We devised new body shape silhouettes to more accurately reflect Japanese body sizes. Our aim was to assess the association between measured body mass index (BMI) and body size through self-selection of nine figure scales. This study was comprised of 4808 men and 1093 women aged 35-71 years. Subjects were asked to identify the silhouettes that most accurately represent their current body size. ...

We consider random polytopes defined as the convex hull of a Poisson point process on a sphere in R3 such that its average number of points is n. We show that the expectation over all such random polytopes of the maximum size of their silhouettes viewed from infinity is Θ( √ n).

INTRODUCTION Over the recent decades various marker­based video capture systems have been developed in order to estimate segment kinematics in biomechanics applications. It may not be a disproportionate statement to claim that this method is regarded as the gold standard in laboratory based settings. Inherent problems to these systems include adequate marker placement, skin movement artefacts a...

Visual Hull (VH) construction is a popular method of shape estimation. The method, also known as Shape from Silhouette (SFS), approximates shape of an object from multiple silhouette images by constructing an upper bound of the shape called the Visual Hull. SFS is used in many applications such as non-invasive 3D object digitization, 3D object recognition and more recently human motion tracking...