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This paper analyse and compare the methods to detect and represent the human symmetry line. In the last years, the development of 3D scanners has allowed to replace the traditional techniques (marking based methods) with modern methodologies that, starting from a 3D valid discrete geometric model of the back, perform the posture and vertebral column detection based on a complex processing of the acquired data. The purpose of the paper is a critical discussion of the state of the art in order to highlight real potentialities and limitations of the most important methodologies proposed for human symmetry line detection.
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Cappetti, N., Naddeo, A. On methods to identify the symmetry line of human back. Int J Interact Des Manuf 12, 1265–1271 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12008-018-0503-7
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