MakeHuman

MakeHuman
Developer(s)The MakeHuman team
Initial release2000; 25 years ago (2000)
Stable release
1.3.0[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 15 May 2024
Repository
Written inPython
Operating systemLinux, Mac OS X, Windows
Type3D computer graphics
LicenseAGPL[2]
Websitewww.makehumancommunity.org

MakeHuman is a free and open source 3D computer graphics middleware designed for the prototyping of photorealistic humanoids. It is developed by a community of programmers, artists, and academics interested in 3D character modeling.

Technology

MakeHuman is developed using 3D morphing technology. Starting from a standard (unique) androgynous human base mesh, it can be transformed into a great variety of characters (male and female), mixing them with linear interpolation. For example, given the four main morphing targets (baby, teen, young, old), it is possible to obtain all the intermediate shapes.

Interpolation of MakeHuman characters: the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th are targets, while the others are intermediate shapes.

Using this technology, with a large database of morphing targets, it's virtually possible to reproduce any character. It uses a very simple GUI in order to access and easily handle hundreds of morphings. The MakeHuman approach is to use sliders with common parameters like height, weight, gender, ethnicity and muscularity. In order to make it available on all major operating systems, beginning from 1.0 alpha 8 it's developed in Python using OpenGL and Qt, with an architecture fully realized with plugins.

The tool is specifically designed for the modeling of virtual 3D human models, with a simple and complete pose system that includes the simulation of muscular movement. The interface is easy to use, with fast and intuitive access to the numerous parameters required in modeling the human form.

The development of MakeHuman is derived from a detailed technical and artistic study of the morphological characteristics of the human body. The work deals with morphing, using linear interpolation of both translation and rotation. With these two methods, together with a simple calculation of a form factor and an algorithm of mesh relaxing, it is possible to achieve results such as the simulation of muscular movement that accompanies the rotation of the limbs.[3]

License

MakeHuman is free and open-source, with the source code and database released under the GNU Affero GPL. Models exported from an official version are released under an exception to this, CC0, in order to be widely used in free and non-free projects. These projects may or may not be commercialised.

Awards

In 2004, MakeHuman won the Suzanne Award as best Blender Python script.[4]

Software history

The ancestor of MakeHuman was MakeHead, a python script for Blender, written by Manuel Bastioni, artist and coder, in 1999. A year later, a team of developers had formed, and they released the first version of MakeHuman for Blender. The project evolved and, in 2003, it was officially recognized by the Blender Foundation and hosted on http://projects.blender.org.[5] In 2004, the development stopped because it was difficult to write a Python script so big using only Blender API. In 2005, MH was moved outside Blender, hosted on SourceForge and rewritten from scratch in C. At this point, version counting restarted from zero. During successive years, the software gradually transitioned from C to C++.

While performant, it was too complex to develop and maintain. Hence, in 2009, the team decided to go back to the Python language (with a small C core) and to release MakeHuman as version 1.0 pre-alpha. Development continued at a pace of 2 releases per year. The stable version 1.0.0 was officially released March 14, 2014. MakeHuman 1.1.0 has been released May 14, 2016, around two years later. The most recent intermediate version is 1.1.1, as of March 5, 2017.[6]

A community website was established in June 2015 featuring a forum section, a wiki, and a repository for user contributed content for the program.[7]

Evolution towards a universal model topology

Evolution of the hand topology
Evolution of the head topology

The aim of the project is to develop an application capable of modeling a wide variety of human forms in the full range of natural poses from a single, universal mesh. For this purpose, the design of a 3D humanoid mesh that can readily be parametrically manipulated to represent anatomical characteristics has been pursued, the mesh includes a common skeleton structure that permits character posing. MakeHuman Team developed a model that combines different anatomical parameters to transition smoothly from the infant to the elderly, from man to woman and from fat to slim.

The initial mesh occupies a middle ground, being neither pronounced masculine, nor pronounced feminine, neither young nor old and having a medium muscular definition. The goal was to depict a fair-built androgynous form, named the HoMunculus. The current MakeHuman mesh has evolved through successive steps of MakeHuman project, incorporating lessons learned, community feedback and the results of considerable amounts of studies and experimentation.

