SBIR Phase II: Footwear Fitting System for Online Retailers

SBIR 第二阶段：在线零售商的鞋类试穿系统

• 批准号: 1556080
• 负责人: Alex Villanueva
• 金额: $ 74.55万
• 依托单位: Eclo, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-04-01 至 2018-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1556080&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Footwear; Fitting

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is in online retail industry for garments, orthoses and prostheses. Each human body is unique, and the fitting approach is often reduced to trying on products in-store or in-clinic. While this approach works to some level, increasingly more purchases are made online, and a similar trial and error method leads to a high return rate for retailers and a significant time burden for customers. The fitting system Eclo is developing will dramatically reduce the shipping costs for online retailers and increase the convenience for online shoppers. Additionally, the virtual fitting technology will help remove the dependency of companies on brick-and-mortar stores and to reduce the cost of goods by half in some cases. Furthermore, the technology proposed is the key for mass manufacturing of custom garment since all geometric properties of the body will be readily using smartphones. The databases of body scans could also be used for designing better products. Lastly, the shoe scanner in this project requires a small scanner head design for internal volumes; this technology can be tailored to making endoscopes for medical or rescue applications. This project will prepare a virtual fitting system for commercial use in online shoe retail and address a 25% return rate. The virtual fitting system will give online shoppers a size recommendation based on scans of their feet. A foot scanner allows users to obtain a 3D model of their feet by taking a video with a smartphone. This process will be made simple, robust, and user-friendly with the aid of augmented reality. Using smartphone sensors and strategically selecting images from videos will make this process fast and accurate. A shoe scanner scans the inside of shoes and will be upgraded to also scan the outside of shoes. A fitting algorithm will be developed to detect important features on feet and shoes to make size recommendations. A custom device will be made to measure the material properties of shoes to give online shoppers a description of comfort and support levels of shoes. Online shoppers will be given a size recommendation and an in-depth fit description with visual graphics.

小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第二阶段项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是服装、矫形器和假肢的在线零售行业。每个人的身体都是独一无二的，试穿的方法往往简化为在商店或诊所试穿产品。虽然这种方法在一定程度上有效，但越来越多的商品是在网上进行的，类似的试错方法会给零售商带来很高的退货率，给客户带来巨大的时间负担。Eclo正在开发的试衣系统将极大地降低在线零售商的运输成本，并增加在线购物者的便利性。此外，虚拟试衣技术将有助于消除公司对实体店的依赖，并在某些情况下将商品成本降低一半。此外，所提出的技术是大规模生产定制服装的关键，因为人体的所有几何特性都将很容易使用智能手机。人体扫描的数据库也可以用来设计更好的产品。最后，本项目中的鞋子扫描仪需要为内部体积设计一个小型扫描头；这项技术可以量身定做，以制造医疗或救援应用的内窥镜。该项目将准备一个虚拟试穿系统用于在线鞋类零售的商业用途，并解决25%的退货率。虚拟试穿系统将根据扫描的脚部尺寸向在线购物者提供尺寸建议。足部扫描仪允许用户通过智能手机拍摄视频来获得脚部的3D模型。在增强现实的帮助下，这一过程将变得简单、强大和用户友好。使用智能手机传感器并从视频中有策略地选择图像将使这一过程快速而准确。鞋子扫描仪扫描鞋子的内部，并将升级为也扫描鞋子的外部。将开发一种合适的算法来检测脚和鞋子上的重要特征，以提出尺码建议。将制造一种定制设备来测量鞋子的材料属性，为在线购物者提供鞋子舒适度和支撑度的描述。网上购物者将获得尺码建议和详细的合身说明，并提供视觉图形。