Adaptable Anatomical Models for Realistic Bone Motion Reconstruction

• Published in: Computer graphics forum Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 459 - 471
• Main Authors: Zhu, Lifeng, Hu, Xiaoyan, Kavan, Ladislav
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2015
• Subjects: Algorithms; Analysis; Anatomy; Anatomy & physiology; Bones; Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS); Human; Human subjects; I.3.3 [Computer Graphics]: Three Dimensional Graphics and Realism-Animation; Image processing systems; Inverse kinematics; Kinematics; Optimization; Preserves; Reconstruction; Studies; Three dimensional models
• ISSN: 0167-7055; 1467-8659
• DOI: 10.1111/cgf.12575

We present a system to reconstruct subject‐specific anatomy models while relying only on exterior measurements represented by point clouds. Our model combines geometry, kinematics, and skin deformations (skinning). This joint model can be adapted to different individuals without breaking its functionality, i.e., the bones and the skin remain well‐articulated after the adaptation. We propose an optimization algorithm which learns the subject‐specific (anthropometric) parameters from input point clouds captured using commodity depth cameras. The resulting personalized models can be used to reconstruct motion of human subjects. We validate our approach for upper and lower limbs, using both synthetic data and recordings of three different human subjects. Our reconstructed bone motion is comparable to results obtained by optical motion capture (Vicon) combined with anatomically‐based inverse kinematics (OpenSIM). We demonstrate that our adapted models better preserve the joint structure than previous methods such as OpenSIM or Anatomy Transfer.