RECENT ADVANCES IN 3D FULL BODY SCANNING WITH APPLICATIONS TO FASHION AND APPAREL

Abstract

This paper presents the recent advances in 3D full body scanning technologies with applications to the fashion and apparel industry. Indeed, 3D body scanning systems equipped with dedicated software solutions may serve the customers of for various purposes: automatic extraction of body measurements, recommendation of adequate garment sizes, virtual representation of garments on 3D human body model, production of customized garments. In the last couple of years, a large cost reduction of the 3D full body scanning equipment took place and new manufacturers appeared in the marked, thus increasing the interest of fashion and apparel industry in methods and technologies for digitization of the human body. This paper gives firstly an overview of the various methods used for the 3D measurement of the human body, depicting their differences and characteristics. The focus is then placed on the recent advancements of complete 3D full body scanning systems developed especially for fashion applications. Complete automatism is achieved both in the 3D scanning and 3D data processing in order to extract the relevant body measures and to generate avatars that represent accurately the scanned persons. Software packages for virtual-try-on applications have also been continuously ameliorated, allowing a true-like visual representation of garments virtually worn by the generated avatars.