Title: Description of human body shape using an isomorphic polygon

Authors: Kensuke Nakamura, Takao Kurokawa

Addresses: Department of Advanced Fibro-Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki Hashigami-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan. ' Department of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Machikaneyama-cho 1-3, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan

Abstract: A novel polygon model describing human body shape is developed. Firstly, a method of expressing an arbitrary point on a polygon mesh using the UV plane is proposed. An isomorphic feature of the model enables us to fit the polygon model to three-dimensional (3D) measurements by means of the least square method. Secondly, in order to optimise the model structure, vertices of the model are allocated to trunk shape based on multiple sets of 3D measurements of Japanese women. Finally, the experimental results show that the derived generic model consisting of 1,087 vertices can reconstruct the original shapes with the average error of 1.19 mm, sufficient for practical use.

Keywords: body shape modelling; female trunk; isomorphic polygon; least squares fitting; mathematical modelling; model structure optimisation; three-dimensional measurement; 3D measurement; human body shape.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISTA.2010.036579

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, 2010 Vol.9 No.3/4, pp.239 - 252

Published online: 04 Nov 2010 *

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