We are very happy to announce our participation in the much anticipated
EUROFIT project, which started on the 1st of June 2012.
EUROFIT is an
intensive R&D project with the vision to unleash the huge potential contained in the increasing number
of databases of 3D body scans for the European consumer goods’
industries.
New technologies for the
gathering, storage and analysis of anthropometric data (i.e. 3D scanners) have
boosted the availability of digital anthropometric resources. Since 1999,
over 16 large-scale national body scanning surveys have been conducted around
the world (six in Europe) gathering 3D shape data from over 120,000 subjects
(~50,000 Europeans). The availability of these data pools has created the opportunity
to exploit shape information beyond current 1D-measurement use.
The project's overall aim is
thus to implement an online platform and an open framework that enables:
- Designers and
industrialists to draw useful shape information and use it in their product
development processes in an easy and direct way
- Database owners to pool
the data they already hold and obtain revenues from its exploitation
- Third party IT companies
to develop new services to reuse pooled data in unforeseen ways
