Automatic 3D garment positioning based on surface metric. (May 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tisserand, Yvain; Cuel, Louis; Magnenat‐Thalmann, Nadia
• Is Part Of: Computer animation and virtual worlds. Volume 28:Number 3/4(2017)
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• Publication Date: 2017-05
• Subjects: cloth simulation -- garment positioning -- surface metric minimisation -- virtual try‐on; Computer animation -- Periodicals; Visualization -- Periodicals; 006.6
• DOI: 10.1002/cav.1770
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1546-4261

Abstract

Abstract: Positioning virtual garments onto a 3D avatar is known to be a time‐consuming process. This task is usually done manually if the proportion of the garment needs to be kept during the process for a fitting purpose. The positioning of the garment is currently the main limitation to propose a fully automatic virtual try‐on application. This paper presents an automatic method based on surface energy minimisation that allows fully automatically positioning of a 3D virtual cloth without deformation of the patterns. The minimum of surface energy is reached by animating the humanoid avatar. Humanoid joints are manipulated to place a 3D avatar into the virtual garment. The proposed method, as well as its implementation, is described in this paper.