Creating a Web-based Virtual Fitting Room

In a joint project between AUB's Department of Computer Science (CMPS), the MiraLab at the University of Geneva, and Al-Mehdia Museum in Tunisia, CMPS will receive around $80,000 to help in the improvement of a web-based "Virtual Try on (VTO)" application for the fitting of garments.

In the procedure, a personalized 3D human model bearing the specific measurements of the user is built. The user may then choose a garment from a database and try it on his/her virtual body. The dressed model is animated in a real time simulation of the way cloth usually behaves. Applying this application, samples of historical clothes from the Al-Mehdia Museum will be used.

The CMPS contribution will consist of developing a module that will be integrated in the main VTO system as the basic rendering engine. The module is expected to provide ways to control the level of details in the garment, thus improving the quantity of 3D information that can be transferred between the server and the client.

The CMPS team will consist of Professor Ahmed Nasri (AUB director of the project) and several graduate students, among them Zahra Yassen, Wajih Bou Karam, and Samar Fatayri.