Human Body Segment Volume Estimation with Two RGB-D Cameras

Abstract: In the field of human biometry, accurately estimating the volume of the whole body and its individual segments is of fundamental importance. Such measurements support a wide range of applications that include assessing health, optimizing ergonomic design, and customizing biomechanical models. In this work, we presented a Body Segment Volume Estimation (BSV) system to automatically compute whole-body and segment volumes using only two RGB-D cameras, thus limiting the system complexity. However, to maintain the accuracy comparable to 3D laser scanners, we enhanced the As-Rigid-As-Possible (ARAP) non-rigid registration techniques, disconnecting its energy from the single triangle mesh. Thus, we improved the geometrical coherence of the reconstructed mesh, especially in the lateral gap areas. We evaluated BSV starting from the RGB-D camera performances, through the results obtained with FAUST dataset human body models, and comparing with a state-of-the-art work, up to real acquisitions. It showed superior ability in accurately estimating human body volumes, and it allows evaluating volume ratios between proximal and distal body segments, which are useful indices in many clinical applications.