Virtual Clothing

We developed a virtual mirror prototype for clothes that uses a dynamic texture overlay method to change the color and a printed logo on a shirt while a user stands in front of the system wearing a prototype shirt with a (line)-pattern. Similar to looking into a mirror when trying on clothes, the same impression is created but for virtually textured garments. The mirror is replaced by a large display that shows the mirrored camera image, for example, the upper portion of a person's body. By estimating the elastic deformations of the cloth from a single camera in the 2D image plane and recovering the illumination of the textured surface of a shirt in real time, an arbitrary virtual texture is realistically augmented onto the moving clothes so that the person appears to be wearing the virtual clothes. The result is a combination of the real video and the new augmented model, which produces a realistic impression of the virtual clothes. The system was honored as Selected Landmark 2009 (Ort im Land der Ideen 2009) by the Germany-Land of Ideas initiative. In the same year the European Association for Self-Service singled out the Virtual Mirror as the most innovative product displayed at the international trade fair Kiosk Europe 2009.

See also the project webpage and the VM on Tour webpage

Videos
Virtual Mirror
Shirt Augmentation
Virtual Clothing Demo Video on the 3DLife YouTube Channel

Selected Publications and Information

A. Hilsmann and P. Eisert : "Tracking and Retexturing Cloth for Real-Time Virtual Clothing Applications", Mirage 2009 - Computer Vision/Computer Graphics Collaboration Techniques and Applications, Rocquencourt, France, May 2009. [pdf]

The Virtual Mirror - Flyer [pdf]

Press (selected)

Reports on TV

Einfach Genial, MDR, 3. March 2009

Morgenmagazin, ZDF, 29. August 2008

Deutsche Welle, 29. August 2008

Ratgeber Technik, ARD, 30. August 2008

Abendschau, RBB, 31. August 2008

neues, 3Sat, 31. August 2008

Mittagsmagazin, ARD, 3.September 2008

Reports on the web

New tech vision at the Ceatec expo, BBC news, 30. October 2009 [URL]

Deutsche Welle: Virtual Fashion Worlds - revolutionizing shopping [URL]

Print

Ingenieurberufe - Zukunft aus dem Zauberspiegel, FAZ, 20. Oktober 2010 [URL]

Als wär's ein Stück von mir, Süddt. Zeitung, 16. September 2008

Virtueller Spiegel ersetzt lästiges Anprobieren, Berliner Morgenpost 15. Aug. 2008

Wissenschaft: Der Spiegel als Schneider, Die Welt, 15. August 2008

Shoppen ohne Anprobieren-Virtueller Spiegel, Frankf. Rundschau, 15. Aug. 2008

Wozu braucht man einen virtuellen Spiegel?, Süddt. Zeitung, 16. Aug. 2008

Das Mode Zauberdisplay, Hamburger Abendblatt, 15. August 2008

Technik-Visionen im Zukunftslabor der IFA, FAZ, 2. September 2008

Radio

Wissenswerte: Forschung im Gespräch, rbb info radio, 25. June 2010 [URL]

Spree Radio Berlin, 4. August 2008

Antenne Brandenburg, 31. August 2008

Deutschland Funk Forschung aktuell, 3. September 2008 [URL]

Deutsche Welle Hörfunk 2. September 2008