Conference
Next event: 3DBODY.TECH 2024, Lugano, Switzerland, 22-23 Oct. 2024
Conference topics
The technical program consist of oral presentations and live demonstrations in, but not limited to, the following technical areas:
- 3D & 4D body and 3D & 4D face scanning methods, systems and technologies
- 3D body processing methods and technologies
- 3D body modeling, 3D body visualization, 3D body printing methods and technologies
- Active 3D body scanning technologies (laser scanning, white-light scanning, RGB-D)
- Passive body scanning methods (stereo photogrammetry, visual-hull)
- Portable and hand-held human body scanning and measurement devices
- Full body scanning systems for the apparel and fashion sector
- Applications in medical sciences (plastic surgery, orthotics, prosthetics, forensics, etc.)
- Foot scanning, custom footwear and orthopedics
- Digital anthropometry, anthropometric studies
- Body measurement campaigns, fitting mannequins
- Biometrics and applications in security
- Applications in sport, health and fitness
- Human body and face modeling, animation and simulation
- Applications in virtual life, games and entertainment
- 3D body scanning for arts, sculpture and 3D printing
Download the call for registrations: callforregistrations (PDF file, 1.3MB).
Please note that registration is required for all attendees and participants of the conference and exhibition. Information about registration and fees is available here.
Technical program
Preliminary outline of the conference program (click to enlarge).
The program of the conference is available as PDF file: 3dbody2017_program.pdf.
Program of the conference (click to download).
The program of the conference will be structured, during two full days, in an opening session, 14 technical sessions in dual track and a poster session, accommodating in total about 70 scientific and technical presentations, grouped according to various topics and application areas.
The parallel technical exhibition will allow manufacturers of scanning equipment to demonstrate live their products and solutions to all attendees/visitors/participants: exhibition.
Breaks and social events are planned in order to increase the possibilities for building relationships and exchanging ideas between attendees, visitors, authors, participants and exhibitors.
Coffee breaks will take place in the morning and afternoon, lunch boxes will be distributed to all attendees during lunch breaks and a welcome drink will be offered after the last session of the first day of the conference.
The dual-track technical sessions, the poster session, the live demonstrations, the technical exhibition and the breaks will take place in adjacent spaces on the floor level C (2 floors below the lobby) at Plaza Centre-Ville by Evo Vieux-Montreal. More information about the venue: venue. (Click the image below to enlarge it).
The books of abstracts of the conference is available as PDF file:
3dbody2017_bookofabstracts.pdf.
Note: many presentations featured in the program of the conference do not have abstracts and/or papers.
Highlights at the Conference - Opening Session & Technical Exhibition
During the opening sessions, OEMs participating at the technical exhibition will shortly announce and present their new developments, new products, new solutions, new results.
The technical exhibition takes place in parallel to the conference: manufacturers, developers and institutions demonstrate live 3D body scanning systems, software solutions and applications. The visitors of the exhibition have the possibility to test live the systems and to meet and discuss directly with the exhibitors: technical exhibition.
3dMD (USA/UK) - World Premiere
3dMD will present for the first time at the exhibition various new products and solutions. At the opening session, Chris Lane, CEO of 3dMD, will introduce for the first time the new 3dMDface.t desktop - High volume capture of facial movements to support custom faceware products.
Size Stream (USA) - North America & World Premieres
Size Stream will exhibit for the first time in North America the new Size Stream SS20 3D Body Scanner which incorporates 20 new higher quality 3D sensors for 2017 and with additional features as invisible CPU, new integrated internal touch screen with dual monitor capabilities, no-visible-cables design, new optional 5-minutes-setup/install configuration.
Size Stream will presents the following world premieres (first time world wide):
1. Aspirational Avatar: Size Stream can automatically modify your 3D body scan to your aspirational state of weight and fitness level, as a new motivational tool for your fitness program.
2. New static and animated Avatar configurations for automatic use with virtual fashion applications.
3. New DEXA correlated bodyfat computation, including weight from volume.
4. New IOS/Android App for WiFi direct transfer of data from the SS20 3D body scanner, with measurement tracking (Aspirational Avatar feature is in this app).
botspot (Germany) - World Premiere
Mr Manfred Ostermeier, CEO of botspot, will introduce at the opening session "A milestone for medicine: The cooperation between botspot and the world's largest prosthesis manufacturer".
