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Image-based virtual exhibit and its extension to 3D

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Abstract

In this paper we introduce an image-based virtual exhibition system especially for clothing product. It can provide a powerful material substitution function, which is very useful for customization clothing-built. A novel color substitution algorithm and two texture morphing methods are designed to ensure realistic substitution result. To extend it to 3D, we need to do the model reconstruction based on photos. Thus we present an improved method for modeling human body. It deforms a generic model with shape details extracted from pictures to generate a new model. Our method begins with model image generation followed by silhouette extraction and segmentation. Then it builds a mapping between pixels inside every pair of silhouette segments in the model image and in the picture. Our mapping algorithm is based on a slice space representation that conforms to the natural features of human body.

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This work was supported by 973 Project (No. 2002CB312100) and Key National Natural Science Foundation of China Project on Digital Olympic Museum (No. 60533080), and National 863 High-tech Project (No. 2006AA01Z303).

Ming-Min Zhang received her B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees from Computer Science Dept, Nanjing University in 1990 and from Zhengjiang University in 1995, respectively. She is currently an associate professor of Computer and Engineering Department, Zhejiang University.

She has published more than 20 papers in recent years. She is the co-author of two books related to computer graphics and multimedia. Her research interests include virtual reality/virtual environment, multi-resolution modeling, real-time rendering, distributed VR, visualization, multimedia and image processing.

Zhi-Geng Pan received his B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees from Computer Science Dept, Nanjing University in 1987 and 1990, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Computer Science and Engineering Department, Zhejiang University in 1993. He is currently a professor of Computer and Engineering Department, Zhejiang University.

He has published more than 70 papers in recent years. He is the co-author of two books related to computer graphics and multimedia. His research interests include virtual reality/virtual environment, multi-resolution modeling, real-time rendering, distributed VR, visualization, multimedia and image processing.

Li-Feng Ren received his B. Sc. degree in engineering from Hebei University of Technology in 1996. Currently, he is a Ph. D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Zhejiang University, China.

His research interests include human body modeling, character animation, and real-time rendering.

Peng Wang received his Ph.D. degree in engineering from Computer Science Department, Zhejiang University in 2005.

His research interests include virtual reality/virtual environment, distributed VR, visualization, multimedia and image processing.

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Zhang, MM., Pan, ZG., Ren, LF. et al. Image-based virtual exhibit and its extension to 3D. Int J Automat Comput 4, 18–24 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-007-0018-3

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