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Complete 3D Foot Scanning System Using 360 Degree Rotational and Translational Laser Triangulation Sensors

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This paper proposes a new type of 3D foot scanning system using rotational and translational 3D scanning stages. Commercial 3D foot scanning systems (or scanners) mostly employ the laser triangulation method and three or more linear stages to scan the entire 3D shape of the foot. We introduce a new foot scanning method using only two laser-camera triangulation sensors. The proposed scanning system consists of a 360° rotational and a linear translational 3D sensors. The rotational sensor employs two line lasers with a vision camera to solve an occlusion problem of the rotational stage and acquires the 3D shape of the upper part of the foot. The translational sensor consists of a line laser and a vision camera and acquires the 3D shape of the foot sole. The performance of the proposed scanning technique is verified using plastic models and human feet. In average, about 0.5 mm reconstruction accuracy is obtained by the proposed technique.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungpook National University, 80 Daehak-ro, Puk-gu, Daegu, 41566, Korea

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  2. School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, 80 Daehak-ro, Puk-gu, Daegu, 41566, Korea

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This work was supported by the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE, Korea) under Industrial Technology Innovation Program. No. 20003739.

Ju-hwan Lee received his B.S. degree in the Department of Information and Communication from Dongguk University, Korea in 2011. He was a Research Engineer at Korea Institute of Robotics and Technology Convergence from 2011 to 2015 and his M.S. degree in the School of Computer Science and Engineering from Kyungpook National University, Korea in 2017. He is currently working toward a Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering at Kyungpook National University, Korea. His research interests include robot vision, 3D sensing, and SLAM.

Min-jae Lee received his B.S. degree in the Department of Computer Engineering from Keimyung University, Korea in 2016 and his M.S. degree in the School of Computer Science and Engineering from Kyungpook National University, Korea in 2018. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University. His research interests include stereo vision, 3D scanning.

Soon-Yong Park received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics engineering from Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, in 1991 and 1999, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2003. From 1993 to 1999, he was a senior research staff at KAERI, Korea. He is currently a professor in the School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Korea. His research interests include 3D sensing and modeling, Multi-view 3D data processing.

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Lee, Jh., Lee, Mj. & Park, SY. Complete 3D Foot Scanning System Using 360 Degree Rotational and Translational Laser Triangulation Sensors. Int. J. Control Autom. Syst. 19, 3013–3025 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-020-0147-9

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