TY - JOUR
T1 - The body silhouette
T2 - Digital Human Modeling for Design and Engineering Conference and Exhibition, DHM 2009
AU - Lerch, Terry
AU - Harder, Dana
AU - MacGillivray, Maureen S.
AU - Domina, Tanya
AU - Kinnicutt, Patrick
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The ability to effectively use point cloud data produced by various scanning devices continues to be a major issue in reverse engineering and anthropometric-related fields of study. The body silhouette provides a new way of interpreting point cloud data depicting a human form. Redundancy in raw point cloud data is removed by a relatively simple programming algorithm. The remaining data can be used to determine geometric properties such as cross sectional area or circumference of each horizontal slice plane of the volume. When cross sectional area or circumference is computed for each horizontal plane of the body's torso and plotted as a function of the torso's height, a profile or silhouette of the body is produced. The body silhouette provides a unique way of interpreting point cloud data which can be used to develop new health assessment techniques and apparel design methods.
AB - The ability to effectively use point cloud data produced by various scanning devices continues to be a major issue in reverse engineering and anthropometric-related fields of study. The body silhouette provides a new way of interpreting point cloud data depicting a human form. Redundancy in raw point cloud data is removed by a relatively simple programming algorithm. The remaining data can be used to determine geometric properties such as cross sectional area or circumference of each horizontal slice plane of the volume. When cross sectional area or circumference is computed for each horizontal plane of the body's torso and plotted as a function of the torso's height, a profile or silhouette of the body is produced. The body silhouette provides a unique way of interpreting point cloud data which can be used to develop new health assessment techniques and apparel design methods.
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U2 - 10.4271/2009-01-2299
DO - 10.4271/2009-01-2299
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85072467621
SN - 0148-7191
JO - SAE Technical Papers
JF - SAE Technical Papers
Y2 - 9 June 2009 through 9 June 2009
ER -