A Tool Kit to Generate 3D Animated CAESAR Bodies

Published

October 1, 2005

Author(s)

Quandou (. Wang, Sanford P. Ressler

Abstract

The Civilian American and European Surface Anthropometry Resource (CAESAR) database provides a comprehensive source for body measurement in numerous industries such as apparel, aerospace, and automobile. Generating animated CAESAR body sequences from still surface and landmark data will stimulate research and design in these areas. A tool kit has been developed to convert CAESAR bodies to models compliant with the Humanoid Animation specification (H-Anim). It will be helpful to set up a realistic motion capable humanoid library for application environment that can be reused in a wide variety of ergonomic applications. The process consists of preprocessing the mesh, building a skeleton structure, creating segments of the body, assigning weights for vertices, and integrating motion capture data. Publicly available software is adopted for mesh compression and hole filling. C programs were developed to implement the translation from CAESAR body data to H-Anim. The technical issues involved in the process are discussed, and experimental results are shown in the paper.

Proceedings Title

2005 SAE Digital Human Modeling For Design and Engineering Symposium

Conference Dates

June 14, 2005

Conference Location

Iowa City, IA, USA

Conference Title

SAE Conference

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

3D digital human, CAESAR project, H-Anim, human animation, VRML

Citation

Wang, Q. and Ressler, S. (2005), A Tool Kit to Generate 3D Animated CAESAR Bodies, 2005 SAE Digital Human Modeling For Design and Engineering Symposium, Iowa City, IA, USA, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=150282 (Accessed December 4, 2024)