Virtual Dressing Room

Abstract

Shopping for garments is a common activity. A Shopper usually tries on some selected dresses and examines how well they fit .A common practice for this purpose is to queue up and take turns to use the fitting rooms. Due to the limited number of in-store fitting rooms, shoppers usually have to spend most of their shopping time on queuing up. This causes a lot of problems to both the customers and shop keepers. Virtual dressing room is a desktop application using which Shoppers would be able to see the visual image of how they look like by trying on clothes virtually. To use this VDR environment, the customer needs to stand in front of an interactive LED with a Microsoft Kinect sensor mounted on it. Customer can see his/her video on the LED and a menu as well, in which dresses are listed. Customer selects the dress and it will be automatically mapped on his/her avatar Kinect is used to scan the skeletal points of the customer which will be used for dress mapping and size recommendation. The project also includes maintaining a database of the system. This will allow the manager to add, delete or update the dresses. The platform of the project will be Microsoft Windows and it will be developed using C#. The target population of our project includes Shopping malls, clothing stores. It will help the customers to save time and it will also be a help to the handicapped persons who face difficulty in trying out the dress. The scope of our work is limited to 2D mapping of the dress on the user. The user interface design evaluation and final system evaluation have been done carefully to show the system usability. The project purpose is to enhance users’ shopping experiences by using the system, so that they can spend less time on queuing for fitting rooms