Measuring Surface Distances on Human Bodies

An apparatus for measuring surface distances on human bodies, the apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory comprising computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least:

• receive a point cloud representing a surface shape of a scanned human body;
• generate a registered mesh of the surface shape of the scanned human body by registering a template mesh, representing a reference shape of a human body, onto the point cloud, wherein the template mesh comprises predefined measurement paths, and wherein the registered mesh also comprises the predefined measurement paths;
• generate raw measurement results using the predefined measurement paths, wherein each raw measurement result in the raw measurement results corresponds to a measurement path in the predefined measurement paths;
• and
• calculate, using non-linear support vector regression, at least one measurement result corresponding to a surface distance on the scanned human body using the raw measurement results.