Towards 3D thermal models standardisation for human body in motion

Abstract

In this paper, a novel multi-resolution real-time 3D thermal imaging system as potential solution for a human body 3D thermal models standardisation is presented. The system consists of a high-resolution offline 3D scanner and a real-time low-resolution 3D scanner, both of them paired together with a thermal imaging camera. The emphasis of this paper is the presentation of the novel concept of the standardisation of human body 3D thermal models, captured by the multi-resolution real-time 3D thermal imaging system. The standardisation procedure utilises skeleton detection, skeleton transformation, mesh optimisation and texture mapping. The presented concept enables novel and practical methods for human body 3D thermal models comparison and analysis.

Keywords:

• 3D thermal imaging
• 3D thermal model
• skeleton detection
• mesh optimisation
• human body standardisation

Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge the support of scientific research project “Methods of scientific visualization” (098-098 2562-2567), founded by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia. Authors would like to acknowledge the support of the Croatian Technology Institute and the Technology Transfer Office of the University of Zagreb through the project “4D thermographic system for medical diagnostics”, 4D-TGPOC2_01_14-U-1, 2011.