title: Towards a detailed anthropometric body characterization using the Microsoft Kinect.
abstract: Anthropometry has been widely used in different fields, providing relevant information for medicine, ergonomics and biometric applications. However, the existent solutions present marked disadvantages, reducing the employment of this type of evaluation. Studies have been conducted in order to easily determine anthropometric measures considering data provided by low-cost sensors, such as the Microsoft Kinect. In this work, a methodology is proposed and implemented for estimating anthropometric measures considering the information acquired with this sensor. The measures obtained with this method were compared with the ones from a validation system, Qualisys. Comparing the relative errors determined with state-of-art references, for some of the estimated measures, lower errors were verified and a more complete characterization of the whole body structure was achieved.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Domingues
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
authors.forename: Filipa
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Barbosa
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.|INESCTEC, Porto, Portugal.
authors.forename: Eduardo M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.affiliation: LABIOMEP, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
authors.forename: Márcio Borgonovo
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal.
authors.forename: Adérito
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Seixas
authors.affiliation: LABIOMEP, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.|CIFI2D, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
authors.forename: João
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vilas-Boas
authors.affiliation: LABIOMEP, UISPA/INEGI/LAETA, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
authors.forename: Joaquim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gabriel
authors.affiliation: LABIOMEP, UISPA/INEGI/LAETA, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.|Medical Imaging Research Unit, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK.
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vardasca
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000886:Anthropometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008297:Male
keywords: Anthropometric measures; Kinect; Qualisys