Instituto de Biomecánica de Valencia IBV (Spain)
Ms Rosa Porcar, Director of International Business Development of the Instituto de Biomecanica de Valencia of the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, at the opening session will introduce "High Quality Data-driven 3D reconstruction - IBV Capabilities".
Styku (USA)
Mr Raj Sareen, CEO of Styku, will introduce at the opening session the newest Styku S400 3D Full Body Scanner with 4 Intel RealSense Cameras. The Styku S400 will be demonstrated at the technical exhibition.
Vitronic (Germany)
Vitronic will shortly introduce at the opening session high-precision, fast and colored 3D measurement of the human body with the VITUS BODYSCAN.
Human Solutions of North America (USA)
Mr Tim Guenzel, Manager Body Scanning at Human Solutions of North America, will introduce at the opening session "Scanning is just the beginning...Software makes the difference".
Highlights at the Conference - Live Demonstrations
Live demonstrations of 3D body scanning systems, software solutions and applications will be performed during the poster session.
3D Body Cloud (Belgium)
Dr Yannick Francken, CEO of 3D Body Cloud, will demonstrate Cloud Services for Processing 3D Full Body Scans.
Nathon Kong (Canada)
The founder of NATHON KONG label, Mr Nathon Kong, will invite you to see its special truck (parked at the entrance of the venue) Tailor2Go - A Mobile Boutique, Solar-Powered and Fully Integrated with a Built-in 3D Body Scanner. Mr Nathon Kong, will also held the presentation titled "Nathon Kong: From 3D Scan to Branding Journey" at Technical Session 2 - Body Scanning for Apparel I.
Occipital Inc. (USA)
Mr Mark Piszczor, Developer Program Manager for Occipital, will demonstrate Structure Sensor & SDK - The Spatial Computing & 3D Scanning Solution for Mobile. Structure SDK includes high-level APIs that provides developers with a stable, easy-to-use, and flexible for creating iOS applications in Xcode which leverage advanced computer vision capabilities and techniques. Structure SDK can also be used out of the box with sample code to integrate with iOS SceneKit.
Highlights at the Conference - Research & Innovation, OEMs & Solution Providers
Universities, research institutions and private firms will present research works and innovations at the conference, as well as, manufacturers and solution providers will present their 3D scanning systems, solutions and applications. A selection is featured here.
Novaptus Systems & The Hague Center for Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery (USA)
The CEO of Novaptus Systems, Mr David B. Stefan, will present the paper titled "The Usefulness of a 3D Whole-Body Scanner for Uncommon Cosmetic Surgery Procedures" at Technical Session 1 - Full Body Scanning in Medicine & Health and the paper titled "3D Body Scanning - An Important Tool for Digital Archiving of Cosmetic Surgery Procedures" at Technical Session 5: Medical Applications I.
Select Research Ltd (UK), Mayo Clinic (USA)
Rechard Barnes, CEO of Select Research and Dr Jose Medina-Inojosa, Research Fellow at the Dept. of Cardiovascular Medicine, Division of Preventive Cardiology, of Mayo Clinic will jointly held the presentation titled "3-D Body Volume Measurements for Cardio-Metabolic Risk Sssessment" at Technical Session 1 - Full Body Scanning in Medicine & Health.
Leipzig University (Germany)
Dr Henry Löffler-Wirth, research group leader of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioinformatics at Leipzig University will present the paper titled "Exploration of Human Ageing by 3D-Laser Scanning Anthropometry" at Technical Session 1 - Full Body Scanning in Medicine & Health.
Cornell University (USA), Izmir University of Economics (Turkey)
Prof Dr Susan P. Ashdown of the Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design of Cornell University will present the paper titled "From 3D Scans to Haptic Models: Apparel Design with Half Scale Dress Forms" at Technical Session 2 - Body Scanning for Apparel I and the paper titled "Reimagining Design of Golf Clothing: Addressing the Asymmetrical Pose" at Technical Session 4 - Body Scanning for Apparel II.
The University of Manchester (UK)
The School of Materials of the University of Manchester will present the paper titled "Not All Body Scanning Measurements Are Valid: Perspectives from Pattern Practice" at Technical Session 2 - Body Scanning for Apparel I.
The University of Texas at Austin (USA), The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (USA), Xi'an Polytechnic University (China), University of Houston (USA)
The Department of Biomedical Engineering of the University of Texas at Austin will present the paper titled "Correspondence of Breast Measurements for Bra Design After Reconstruction Surgery" at Technical Session 4 - Body Scanning for Apparel II.
Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy), Istituto Neurologico C. Besta (Italy), Istituto Neurologico C. Mondino (Italy)
Dr Valentina Pucciarelli of the Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health of the Università degli Studi di Milano will present the paper titled "Three-Dimensional StereophotogrammetricAnalysis of Adults Affected by DravetSyndrome" at Technical Session 5 - Medical Applications I.
University of Houston (USA), The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (USA), The University of Texas at Austin (USA)
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Houston will present the paper titled "Quantitative Analysis of Localized Changes in Breast Shape" at Technical Session 5 - Medical Applications I.
Technical Session 6: 3D Full Body Scanning Systems I
Dr David Bruner, VP & CTO of Size Stream, Mr Chris Lane, CEO of 3dMD, and Human Solutions will present their 3D full body scanning solutions at Technical Session 6.
University of Berkeley (USA)
Dr Alessandra Tursi of the HART Lab (Human-Assistive Robotic Technologies Lab) of the University of Berkeley will present the paper titled "Automatic Detection of Body Landmarks in Human Body Scans - Lower Limb Analysis for Biomedical and Footwear Applications" at Technical Session 7 - Anthropometry & Scan Data Processing.
Defence Research and Development Canada (Canada), Department of National Defence (Canada), Vrije University Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
The Toronto Research Centre of Defence Research and Development Canada will present the paper titled "NATO Research Task Group: 3D Scanning for Clothing Fit and Logistics" at Technical Session 8 - 3D Technologies for Apparel I.
The University of Manchester (UK)
The School of Materials of the University of Manchester will present the paper titled "Online Virtual Fit is not yet Fit for Purpose: An Analysis of Fashion eCommerce Interfaces" at Technical Session 8 - 3D Technologies for Apparel I.
Instituto de Biomecánica de Valencia IBV (Spain)
The Instituto de Biomecánica de Valencia of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia will present the paper titled "Fast, Portable and Low-Cost 3D Foot Digitizers: Validity and Reliability of Measurements" at Technical Session 8 - 3D Technologies for Apparel I.
CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology (Czech Republic)
Mr Adam Chromy of the Cybernetics in Material Science Research Group at the Central European Institute of Technology will present the paper titled "Three-dimensional Thermal Imaging in Medicine" at Technical Session 9 - Medical Applications II.
Technical Session 10: 3D Full Body Scanning Systems II
Mr Raj Sareen, CEO of Styku, Mr Manfred Ostermeier, CEO of botspot, and VITRONIC will present their 3D full body scanning solutions at Technical Session 10.
PNNL - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (USA)
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will present the paper titled "New Improvements to Millimeter-Wave Body Scanners" at Technical Session 11 - Body Scanning with Clothes on.
University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg), Suez Canal University (Egypt), Artec Europe (Luxembourg)
Mr Alexandre Saint of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability, and Trust of the University of Luxembourg will present the paper titled "Towards Automatic Human Body Model Fitting to a 3D Scan" at Technical Session 11 - Body Scanning with Clothes on.
EFI Optitex (Israel/USA)
EFI Optitex will held the presentation titled "The Digital (R)evolution -Solutions to Drive through Tumults Times" at Technical Session 12 - 3D Technologies for Apparel II.
Point Vision LLC (USA), Size Stream LLC USA), Occipital Inc. (USA), EFI Optitex (USA), STEFANKA (Canada)
Mr Stephen Crossland, co-founder and head of business development of Point Vision, will moderate the panel discussion titled "Retail & 3D Tech: Bridging the Gap", with Mr Joe Dixon, CEO of Size Stream, Mr Mark Piszczor, Developer Program Manager for Occipital, Ms Sabrina Cove, Senior Account Manager at EFI Optitex and Ms Elizabeth Stefanka, founder of Stefanka Technologies, at Technical Session 12 - 3D Technologies for Apparel II.
Gneiss Concept (USA), Intel Israel ltd (Israel), Intel Corp (USA), Instituto de Biomecanica Valencia (Spain)
Ms Carol McDonald, member of the IEEE Standards Associations Group on 3D Body Processing will present the paper titled "Working Group Progress for IEEE P3141 -Standard for 3D Body Processing" at Technical Session 14 - 3D Body Processing & Size Surveys.
