Linear Regression vs. Deep Learning: A Simple Yet Effective Baseline for Human Body Measurement.

Journal: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
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Abstract

We propose a linear regression model for the estimation of human body measurements. The input to the model only consists of the information that a person can self-estimate, such as height and weight. We evaluate our model against the state-of-the-art approaches for body measurement from point clouds and images, demonstrate the comparable performance with the best methods, and even outperform several deep learning models on public datasets. The simplicity of the proposed regression model makes it perfectly suitable as a baseline in addition to the convenience for applications such as the virtual try-on. To improve the repeatability of the results of our baseline and the competing methods, we provide guidelines toward standardized body measurement estimation.

Authors

  • Kristijan Bartol
    Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
  • David Bojanić
    Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
  • Tomislav Petković
    Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
  • Stanislav Peharec
    Peharec Polyclinic for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 52100 Pula, Croatia.
  • Tomislav Pribanić
    Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.