Rapid Body Scanning Technology for a Virtual Mass Customization Process in Garment Industry

Ernst, Michael E.; Boehm, Monika; Detering-Kolll, Ute; Windvogel, Deidre

doi:10.15221/16.159

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“…This means that AvatarStudio uses the most important aspects of the 3D shapes, and thus has "learned" the most important aspects of what human geometry looks like. In this particular use case, 100 main components are used [6,7,8]. Since each major component has about 500k 3D vectors [9,10], this gives us the possibility to use a relatively compact representation of the most important aspects of the 3D data observed in the serial measurement.…”

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Efficient virtual garment fit evaluation infrastructure based on synthetic avatar target customer groups for MtM application

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Christophersen

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Customization becomes more and more popular and influences the product development process in apparel industry. In addition to individualized products, the fit of garments is very important for the customization. Numerous tools are used to take the right measurements, to transport individual posture information and to implement these data correctly into a product pattern based on a predefined construction system. Unfortunately, in most cases the mass customization process takes place without a fitting session. Usually fit and design will be checked in the last process step, when the product is already manufactured. Virtual product development is a powerful tool to change this process getting an early fit and design check. By using a test population representing the target group, it is possible to check the sizing and to screen the fit of a product on individual bodies and postures in a short time. In a joint project between the Virtual Lab of Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences and Avalution GmbH, a practical approach for the implementation of a fitting session to a mass customization product development process was developed. The entire process has a three-level structure: First, the avatar population is built up using garment specific body measurements. Connected to a 3D simulation program, an automatic process of determining the made-to-measure (MtM) values, carrying out the MtM grading and the fitting on the selected avatar are initiated. In a special application, the digital try-ons are finally output as images in different physical aspects for evaluation.

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Efficient virtual garment fit evaluation infrastructure based on synthetic avatar target customer groups for MtM application

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et al. 2020

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“…This means that customers are not obliged to dress tight clothes to get their correct measurements. Ernst et al 2016 present a research study where several commercial solutions have been compared to assess performances. Among them, there are commercial solutions allowing body scanning through the use of single or multiple RGB-D low cost sensors as well as automatic body measurements.…”

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“…With our solution, the human body has been acquired in 120 seconds and the automatic reconstruction of the mesh has been executed in 15 seconds. By the way, the high modularity of proposed solution permits to consider faster and more accurate 3D scanning systems based on RGB-D sensors (Ernst et al 2016, Geng & Bidanda 2017. Furthermore, it can be integrated into existing solutions in order to permit both automatic measurement extraction and take specific customer measurements interacting with the customer's avatar using hands.…”

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Acquisition of customer’s tailor measurements for 3D clothing design using virtual reality devices

Vitali

Rizzi

2018

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Over recent years, various virtual prototyping technologies have been developed to innovate apparel industry. For each step of the garment design process one can find dedicated tools (from body acquisition to garment modelling and simulation) with the aim of making the process easier and faster. However, most of them are based on expensive solutions both for hardware and software systems. In this paper, we focus the attention on the first step of the made-to-measure garment design, i.e., customer's measures acquisition. We present a plug-in, named Tailor Tracking, which permits to get the measurements by interacting with the customer's avatar using hands as in the traditional way. Tailor Tracking has been developed using low cost devices, such as Microsoft Kinect sensor, Leap motion device and Oculus Rift, and open source libraries, such as Visualisation Toolkit (VTK) and Qt. The proposed approach is based on the use of multiple Kinect v2 to simultaneously acquire both customer's body and motion. This permits to emulate the customer's postures required to take the correct measurements. In addition, a virtual measuring tape is made available to replicate the one commonly used by the tailor. A men shirt has been considered as case study and a tailor and 14 people with no skills in garment design and different levels of experience in virtual reality technology have been involved to preliminary test Tailor 2 tracking. Finally, tests as well as results reached so far are presented and discussed. Results have been considered quite good; however, some critical measures have been identified as well as future developments. Anyway, Tailor Tracking can represent an alternative solution to the existing approach that automatically extract anthropometric measures from the customer's avatar.

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Rapid Body Scanning Technology for a Virtual Mass Customization Process in Garment Industry

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Efficient virtual garment fit evaluation infrastructure based on synthetic avatar target customer groups for MtM application

Efficient virtual garment fit evaluation infrastructure based on synthetic avatar target customer groups for MtM application

Acquisition of customer’s tailor measurements for 3D clothing design using virtual reality devices

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