In 1976, a Working Group of Commission V, named "Biostereometrics", was first established. In 1988, "Medical imaging" was added to the name, and later, in 2000, the name changed to "Medical image analysis and human motion".

The current name of the ISPRS Working Group V/6 is "Medical image analysis, human motion and body measurements" in order to reflect the wide range of issues involved in what used to be known as "Medical Photogrammetry" from the beginning of the last century.

All these years many efforts have been done to bring together the ever expanding disciplines of Photogrammetry and Computer vision, Digital imaging and Computer graphics, Biomedical and Biomechanical engineering, Medicine, Biometry and Motion analysis.

The aim of this WG is to become a "focal point" for all these interested scientists, who believe that this is a truly interesting discipline and a scientifically very rewarding area with a great importance to the progress and well-being of mankind.

Our activities focus on providing a platform for the exchange of forefront information, state-of-the-art insights, challenging research activities and results, bridging the gap between the disciplines, and the development of collaboration opportunities. We also aim at developing firm scientific alliances among our members, for the benefit of advancing the scientific issues, which are presented in the following Terms-of-References:

• Research and development in techniques and systems for analysis and 3D reconstruction in medical imaging, dentistry, and biomaterial engineering, biomedical and biomechanical engineering, tele-medicine, advanced 3D computer vision techniques and medical VR/AR.
• Research and development in techniques and systems for analysis, 3D reconstruction and applications in sport medicine and fitness (e.g. motion capture, human gait analysis, full body measurement, shape tracking) and face and expression analysis.
• Vision techniques in biometry research, security applications and forensics.
• Applications of 3D surface measurement techniques for medical applications (orthodontics, prosthetics, orthopedics, plastic surgery, reconstructive medicine, forensic medicine, dentistry, ORL, cosmetics).
• Applications of 3D motion capture techniques for clinical motion analysis, registration of patient-specific data.
• Adaptation of photogrammetric techniques for geometric modelling and (self-)calibration of X-ray and tomography systems.
• Cooperation and collaboration between ISPRS and the communities of medical/biomedical engineering, human/user interface development and animation.

Along these lines, everyone, seeking co-operation and contribution to this challenging field is welcomed to join us and to participate in the activities of this WG.

In addition, we advise you to have a look at our WEB page at

If you want to join the WG please send an e-mail to the WG secretary with the following information: title, name, surname, institution, full address, country, institution type, phone and fax numbers, e-mail, web address and please tell us: if you agree with the publication of your address on the WG's webpage, if you want to be active or passive member, and your fields of interest.

Please feel free to pass this information to the colleagues who may be interested in the WG.

We are looking forward to welcome you in our WG.