{"id":2004,"date":"2015-01-04T01:01:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T17:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2015-01-04T01:04:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T17:04:43","slug":"virtual-shoe-fitting-experiment-with-kinect-v2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/?p=2004","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Shoe Fitting Experiment with Kinect v2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='640' height='360' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mWUiO0tOlfA?rel=0&amp;fs=1' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalbuzzblog.com\/goertz-augmented-reality-virtual-shoe-fitting-store-instaLlation\/\" title=\"More details\" target=\"_blank\">virtual shoe fitting store from Goertz<\/a> in 2012 is quite impressing. They used 3 original Kinects. I decided to make my virtual shoe fitting application with a Kinect v2 last month. It&#8217;s still something rare, though we&#8217;ve seen many virtual dressing room demos.<\/p>\n<p>I placed the Kinect low on a box, so it can capture my feet only. In this case, we can see more details of the shoe. But, I&#8217;ll need to write my own feet tracking algorithm as the original body tracking won&#8217;t work. This is one of the big challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Another challenge is that I need to hide some parts of the shoes that covered by my feet. If you&#8217;ve ever tried implementing the virtual dressing room, you&#8217;ll also face this problem. Using single-sided materials is one of the solutions. But it won&#8217;t work in some cases and it&#8217;s flawed. For some reasons, I&#8217;d keep my solution private. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the application doesn&#8217;t work very well due to the CPU capability and the current algorithm. But I enjoy the process of making it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The virtual shoe fitting store from Goertz in 2012 is quite impressing. They used 3 original Kinects. I decided to make my virtual shoe fitting application with a Kinect v2 last month. It&#8217;s still something rare, though we&#8217;ve seen many &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/?p=2004\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kinect","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}