Request of information for Research project

[Madhiadrien]

Hello all,

I am a PhD student working on a research project which is intended to help clinician saving more burn patients. I choose the MakeHuman software to help me achieve my need for my Ph.D project which I trust entirely. Here is a short description of my project if you want: http://substance-en.etsmtl.ca/clinicians-save-burn-victims/

First of all, I'd like to thanks the MakeHuman development team for doing such a wonderful software!

Since all my Ph.D. depends on the MakeHuman software, I would be thankful to you if you could help me regarding some questions:

- In your published paper entitled "Ideas and methods for modeling 3D human figures", you mention in the first page that "The development of MH comes from a detailed technical and artistic study of the morphological characteristics of the human body which we shall not cover in this paper". I would be really grateful to have the paper or more information about this point. It would strengthen my choice regarding the use of the MakeHuman software.

- In the parametric modelling from anthropometric measures, I understood the morphing targets allow the modelling of the model but how do you manage the correlation between each morphing target. For example, why the increased of the waist circumference will increase as well the hips and underbust circumference ? On which decision did you choose to create correlation between each measures ? Because from my statistical study, most of the measures are correlated among themselves. Did you based your modelling algorithme on real data? Or on statistical study ?

- I have the same question regarding the proportion of muscle/weight. What made you choose these proportions ?

- We know the software is under LGPL license and be sure we will respect it. Just as a question, for further studies, would you consider a collaboration for the marketing of a web application including the MakeHuman modelling ?

Every years, burned people die because of a bad management. With the MakeHuman software, this project has a chance to save more people!

Thank you all !

[joepal]

Unfortunatly, none of the authors of that paper remain in the MH project. It would be better to ask these questions of them directly. I'll send you a PM with an email address which is probably still valid for one of the authors.

The license of MakeHuman is AGPL, not LGPL. This usually prevents commercial spinoffs. Not because they'd be prohibited, but because the end product must be shared as a whole even if only used as a web service.

[Madhiadrien]

Thank you for your quick reply Joepal !

Hope I will received meanwhile !

Have a nice day !

[duststorm]

That's a very interesting application of MakeHuman

[Madhiadrien]

Hello all,

Thanks Duststorm!

It is possible for the actual MakeHuman development team to give me an answer to my questions ? They are essential for the project.

The only information interesting I've found is on this wikipedia webpage on MakeHuman: http://taggedwiki.zubiaga.org/new_content/37855281047dcd0d04c29b94bad9536e and this one https://80.lv/articles/makehuman-interview/

It is mention that the MakeHuman modelling system of mixing is based on Sheldon's anthropometric technics (endomorph, mesomorph, ectomorph) and that MakeHuman is based on a big database of human shapes (over 3000 morphings). Do you have any more information regarding this database and the modelling system ?

Thank you all to help me! I'm kind of desperate...

[joepal]

Unfortunately, it seems as if the introduction video concerning the target system has vanished from Vimeo, but you can read more about the targets here: http://www.makehumancommunity.org/wiki/ ... _target%3F

The targets as such are included in the makehuman source code. There are currently 1258 defined targets (in the core distro.. There are user contributed ones in the user repo too)

You can find the targets as such at https://bitbucket.org/MakeHuman/makehum ... at=default

The articles and the philosophy behind them was before my time.

[brkurt]

Unfortunately, it seems as if the introduction video concerning the target system has vanished from Vimeo, but you can read more about the targets here: http://www.makehumancommunity.org/wiki/ ... _target%3F

The targets as such are included in the makehuman source code. There are currently 1258 defined targets (in the core distro.. There are user contributed ones in the user repo too)

You can find the targets as such at https://bitbucket.org/MakeHuman/makehum ... at=default

The articles and the philosophy behind them was before my time.

I remember downloading a pdf back in 2006 concerning why the original Makehuman mesh was placed in a foetal position; the document also included a very technical discussion (for me at the time) about the medical accuracy of the proposed mesh.

[Madhiadrien]

Thanks Joepal ! I'll check the link you gave me. I've been trying to find information inside the source code, especially about the mapping dependancies. Maybe I'll find something.

Brkurt if you could remember the title or anything to help me finding this paper would be great !

[kha]

Hi all,

I know this one is an old post but I'm interested in the information that the OP is looking for too. If anyone can share documentation/reference/resource, it would be very useful for me.

Thanks,