PolyU research boosts garment fit and performance for sports and medical apparel with groundbreaking anthropometric method to precisely measure tissue deformation

PolyU researchers led by Prof. Joanne Yip have unveiled an image-recognition-based anthropometric system that tracks soft-tissue deformation during motion with ≤ 2.4 mm error, couples it to a Boussinesq analytical model and links garment pressure to tissue response. Validated on sports leggings and readily plugged into everyday CAD/CAM workflows, the low-cost, motion-capture-free technology gives designers and medical manufacturers a data-driven route to personalize compression sportswear and clinical garments for better fit, performance and injury prevention.