, October 8-10, 2018. [Best paper award finalist
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