Feature curve-net-based three-dimensional garment customization

Abstract

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.