Evolution of the mesh for the human model:

  • A first universal mesh prototype (head only), done in 1999 using makeHead script, was adapted for the early MakeHuman in 2000.
  • The first professional mesh (HM01) for a human model was realized by Enrico Valenza in 2002.
  • A second remarkable mesh (K-Mesh or HM02) was modelled by Kaushik Pal in 2003.
  • The third model was created by Manuel Bastioni upon the Z-Mesh or HM03 in 2005.
  • With experience from preceding versions, a fourth mesh (Y-Mesh or HM04) was done by Gianluca Miragoli (aka Yashugan) in 2007.
  • The fifth mesh (HM05) was built on the previous one by Gianluca Miragoli and Manuel Bastioni in 2008.
  • A sixth mesh (HM06) was also created by Gianluca Miragoli in 2010.
  • Another mesh version was released in 2010 by Waldemar Perez Jr., André Richard, Manuel Bastioni.
  • The latest and state-of-the-art mesh, released in 2013, was modeled by Manuel Bastioni.

Since the first release of makeHead (1999) and MakeHuman (2000), a challenge had been to construct a universal topology that retained all the capabilities but added the ability to interactively adjust the mesh to accommodate anatomical variety found in the human population. This could have been addressed by dramatically increasing the number of vertices for the mesh, but the resultant, dense mesh would have limited performance on processing computers. Technically, the model developed for MakeHuman is:

Research usage

Because of the freedom of the license, MakeHuman software is widely used by researchers for scientific purposes:

MakeHuman mesh is used in industrial design, to verify the anthropometry of a project,[8] and in virtual reality research, to quickly produce avatars from measures or camera views.[9][10][11][12][13][14]

MakeHuman characters are used in biomechanics and biomedical engineering, to simulate the behaviour of the human body under certain conditions or treatments.[15][16][17][18][19] The human character model for a project of the construction of artificial mirror neuron systems[20] was also generated by MakeHuman.

The software was used for visuo-haptic surgical training system development.[21] These simulations combine tactile sense with visual information and provide realistic training scenarios to gain, improve, and assess resident and expert surgeons' skills and knowledge.

Full-body 3D virtual reconstructions have been performed using MakeHuman,[22] and 3D analysis of early Christian burials (archaeothanatology).[23]

The tool has also been used to create characters to perform Sign Language movements.[24][25]

MakeHuman can also be used for nonverbal behavior research, like facial expressions, which involve the use of Facial Action Coding System [26]

