Personalized 3D mannequin reconstruction based on 3D scanning

Abstract

Personalized customization is a new manufacturing trend in high-end products (e.g. senior custom clothing).Traditional apparel customization (made-to-measure & bespoken) highly depends on experienced tailors. A personalized mannequin is essential for apparel customization using CAD technologies. Currently, a common method of reconstructing mannequin is based on body measurements or body features. It only preserves the body size instead of preserving the accurate user's stature. However, the same human body measurement does not equal to the same body shape. This may result in an unfit garment for the user. This paper proposes a novel scanning-based pipeline to reconstruct a personalized mannequin, which preserves both body size and body stature information. We first capture the body of a user via 3D scanning, and a statistical body model is fit to the scanned data. This results in a skinned articulated model of the user. The scanned body is then adjusted to be pose-symmetric via linear blending skinning. The updated pose-symmetric body is then segmented to initialize the stature symmetry processing. Finally, a slice-based method is proposed to generate a symmetric 3D mannequin. The process of apparel customization can be easily digitalized with the help of the proposed mannequin reconstruction system and the corresponding existing clothing CAD software.

Structure-consistent customized virtual mannequin reconstruction from 3D scans based on optimization

“…Hu et al. 2 reconstruct the mannequin from 3D scans, and the symmetry of a mannequin is solved very well in their work. Xu et al.…”

“…All the methods are post-processing the scanning results of a 3D camera directly, except Hu et al.’s. 2 Furthermore, the post-processing is very cumbersome and tedious. Recently, Huang et al.…”

“…The commercial value of made-to-measure is gradually emerging, and it will be a vast market around the world. 2 With the development of technology, designers also prefer to use digital tools like computer-aided design (CAD) and 3D scanning to design a garment. However, there are two impediments that are unavoidable when applying these techniques to made-to-measure: automatic human body measurement and personalized mannequin reconstruction.…”

“…The mannequin sold in the market can be divided into two categories according to different application scenarios. 2 The first one is the standard mannequin, which is usually in a standard standing pose (limbs and head are excluded sometimes), as shown in Figure 1(a). The second one is the display mannequin that can be flexible to any posture, as shown in Figure 1(b).…”

A new method to evaluate the dynamic air gap thickness and garment sliding of virtual clothes during walking

“…3D scanning rapidly captures the 3D geometry/ shape of a subject. It has been successfully applied to 3D human body reconstruction [11][12][13] and automatic body measurements. 14 Frackiewicz-Kaczmarek, 15 and Yu et al 16 applied 3D scanning to explore the air gap thickness between the garment and the mannequin.…”