Anthropometry - Measurement of Humans

• Center for Human Modeling and Simulation, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Computer and Information Science. "The overall goal of the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation is the modeling and animation of human movement. That central topic drives a number of related research interests covering a broad scope from image synthesis to natural language interfaces." Jack Software Research Publications
  
  
• Systems Anthropometry Conference Sponsored by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Tuesday, June 24, 1997 Bethesda, Maryland 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CPSC developed and maintains the world's most comprehensive anthropometric database on children. NIST works with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards.
  
  
• Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Fitts Human Engineering Division of Armstrong Laboratories, Computerized Anthropometric Research and Design Lab Image Science : The 3-D head scanner, the CARD lab's first 3-D scanning device, makes 360-degree scans of human heads and helmets. The WB-4 whole-body scanner, the latest addition to the CARD lab, makes 3-D scans of the entire body.
  
  
• Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Advanced Manikin Development Task Manager: Roy R. Rasmussen, Jr., "Validate the Advanced Dynamic Anthropomorphic Manikin (ADAM) for escape and protection system testing. Develop and refine manikin technology to provide for female accommodation and improved system safety assessment. Correlate measured manikin biofidelic responses to human injury likelihood. Develop databases of manikin and aircraft system interface properties for design, simulation and specification purposes." 3D Shape Recovery using Range Data A. Goshtasby, Geometric modelling using rational Gaussian curves and surfaces, Computer Aided Design, vol. 27, no. 5, May 1995, pp. 363-375.
  
  
• Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, SIG, Surface Imaging of the Human Body "An optical surface scanner was used to digitize and model an adult female torso to demonstrate the feasibility of whole body 3D surface anthropometry. This 3D surface scanner employs structured light and has an acquisition time of less than one second for a 0.4 x 0.4 x 0.4 meter sample volume." Geometric Design of a Multisensor Structured Light Range Digitizer by Michael W. Vannier
  
  
• Marching Through the Visible Man "The National Library of Medicine is creating a digital atlas of the human body. This project, called the Visible Human, has already produced computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and physical cross-sections of a human male cadaver. This paper describes a methodology and results for extracting surfaces from the Visible Male's CT data. We use surface connectivity and isosurface extraction techniques to create polygonal models of the skin, bone, muscle and bowels. Early experiments with the physical cross-sections are also reported. There is a companion paper on the Visible Woman. Make Your Own Visible Woman shows how to use the Visualization Toolkit to make and render surface models of the Visible Woman. The Computer Graphics and Systems Program (CGSP) is a multidisciplinary team of professionals dedicated to pushing the frontiers of computer graphics and visualization technology. For information on the program, please contact Dr. Peter Meenan, the CGSP program manager." - General Electric Research and Development.
  
  
• Kwan Chin Thesis on Inverse Kinematics of Human Arm "This thesis presents inverse kinematics (IK) solutions specifically for the human articulated structure. The main area of research is in robotics where the algebraic and iterative methods for solving IK are investigated in detail. Extensive closed-form solutions (algebraic) for the human arm are derived which can be directly used for solving the IK of the human arm."
  
  
• ErgoWeb "is the place for ergonomics on the World Wide Web. We continue to offer volumes of useful ergonomics information for free to a large world wide audience. .. products, case studies, instructional materials, standards and guidelines, communication opportunities, ergonomics related news, and more" Case Studies, Measuring/Analysis Equipment Reference Room on Ergonomics.
  
  
• Patent Searching This page is the starting point for the US Patent and Trademark Office's free patent databases.
  
  
• NASA National Technical Reports Service Search Form Sample Search on anthropometry and (3D or three-dimensional). (Good List but old) Also Search on Biomedical Imaging (Sample report at NASA NTRS)
  
  
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Human Factors Engineering Center, Industrial Ergonomics Laboratory "Engineering Anthropometry : classical and functional, and related to workstation and equipment design. Biomechanics of the human body; modeling, strength, motions, and working postures. Human engineering of systems, equipment, tools, workstations, and work tasks. Ergonomic design for safety, efficiency, and high performance of manned systems."
  
  
• Proceedings of the Working Group on Electronic Imaging of the Human Body by Jennifer J. Whitestone. Jennifer is a Biomedical Engineer with the Design Technology Branch, Armstrong Laboratory Human Engineering Division, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH. "The Armstrong Laboratory Human Engineering Division, in cooperation with the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology; the Washington University School of Medicine; and the Lister-Hill National Center for Biomedical Communication, National Library of Medicine, hosted the first annual meeting of the Cooperative Working Group on Electronic Imaging of the Human Body. The working group, under the auspices of CSERIAC, brought together 31 researchers from government, industry, and academia working in the area of medical imaging and, more generally, image science, to discuss issues associated with collecting, archiving, transferring, visualizing, and analyzing image data."
  
  
• Crew System Ergonomics Information Analysis Center "The Crew System Ergonomics Information Analysis Center (CSERIAC) is the gateway to worldwide sources of up-to-date human factors information for designers, engineers, researchers, and human factors specialists."
  
  
• GE R&D Center : Automated Access Path Generation, "The software, Product Vision (PV), works with data sets from conventional CAD/CAM software to calculate an access path for a given part and displays this path within the 3D animation environment provided by the PV software." Magnetic Imaging "We have developed two realtime data acquisition, filtering, visualization, and archiving systems for use in a new medical modality, magnetic source imaging (MSI)."
  
  
• MIR: IEEE-Transactions on Medical Imaging Tables of Contents of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (not full text).
  
  
• Biomedical Visualization IEEE Symposium on Frontiers in Biomedical Visualization (BioMed Vis 95) Atlanta, Georgia, Monday, October 30, 1995
  
  
• Federal Aviation Agency, Civil Aeromedical Institute Search Form - Old Database
  NASA, Human Factors Research - Old Database
  
  
• Book : Ergonomic Models of Anthropometry, Human Biomechanics, and Operator-Equipment Interfaces (not very pretty, but some good information)
  
  
• VALIDATION OF SPIRAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY AND OPTICAL SURFACE SCANNING FOR 3D LIMB PROSTHESIS DESIGN, MIR Surface Imaging Group, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine
  
  
• University of Pennsylvania :
  
  
  • 650 Practicum in Laboratory Techniques of Physical Anthropology Huss-Ashmore or Johnston. Advanced laboratory training in technical procedures in physical anthropology. Anthropometry (including osteometry and measures of body composition), radiography, serology, human identification from fragmentary materials and automatic data processing
    
    
  • Building Anthropometry-Based Virtual Human Models,'' Francisco Azuola, Norman I. Badler, Pei-Hwa Ho, Ioannis Kakadiaris, Dimitri Metaxas, and Bond-Jay Ting, Proc. of IMAGE VII Conference, Tucson, AZ, 1994.