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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.

MARA at Department of Information Science at UNT (HoloLens Version 1)

MARA 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

  1. Sharma, S., Pesaladinne R., "Spatial Analysis and Visual Communication of Emergency Information through Augmented Reality", Proceedings of the IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging (EI 2024) in the Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality Conference, January 21-25, 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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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