Aims

In today’s context of digital reconversion of processes, companies are now making a commitment to overhauling the innovation and design process for products and modernising the shopping experience by including digital information about the user. The process of digitisation that many companies are implementing in manufacturing products is spreading to the sphere of conceptualisation, design and sales. This is a new paradigm that is being implemented in all of the processes in companies.

Many companies have mentioned the need to have animated body avatars to simulate motion realistically. This enables them to innovate in the process of developing new products and to connect this process with the production phases.

There is a growing trend of introducing simulation technology and virtual and augmented reality in the sales process, whether in shops or online. This supports and stimulates the shopping experience. Realistic avatars and representations of natural, precise motion are also in demand in the industry.



Aware of this, IBV proposes the 3D body dynamics project as a step forward towards meeting such needs. To do so, IBV’s scanning laboratory will generate data that will enable the following outcomes to be seen:

1. New body mesh topology suited to 3D animation.

2. A model of soft tissues.

3. A new method of animating body meshes.

4. A method for inter-frame, point-to-point correspondence.

5. Adaptation of the 4D anthropometry laboratory to capture and animate body avatars.

6. A demonstrator in one of the industries of interest.