Surface area calculation using Kinect´s filtered point cloud with an application of burn care

This paper presents surface area calculation using point cloud from Kinect. The point cloud from Kinect is erroneous due to characteristics of this low cost device. Applying marching cube directly from such this point cloud, the resulting triangular mesh has multiple layers; despite the fact that their original surface has only one layer. In this paper, we bypass marching cube, which is ineffective when used with Kinect as mentioned, and calculate an area size directly using quadrangular mesh. The resulting area calculation is more precise. We even make the precision higher by filtering the point cloud using a spatial filter. We aim to apply this method for humans´ burn area ratio calculation.