| Download | - View accepted manuscript: Analysis of Human Shape Variation using Volumetric Techniques (PDF, 445 KiB)
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| Author | Search for: Ben Azouz, Zouhour; Search for: Rioux, Marc; Search for: Shu, Chang; Search for: Lepage, R. |
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Conference | The 17th Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA2004), July 7-9, 2004, Geneva, Switzerland |
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| Subject | 3-D anthropometry; volumetric description; human body modeling |
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| Abstract | Analyzing human shape variability is important for human system engineering and for animation applications where synthesizing realistic virtual humans is needed to re-create social human activities in historical and cultural context. In this paper, we present a new method for extracting main modes of variations of the human shape from a 3-D anthropometric database. Previous approaches rely on anatomical landmarks. Using a volumetric representation, we show that human shape analysis can be performed despite the lack of such information. We first introduce a technique for repairing the 3-D models from the original scans. Principal components analysis is then applied to the volumetric description of a set of human models to extract dominant components of shape variability for a target population. We demonstrate good reconstructions of the original models from a reduced number of components. We provide a visualization of the main modes of human shape variation. |
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| Publication date | 2004 |
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| Language | English |
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| NRC number | NRCC 47147 |
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| NPARC number | 5763654 |
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| Record identifier | db09f982-918b-43f6-bd9d-8eabd775474f |
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| Record created | 2009-03-29 |
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| Record modified | 2021-01-05 |
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