Intellectual Systems and Technologies

3D reconstruction of the spatial form of the human foot based on three digital images

V. G. Shubnikov, S. Yu. Belyaev

Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University

Abstract: 3D reconstruction of human body parts is one of the most prominent directions of research in the highend technology industry. There are a lot of new tasks in the modern footwear industry, such as mass marketoriented individual shoe manufacturing and footwear fit factor estimation. In the near future “virtual fitting rooms” in the form of websites will use different approaches to footwear comfort estimation. Some of them will use 3D reconstruction of the human foot, based only on 3 digital images. In this article we described the special conditions required for obtaining such input images in typical home/office conditions without professional photo equipment. We described a 3D method for foot reconstruction.

Keywords: human foot measurements, image processing, pattern recognition, shoe fitting, shoeware comfort estimation, 3D reconstruction.

UDC: 004.932

DOI: 10.5862/JCSTCS.234.5