Although the measurement of human sizes and the reconstruction of mannequins have been extensively studied, there has been little research on systems applicable for measurement and reconstruction under clothes. This work presents a method for three-dimensional (3D) mannequin reconstruction and human body size measurement based on information fusion of multiple sensors. For this purpose, a multi-sensor information acquisition system (MIAS) is developed allowing one to acquire 11 key size data of the human body under clothes. The MIAS is based on the proposed parametric mannequin method and the Laplace mesh deformation technique, thus allowing one to reconstruct the mannequin conforming to the MIAS measurements. All mannequins reconstructed by this method have the same topology, which will greatly facilitate subsequent processing, such as garment design, customization and virtual fitting. The results of the reconstruction experiments show that our system can reconstruct a mannequin that matches the size of the feature parts very well. In addition, performed comparison experiments with manual and laser measurements shows that the measurement results of our system are close to those of manual and laser measurements. This provides a viable method for measuring key body sizes under clothes and reconstructing the corresponding 3D mannequin.
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