High-Density Scanning for Virtual Heritage and Archeology : Reproduction and Restoration

Body scanning for avatar production and animation

“…The body scanner offers technology which is commonly applied within the fashion industry for collecting measurements of the physique (Li & Li, 2010), which is then analysed for the purpose of garment design (Tyler, Mitchell, & Gill, 2012;Xu, Huang, Yu, & Chen, 2002) and sizing standards development (Loker, Ashdown, & Shoenfelder, 2005;Wren & Gill, 2010). The non-contact, 3D measurement system is based on infrared depth sensing technology similar to that used in the Microsoft Kinect (Doi, Shimizu, & Sato, 2007;Tong, Zhou, Liu, Pan, & Yan, 2012) and uses distance information from the International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education 127 depth sensor to produce a digital copy of surface geometry of the scanned object, similar to methods used for model reconstruction in archaeology (Doi et al, 2007). 3D images are taken of the body within seconds, generating a silhouette of the shape and an extensive list of actual body measurements (see Figure 3).…”