Learning body shape models from real-world data Brett Allen Co-Chairs of Supervisory Committee: Associate Professor Brian Curless Department of Computer Science and Engineering Associate Professor Zoran Popović Department of Computer Science and Engineering Creating realistic human characters is one of the most challenging topics in computer graphics, due to the subtleties of human motion and a...

BACKGROUND Postoperative body shape expectations (BSE) of bariatric surgery candidates remain relatively unexplored, and may have important implications for weight loss outcomes, treatment satisfaction, and education. METHODS The 'Silhouette Figure Rating Scale' was administered to 69 consecutive female candidates. Self-perceived current and goal body shape and postoperative BSE in four categ...

Major evolutionary innovations can greatly influence subsequent evolution. While many major transitions occurred in the deep past, male live-bearing fishes (family Poeciliidae) more recently evolved a novel body plan. This group possesses three-region axial skeleton, with one region—the ano-urogenital region—representing unique region accommodating genitalic structures (gonopodial complex). Her...

We propose a method to estimate the detailed 3D shape of a person from images of that person wearing clothing. The approach exploits a model of human body shapes that is learned from a database of over 2000 range scans. We show that the parameters of this shape model can be recovered independently of body pose. We further propose a generalization of the visual hull to account for the fact that ...

The three-body problem defines dynamics on the space of triangles in the plane. The shape sphere is the moduli space of oriented similarity classes of planar triangles and lies inside shape space, a Euclidean three-space parameterizing oriented congruence classes of triangles. We derive and investigate the geometry and dynamics induced on these spaces by the three-body problem. We present two t...

Three studies show that product packaging shape serves as a cue that communicates healthiness of food products. Inspired by embodiment accounts, we show that packaging that simulates a slim body shape acts as a symbolic cue for product healthiness (e.g., low in calories), as opposed to packaging that simulates a wide body shape. Furthermore, we show that the effect of slim package shape on cons...