Abstract
In order to construct a CAD systm for clothing, body shape information must be obtained by measuring a human body. The silhouette method, a non-contact method, is a relatively easy one to measure the body and gives very little psychological influence on the person who is measured. This method, however, only provides a two-dimensional silhouette. In this report, we propose a method of constructing a three dimensional body model based on a two-dimensional silhouette derived from the silhouette method. The modeling method is summarized as following; (1) Obtain a body skeleton by thinning the silhouette. (2) Obtain skeleton segments by using κ-curvature. (3) Compose three-dimensional parts matching with the silhouette by using hyper-quadratic function. (4) Compose a three-dimensional body model with the parts obtained from (3).