Proceedings
The proceedings of the conference (ISBN 978-3-033-06436-2, doi:10.15221/17) are available in digital form (html structure and PDF files) on USB-flash drive or FTP download.
The cost of the proceedings is 50CHF. For orders, please contact the conference office.
The contents of the proceedings is available as PDF file.
All the submitted abstracts and papers are available at the website proc.3dbody.tech, which is dedicated to the proceedings of the serie of conferences and workshops on 3D Body Scanning & Processing Technologies.
The books of abstracts of the conference is available as PDF file:
3dbody2017_bookofabstracts.pdf.
Note: many of the presentations featured in the program of the conference do not have abstracts and/or papers.
Participants
The following institutions, universities, private companies and organizations are participating actively at the conference with presentations and/or live demonstrations.
 Hometrica Consulting (Switzerland) |
 Bespokify (Hong Kong) |
 The University of Manchester (UK) |
 Anatomi Metrix (Canada) |
 Size Stream (USA) |
 Jiangnan University (China) |
 Zhejiang Sci-Tech University (China) |
 Jinling Institute of Technology (China) |
 Ryerson University (Canada) |
 National Institute of Technology Jalandhar (India) |
 University of Birjand (Iran) |
 University of Michigan (USA) |
 Instituto de Biomecànica de Valencia (Spain) |
 Elasizer (Russia) |
 BodiData (USA) |
 University of Zagreb (Croatia) |
 Gneiss Concept (USA) |
 Intel (USA) |
 IEEE SA (USA) |
 Gdansk University of Technology (Poland) |
 CEITEC Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic) |
 PROFACTOR (Austria) |
 Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy) |
 IRCCS Policlinico San Donato (Italy) |
 Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta (Italy) |
 Istituto Neurologico Casimiro Mondino (Italy) |
 Polytechnique Montréal (Canada) |
 CHU Saint-Justine (Canada) |
 Concordia University (Canada) |
 Southwest University (China) |
 The University of Texas at Austin (USA) |
 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (USA) |
 Xi'an Polytechnic University (China) |
 University of Houston (USA) |
 Shape Analysis (UK) |
 University of Berkeley (USA) |
 Izmir University of Economics (Turkey) |
 Cornell University (USA) |
 Kyoto Womens University (Japan) |
 University of Newcastle (Australia) |
 Defence Research and Development Canada (Canada) |
 Department of National Defence (Canada) |
 Sizing Science (The Netherlands) |
 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong) |
 Vitronic (Germany) |
 Human Solutions (Germany) |
 Nathon Kong (Canada) |
 Styku (USA) |
 EFI Optitex (USA) |
 Shenzhen University (China) |
 Shenzhen ESUN (China) |
 Warsaw University of Technology (Poland) |
 Textile Research Institute (Poland) |
 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (USA) |
 Leipzig University (Germany) |
 Novaptus Systems (USA) |
 The Hague Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery Center (USA) |
 University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg) |
 Suez Canal University (Egypt) |
 Artec 3D (Luxembourg) |
 3dMD (UK/USA) |
 University of Malaya (Malaysia) |
 University Teknologi MARA (Malaysia) |
 ESG University of Quebec in Montreal (Canada) |
 botspot (Germany) |
 Select Research (UK) |
 Mayo Clinic (USA) |
 Stefanka (Canada) |
 Point Vision (USA) |
 Medcore (Poland) |
 University at Buffalo - SUNY (USA) |
 University of Tartu (Estonia) |
 Vrije University Amsterdam (The Netherlands) |
 3D Body Cloud (Belgium) |
 Occipital (USA) |
 TechMed 3D (Canada) |
Attendees
Representatives from the following institutions, universities, private companies and organizations are attending/participating/visiting the conference and/or exhibition.
Note: list (alphabetical order) updated continously.
