MRI: Acquisition of a Virtual Reality System for Expert Decision Making and Immersive Learning

MRI：获取用于专家决策和沉浸式学习的虚拟现实系统

• 批准号: 2018850
• 负责人: Prasad Calyam
• 金额: $ 27万
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2018850&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; Virtual; Reality; System

This Instrument of an immersive virtual reality (VR) system with synchronized motion tracking system will provide a much-needed technology capability for research and education that is not readily accessible to academia and industry in the state of Missouri and the surrounding geographical region. The VR system will support research and educational activities of a large number of University of Missouri (MU) faculty members and their external collaborators in diverse science and engineering fields such as transportation, imaging, civil structure architectures, information technology, bioinformatics as well as education. The VR system is planned to be integrated into multiple courses at MU as well as other schools in Missouri. Further, this infrastructure will support NSF REU sites, as well as other training programs already active at MU, while broadening participation of underrepresented and underserved groups at the regional level. Outreach activities in the project will help disseminate best practices, technologies, tools, policies, and service models to streamline the engineering/operations of the VR system for a new generation of applications. This will be valuable for other campuses and research labs across the world. Last, the planned VR system engagement with first responders in public safety demonstrations will provide an opportunity to explore translation of the project outcomes to the community.This immersive virtual reality (VR) system with a synchronized motion tracking system will enable foundational and applied research studies across multiple disciplines to gain a better understanding of decision making under complex situations involving human-machine interactions and learning in three-dimensional virtual reality datasets. The research activities envisioned will span a broad set of areas such as: computer graphics, computer vision, machine learning, transportation systems, built environment prototyping, public safety during disaster response, computational biology and bioinformatics. The project outcomes will create new knowledge pertaining to immersive application development, training, and personalized learning to benefit end-user groups such as police, fire fighters, civil engineers, public works personnel, transportation engineers, and educators.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这种具有同步运动跟踪系统的沉浸式虚拟现实（VR）系统的仪器将为密苏里州及其周边地理区域的学术界和工业界提供急需的研究和教育技术能力。VR系统将支持大量密苏里州大学（MU）教职员工及其外部合作者在不同科学和工程领域的研究和教育活动，如运输，成像，土木结构建筑，信息技术，生物信息学以及教育。VR系统计划被整合到MU以及密苏里州其他学校的多个课程中。此外，这一基础设施将支持NSF REU网站，以及其他已经在MU活跃的培训计划，同时扩大在区域一级代表性不足和服务不足的群体的参与。该项目的外展活动将有助于传播最佳实践、技术、工具、政策和服务模式，以简化虚拟现实系统的工程/操作，以适应新一代的应用。这将对世界各地的其他校园和研究实验室有价值。最后，计划中的虚拟现实系统与第一反应者在公共安全示范中的合作将提供一个机会，探索将项目成果转化为社区。这个具有同步运动跟踪系统的沉浸式虚拟现实系统将使多个学科的基础和应用研究能够更好地了解在涉及人类的复杂情况下的决策，三维虚拟现实数据集中的机器交互和学习。设想的研究活动将跨越广泛的领域，如：计算机图形学，计算机视觉，机器学习，交通系统，建筑环境原型，灾害响应期间的公共安全，计算生物学和生物信息学。项目成果将创造与沉浸式应用开发、培训和个性化学习相关的新知识，使最终用户群体（如警察、消防队员、土木工程师、公共工程人员、交通工程师和教育工作者）受益。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

3D Modeling of Cities for Virtual Environments

虚拟环境中的城市 3D 建模

• DOI: 10.1109/bigdata52589.2021.9671898
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data
• 作者: Davis, Calvin;Collins, Jaired;Fraser, Joshua;Zhang, Haoxiang;Yao, Shizeng;Lattanzio, Emily;Balakrishnan, Bimal;Duan, Ye;Calyam, Prasad;Palaniappan, Kannappan
• 通讯作者: Palaniappan, Kannappan

CAVE-VR and Unity Game Engine for Visualizing City Scale 3D Meshes

用于可视化城市规模 3D 网格的 CAVE-VR 和 Unity 游戏引擎

• DOI: 10.1109/ccnc49033.2022.9700515
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: 2022 IEEE 19th Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC
• 作者: Davis, Calvin;Collins, Jaired;Fraser, Joshua;Zhang, Haoxiang;Yao, Shizeng;Lattanzio, Emily;Balakrishnan, Bimal;Duan, Ye;Calyam, Prasad;Palaniappan, Kannappan
• 通讯作者: Palaniappan, Kannappan

Networked and Multimodal 3D Modeling of Cities for Collaborative Virtual Environments

用于协作虚拟环境的城市网络化和多模式 3D 建模

• DOI: 10.1109/bdcat56447.2022.00037
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: IEEE/ACM BDCAT Proceedings
• 作者: Hall, Benjamin;Kessler, Joseph;Edo-Ohanba, Osayamen;Collins, Jaired;Zhang, Haoxiang;Allegreti, Nick;Duan, Ye;Wang, Songjie;Palaniappan, Kannappan;Calyam, Prasad
• 通讯作者: Calyam, Prasad