Preliminary Study on Visual Technology in Human Anthropometry Measurement for Automotive Design

ABSTRACT

This paper reviews various papers since the year 2000 until 2016 regarding visual technology in human anthropometrystudy, and discusses three major points; (1) the methods and objectives of the research, (2) the subjects of theexperiments and (3) body parts involved in the anthropometrical measurements. Measurement using visualtechnology is claimed to be more accurate in obtaining anthropometrical data compared to the conventional methodusing manual tools. However, commercial visual technology system can be very costly. Based on the reviewedstudies, a significant amount of research has adopted various visual processing methods to predict the human’s bodymeasurement. All of the studies utilized the applications of enhanced technologies that are able to reduce time andhuman errors that normally occur during traditional hand-operated measurement. Usually, in order to prove thattheir result is promising, the studies compared their results with the results gained from manual measurement. Thefinding from this review is a preliminary step towards developing a camera-based system in anthropometrymeasurement for the use in automotive ergonomics design.