| 3D Body Cloud, Belgium |
| 3dMD Ltd, USA/UK |
| adidas AG, Germany |
| adidas Future Team, USA |
| Anatomi Metrix, Canada |
| Arte e Architettura A.D'A., Switzerland |
| Bauerfeind AG, Germany |
| Berkeley University, USA |
| Bespokify, Singapore |
| Body2Garment Solutions, The Netherlands |
| Body Aspect, UK |
| BodiData Inc., USA |
| Bodi.Me, UK |
| botspot GmbH, Germany |
| Boutique Surmesur Inc, Canada |
| Canada Basketball, Canada |
| CEITEC Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic |
| Cirque du Soleil, Canada |
| CLO Virtual Fashion LLC, USA |
| Columbia Sportswear, USA |
| Concordia University, Canada |
| Cornell University, USA |
| Decathlon SA, France |
| Defence Research and Development Canada, Canada |
| DSSPM, Department of National Defence, Canada |
| Eclo Inc., USA |
| École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada |
| EFI Optitex, USA |
| Elasizer, Russia |
| entreDonovan, USA |
| ESG, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada |
| EUVEKA, France |
| Fashion Should Empower, Canada |
| Gdansk University of Technology, Poland |
| Global Scanning a/s, Denmark |
| Gneiss Concept, USA |
| Google Inc, USA |
| Google Inc - ATAP, USA |
| Graupel LLC, USA |
| Grupo ODEM, Mexico |
| Hometrica Consulting, Switzerland |
| Human Solutions GmbH, Germany |
| Human Solutions of North America Inc, USA |
| IEEE-SA, USA |
| Ifolor AG, Switzerland |
| Instituto de Biomecanica de Valencia, Spain |
| Itsme3d Inc., Canada |
| IZBI University Leipzig, Germany |
| Jiangnan University, China |
| KLM Labs Inc, USA |
| Kyoto University, Japan |
| Kyoto Women's University, Japan |
| Life Fitness, USA |
| Logistik Unicorp Inc., Canada |
| Loncar, UK |
| Lululemon, Canada |
| Magic Leap Inc., USA |
| Mayo Clinic, USA |
| Metail, UK |
| Ministry of Defence, The Netherlands |
| Mirage3D Shanghai, China |
| Mojito Studio, Canada |
| Nathon Kong, Canada |
| NetVirta, USA |
| Nike Inc., USA |
| Nomura Research Institute Ltd., Japan |
| Occipital Inc., USA |
| Philips Respironics, USA |
| Photuro 3D, Israel |
| PNNL - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA |
| Point Vision LLC, USA |
| Procter and Gamble, USA |
| PROFACTOR GmbH, Austria |
| QuantaCorp, Belgium |
| Radon Informatique, France |
| Renaissance Golf, USA |
| School of Fashion, Ryerson University, Canada |
| Select Research Ltd, UK |
| Shape Analysis Ltd, UK |
| Shenzhen ESUN Display Co Ltd, China |
| Size Stream LLC, USA |
| Sizify, Canada |
| Software Tailoring, USA |
| Spiral Therapy Inc, USA |
| Staramba SE, Germany |
| Stefanka Inc., Canada |
| Styku LLC, USA |
| Target Corp., USA |
| TechMed3D Inc., Canada |
| Tektronix Inc., USA |
| The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
| The University of Manchester, UK |
| The University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Toray Advanced Computer Solutions Inc., Japan |
| Traiano SRL, Italy |
| Under Armour, USA |
| Universal, Canada |
| Università degli studi di Milano, Italy |
| University of Birjand, Iran |
| University of Houston, USA |
| University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| University of Michigan - Transportation Research Institute, USA |
| University of Newcastle, Australia |
| University of Tartu - IMS Lab, Estonia |
| University of Wollongong, Australia |
| University of Zagreb, Croatia |
| Vestechpro, Canada |
| VITRONIC Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbietungssysteme GmbH, Germany |
| Vorum Corp., Canada |
| Warsaw University of Technology, Poland |
Supporters and Partners
The following oragnizations and companies are supporting or are partners of the conference.
www.hometrica.ch |
esg.uqam.ca |
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| Hometrica Consulting - Dr. Nicola D'Apuzzo (Switzerland) is organizing the series of 3DBODY.TECH conferences and exhibitions. Hometrica Consulting is a leading international consulting firm in the sectors of 3D human body scanning technologies. | The School of Management at the University of Quebec in Montreal is supporting the conference. ESG UQÀM is the main local partner in Montréal of the 3DBODY.TECH 2017 Conference & Expo. | |
www.womenofwearables.com |
www.crossref.org |
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| Women of Wearables (WoW) inspires, supports and connects women in wearable tech, fashion tech, IoT and VR/AR. WoW has a growing global community of female founders, designers, developers, executives, managers, as well as startups, universities, industry partners, accelerators, incubators. | Hometrica Consulting and 3DBODY.TECH are affiliated to CrossRef indexing system. DOI (digital object identification) numbers will be assigned to the single papers published in the proceedings of the conference. | |