Automatic body measurement based on slicing loops
International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology
ISSN: 0955-6222
Article publication date: 30 April 2018
Issue publication date: 24 July 2018
Abstract
Purpose
The automatic body measurement is the key of tailoring, mass customization and fit/ease evaluation. The major challenges include finding the landmarks and extracting the sizes accurately. The purpose of this paper is to propose a new method of body measurement based on the loop structure.
Design/methodology/approach
The scanned human model is sliced equally to layers consist of various shapes of loops. The semantic feature analysis has been regarded as a problem of finding the points of interest (POI) and the loop of interest (LOI) according to the types of loop connections. Methods for determining the basic landmarks have been detailed.
Findings
The experimental results validate that the proposed methods can be used to locate the landmarks and to extract sizes on markless human scans robustly and efficiently.
Originality/value
With the method, the body measurement can be quickly performed with average errors around 0.5 cm. The results of segmentation, landmarking and body measurements also validate the robustness and efficiency of the proposed methods.
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Acknowledgements
This work was supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (61572124).
Citation
Zhong, Y., Li, D., Wu, G. and Hu, P. (2018), "Automatic body measurement based on slicing loops", International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology, Vol. 30 No. 3, pp. 380-397. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCST-06-2017-0086
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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