BODY STIMULI

In no particular order....

(please note that you will probably need to seek permission to use these resources)

Resources for body image stimuli are hard to find but there are some very useful data sets out there and yo can build your own (see below). If you know of others then please let us know (all of these worked at the time of collection).

Software Solution

A very easy to use tool from MPI IS Perceiving Systems Department, at Max Plank.

• Body Visualizer - provides a computer morph that can be adjusted on various measures to create body shapes of different heights, weights etc. Female and male. To extract, Copy and past your image.

• You might also wan to check out their data/code: Some cool stuff in there.

For the braver:

No programming required but a bit more fiddly and much more powerful. All of these have videos tutorials and support of one kind or an other.

• Poser 3D - industry standard computer morph generation both free and to pay for. We built the models above using poser.

  • POSER STUDIO - a nice (and free) posable “wooden” model for artists.

• Make Human (open source) tool for making 3D morphs.

• Body visualiser (female and male) from MPI IS Perceiving Systems Department (Max Plank (c) )

• BIOHUMAN BODY SHAPE MODELS - From BioHuman "BioHuman framework aims for intuitive yet accurate 3D manikin generation from a minimal set of parameters. All BioHuman models are based on statistical analyses of high-resolution laser scans and anthropometric measurement data of men, women, and children with a wide range of age, stature, and body weight." contact umtri-bodyshape@umich.edu

• MeshLab is “an open source system for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes.
  It provides a set of tools for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering, texturing and converting meshes. It offers features for processing raw data produced by 3D digitization tools/devices and for preparing models for 3D printing.”

Databases (and the like)

Hard but not impossible these days:

• The Bodily Expressive Action Stimulus Test (BEAST) Curtesy of Beatrice de de Gelder

The BEAST stimuli and validation data can be down loaded from here from here: 

Please make sure that you the following citation/reference, if you use these images:

• CITE: de Gelder, B. & Van den Stock, J. (2011). The Bodily Expressive Action Stimulus Test (BEAST). Construction and validation of a stimulus basis for measuring perception of whole body expression of emotions. Frontiers in Psychology 2:181. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2011.0018.

• Action Database

This is a database of whole  body movement from the Action Perception Laboratory at the University of York. The Data base can be accessed here. Just follow the instructions.

The database contains 29 actors (10 M; 19 F) displaying 6 actions (walking left, sitting, picking up box, placing box, jumping, standing and acting) and 5 emotions (happy, sad, angry, fearful, untrustworthy) from a variety of angles.  Each clip is approximately 3 seconds long

You will need to cite the following reference if you use the database

Cite: Keefe, B.D., Villing, M., Racey, C., Strong, S.M., Wincenciak, J., Barraclough, N.E. (2014) A database of whole-body action videos for the study of action, emotion and untrustworthiness trustworthiness discrimination. Behavior Research Methods doi:10.3758/s13428-013-0439-6

• Moussally et al have a Database of body-only computer-generated pictures of women for body-image studies

The Paper with supplementary stimuli (the bodies)  can be found here:            

Please make sure that you the following citation/reference, if you use these images:

• Cite: Moussally, J. M., Rochat, L., Posada, A., & Van der Linden, M. (2017). A database of body-only computer-generated pictures of women for body-image studies: Development and preliminary validation. Behavior research methods, 49(1), 172-183. doi:10.3758/s13428-016-0703-7

• Set of open access nude male and female body shape stimuli plus ratings can be forun here courtesy of the FaceLab Glasgow of the set of open access face and (nude) body stimuli. the relevant paper for citing can be found here - don't forget to cit it if you use them.

  • Cite this: Morrison, D., Wang, H., Hahn, A. C., Jones, B. C., & DeBruine, L. M. (2017). Predicting the reward value of faces and bodies from social perception. PloS one, 12(9), e0185093. The paper can be sourced here: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

• AMASS (Archive of Motion Capture as Surface Shapes) come s from the lab Naureen Mahmood, Nima Ghorbani, Nikolaus F. Troje, Gerard Pons-Moll and Michael J. Black. This is huge human body motion database which uses… ”… different optical marker-based motion capture datasets by representing them within a common framework and parameterization. AMASS is readily useful for animation, visualization, and generating training data for deep learning”.

  • A paper for the database can be found here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03278

In addition you can also try here:

• Anthropometric Data Sets from the defence community: you'll nee dto do a bit of a search here.

• A big collection of a Anthropometric data (and links) for children and adults by the University of Michigan:

Food images???

• Various food images taken from a food image database (Charbonnier, L., van Meer, F., van der Laan, L. N., Viergever, M. A., & Smeets, P. A. (2016). Standardized food images: a photographing protocol and image database. Appetite, 96, 166-173.)