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）系统仪器将为研究和教育提供急需的技术能力，而密苏里州及周边地理区域的学术界和工业界很难获得这种能力。 VR系统将支持密苏里大学（MU）大量教职人员及其外部合作者在交通、成像、土木结构建筑、信息技术、生物信息学以及教育等不同科学和工程领域的研究和教育活动。该 VR 系统计划集成到密苏里大学以及密苏里州其他学校的多个课程中。此外，该基础设施将支持 NSF REU 站点以及密苏里大学已经开展的其他培训项目，同时扩大区域层面代表性不足和服务不足群体的参与。该项目的推广活动将有助于传播最佳实践、技术、工具、政策和服务模型，以简化新一代应用程序的 VR 系统的工程/运营。这对于世界各地的其他校园和研究实验室来说非常有价值。最后，计划在公共安全演示中与急救人员合作的 VR 系统将提供一个探索项目成果向社区转化的机会。这种带有同步运动跟踪系统的沉浸式虚拟现实 (VR) 系统将支持基础和应用研究跨多个学科，以更好地理解涉及人机交互和三维虚拟现实数据集学习的复杂情况下的决策。设想的研究活动将涵盖广泛的领域，例如：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、灾难响应期间的公共安全、计算生物学和生物信息学。该项目成果将创造与沉浸式应用程序开发、培训和个性化学习相关的新知识，使警察、消防员、土木工程师、公共工程人员、交通工程师和教育工作者等最终用户群体受益。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，并被认为值得支持。

项目成果

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: 2022-12
• 期刊: IEEE/ACM BDCAT Proceedings
• 作者: Hall, Benjamin;Kessler, Joseph;Edo;Collins, Jaired;Zhang, Haoxiang;Allegreti, Nick;Duan, Ye;Wang, Songjie;Palaniappan, Kannappan;Calyam, Prasad
• 通讯作者: Calyam, Prasad

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: 2022-01
• 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

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: 2021-12
• 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