Editing 3D Body Measurement on a Smartphone

<blockquote>Hi, I’m Nell Watson. I run a company called Poikos which I founded. We enable you to measure your body in 3-D on a smart phone, tablet in a couple of seconds. Now I set off on a journey to enable mass customization. So that’s being able to customize goods, make stuff that perfectly suited to you cheaply and affordably and I found it was pretty difficult because of all the troubles of getting measurements in. how can you configure something if you don’t have the specifications.  

<blockquote>Hi, I’m Nell Watson. I run a company called Poikos which I founded. We enable you to measure your body in 3-D on a smart phone, tablet in a couple of seconds. Now I set off on a journey to enable mass customization. So that’s being able to customize goods, make stuff that perfectly suited to you cheaply and affordably and I found it was pretty difficult because of all the troubles of getting measurements in. how can you configure something if you don’t have the specifications.  

So this is the web base version. This is running in Flash. We ask the user to put in their height. The user stands about three meter back from the device. They’re guided into position just using the camera, watching the screen three, two, one, one shot is taken from the front. And then turn to the side, three, two, one, one shot is taken from the side. Front, side, that all it is. Two snapshots very simple, then the cleaver bit.

So this is the web base version. This is running in Flash. We ask the user to put in their height. The user stands about three meter back from the device. They’re guided into position just using the camera, watching the screen three, two, one, one shot is taken from the front. And then turn to the side, three, two, one, one shot is taken from the side. Front, side, that all it is. Two snapshots very simple, then the cleaver bit.

Then we recombine those two images in the cloud in a couple of seconds, we use image segmentation to cut out the edge of the person, which is easy for people and hard for machines.  

Then we recombine those two images in the cloud in a couple of seconds, we use image segmentation to cut out the edge of the person, which is easy for people and hard for machines.  

So we took it into mass customization and we took it into retail and that was cool, happily ever after. But then I realized something. I realized that when you take measurements you’re actually taking a snapshot of history. So I started using our technology to measure my own body. And I measured how it changed over time because my body grew as my body shrank, and I found it very very powerfully motivating to see an ideal version of me. same structure and less body weight, and I lost 15 kilograms in five months using our system.

So we took it into mass customization and we took it into retail and that was cool, happily ever after. But then I realized something. I realized that when you take measurements you’re actually taking a snapshot of history. So I started using our technology to measure my own body. And I measured how it changed over time because my body grew as my body shrank, and I found it very very powerfully motivating to see an ideal version of me. same structure and less body weight, and I lost 15 kilograms in five months using our system.

There’s the proof, the before on the left and after on the right. so this technology for mass customization for retail, I though wow, I wonder what other people would be interested in this, and then I discovered not just six or seven weeks ago that QS, Quantified Self, like lots of people around the world are doing this stuff, and I thought it was just me, wow!

There’s the proof, the before on the left and after on the right. so this technology for mass customization for retail, I though wow, I wonder what other people would be interested in this, and then I discovered not just six or seven weeks ago that QS, Quantified Self, like lots of people around the world are doing this stuff, and I thought it was just me, wow!

Something else which I think is really interesting is that we don’t just take measurements, but we take volumes of the body and that’s something that’s pretty difficult to do. But if you have data like we can generate and you cross reference that with MRI data, then you can look inside the body and get a virtual MRI on a smart phone.

Something else which I think is really interesting is that we don’t just take measurements, but we take volumes of the body and that’s something that’s pretty difficult to do. But if you have data like we can generate and you cross reference that with MRI data, then you can look inside the body and get a virtual MRI on a smart phone.

Now it’s low-fidelity and we’ve had to create all kinds of technology in order to boost it. Even though you know the pictures maybe crap, we can take pretty good measurements from it.  

Now it’s low-fidelity and we’ve had to create all kinds of technology in order to boost it. Even though you know the pictures maybe crap, we can take pretty good measurements from it.