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Garment customization means that clients can provide their individual information for creating garments that fit them well. It has become a trend in garment industry. Three-dimensional (3D) methods have been emerging and have proved to be intuitive and effective ways for garment customization. In this paper, we propose a novel 3D garment customization approach based on a feature curve-net. A feature curve-net is weaved by feature curves that are initially extracted from 3D human models and then fitted onto 3D garment models. Three-dimensional garment models are locally parameterized on the feature curve-nets by applying bicubic Coons surface technology. Feature curve-nets created from different human models have the same topology connectivity. Thus, garment models on a reference human model can be transferred onto a target human model by reconstructing the garment models from the feature curve-net on the target human model. The shapes of the customized garment models can be further conveniently altered by interactively editing the feature curve-net. Our method supports both the 3D garment resizing and 3D garment editing, while most existing 3D garment customization methods can only support 3D garment resizing. Our method is flexible and can be useful in garment customization.
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three-dimensional garment customization, feature curve-net, bicubic Coons surface, local parameterization
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Off-the-shelf garments are mostly designed based on standardized human models, which are based on average population sizes. However, people have a much larger variety of shapes and sizes than the standardized ones. Almost everyone has met such a problem that, when she/he enters a big shopping mall, she/he cannot find a garment fitting her/him well. Customers are willing to pay a premium price for products that fit them better1 and they desire to have more control over the fit and design of the garments. Garment customization provides a way to satisfy such customers' desires.
Garment customization aims at using the same production resources to design and produce a variety of similar garments, while satisfying individual demands, at a cost near that of mass production. This is customer rather than production oriented and has been seen as a trend in the garment industry. It was pointed out that there are three varieties in the garment customization, namely personalization, fit and design,2 among which ''fit''...