Individualised avatars with complete anatomy constructed from the ANSUR II 3-D anthropometric database. (2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zientara, Gary P.; Hoyt, Reed W.
• Is Part Of: International journal of the digital human. Volume 1:Number 4(2016)
• Page Start: 389
• Page End: 411
• Publication Date: 2016
• Subjects: finite element mesh -- avatar -- internal anatomy -- body surface scan -- deformation -- matching -- fitting; Human mechanics -- Computer simulation -- Periodicals; Human engineering -- Computer simulation -- Periodicals; Human-computer interaction -- Periodicals; 620.820113
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2046-3375

Abstract

Individualised 3-D finite element (FE) mesh static avatars with complete labelled internal anatomy were constructed in a fully computerised fashion using 3-D body surface scan mesh data from the ANSUR II 3-D anthropometric database. A combination of skeleton matching, landmark matching and surface matching were employed in a fully automatic method to generate affine geometric transformations deforming a segmented 3-D FE mesh (i.e., having labelled tetrahedral elements) representing standard genderspecific human anatomy. The standard anatomy was deformed to fit into the FE mesh of an individual's body surface scan acquired in the ANSUR II anthropometric study. Two hundred fifty male avatars were computed.