See also

  1. ^ "Release Release v1.3.0 · makehumancommunity/makehuman". 15 May 2024. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  2. ^ "The MakeHuman Application". Archived from the original on 2020-01-01. Retrieved 2020-01-01.
  3. ^ M. Bastioni, S. Re, S. Misra. Proceedings of the 1st Bangalore Annual Compute Conference, Compute 2008, 2008 (2008). "Ideas and methods for modeling 3D human figures: The principal algorithms used by MakeHuman and their implementation in a new approach to parametric modeling". Proceedings of the 1st Bangalore Annual Compute Conference. pp. 1–6. doi:10.1145/1341771.1341782. ISBN 9781595939500. S2CID 26241863.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "Interview with MakeHuman: The Future of 3D-character creation tools". 80.lv. 18 February 2015.
  5. ^ Still online, but stopped in 2004: http://projects.blender.org/projects/makeh/ Archived 2013-06-30 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ http://www.makehumancommunity.org/wiki/Releases MakeHuman Release Notes
  7. ^ http://www.makehumancommunity.org/frontpage/welcome_to_the_new_community_site.html Welcome to the new Community Site
  8. ^ V. Verhaert; H. Druyts; D. Van Deun; D. Berckmans; J. Verbraecken; M. Vandekerckhove; J. Vander Sloten. "The use of a generic human model to personalize bed design" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
  9. ^ D. Van Deun; V. Verhaert; K. Buys; B. Haexand; J. Vander Sloten. "Automatic Generation of Personalized Human Models based on Body Measurements" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-20.
  10. ^ K. Buys; D. Van Deun; T. De Laet; H. Bruyninckx. "On-line Generation of Customized Human Models based on Camera Measurements" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-20.
  11. ^ S.Piérard, Marc Van Droogenbroeck (November 2009). A technique for building databases of annotated and realistic human silhouettes based on an avatar.
  12. ^ S. Piérard, A. Leroy, J.F. Hansen, M. Van Droogenbroeck. Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS), Springer (2011). Estimation of human orientation in images captured with a range camera. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 6915. pp. 519–530. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23687-7_47. ISBN 978-3-642-23686-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ O. Mazaný - 2007. "Articulated 3D human model and its animation for testing and learning algorithms of multi-camera systems" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ S. Piérard, A. Lejeune, M. Van Droogenbroeck. 2010. "3D information is valuable for the detection of humans in video streams" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  15. ^ M. Moreno-Moreno; J. Fierrez; R. Vera-Rodriguez; J. Parron. "Simulation of millimeter-wave body images and its application to biometric recognition" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-20.
  16. ^ D. E. van Wyk; J. Connan. "High Quality Flexible H-Anim Hands for Sign Language Visualisation" (PDF).
  17. ^ I. Murtagh. Institute of Technology Blanchardstown Dublin, Ireland. "Developing a Linguistically Motivated Avatar for Irish Sign Language Visualisation" (PDF).
  18. ^ V. F. Cassola, V. J. de Melo Lima, R. Kramer. Physics in medicine, 2009 (2010). "FASH and MASH: female and male adult human phantoms based on polygon mesh surfaces: I. Development of the anatomy" (PDF). Physics in Medicine and Biology. 55 (1): 133–162. Bibcode:2010PMB....55..133C. doi:10.1088/0031-9155/55/1/009. PMID 20009183. S2CID 8506045.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  19. ^ D. Vernez, A. Milon, L. Francioli Jean-Luc Bulliard, L. Vuilleumier, L. Moccozet. Photochemistry and Photobiology Vol. 87, Issue 3, pages 721–728, May/June 2011 (2011). "A numeric model to simulate solar individual ultraviolet exposure" (PDF). Photochemistry and Photobiology. 87 (3): 721–728. doi:10.1111/j.1751-1097.2011.00895.x. PMID 21223287. S2CID 205951798.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  20. ^ E. Lloyd. "An Artificial Mirror Neuron System for Executing and Recognizing Transitive Actions" (PDF).
  21. ^ F.G. Hamza-Lup, C.M. Bogdan, D.M. Popovici, O.D. Costea. eL&mL 2011 : The Third International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning (2011-02-23). A Survey of Visuo-Haptic Simulation in Surgical Training. pp. 57–62. ISBN 9781612081205.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  22. ^ S.L. Davy-Jow, D. Lees, S. Russell. Forensic Science International, 2012 (2013). "Virtual forensic anthropology: Novel applications of anthropometry and technology in a child death case" (PDF). Forensic Science International. 224 (1–3): e7-10. doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2012.11.002. PMID 23201465.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  23. ^ G. Sachau-Carcel. ANTHROPOLOGIE 52/3, 2014. "From Field Recording of plural Burials to 3D Modelling. Evidence from the Catacomb of Sts. Peter and Marcellinus, Italy (with PDF link)".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  24. ^ I. Murtagh - ITB Journal. "Towards a Linguistically Motivated Irish Sign Language Conversational Avatar" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-20. Retrieved 2013-10-19.
  25. ^ I. Achmed, J. Connan - University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, 2010. "Upper body pose estimation towards the translation of South African sign language" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  26. ^ Gilbert, Michaël; Demarchi, Samuel; Urdapilleta, Isabel (2018-11-05). "FACSHuman a Software to Create Experimental Material by Modeling 3D Facial Expression". Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA '18. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 333–334. doi:10.1145/3267851.3267865. ISBN 978-1-4503-6013-5. S2CID 53245564.

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