Abstract:A new method of optical non contact measurement of human body shape is presented.Fringes are projected to the surface of human body and deformed due to the height.Mathematical model is set up with perspective projecting equation.The 3 D information of the stripes is known from the images.Thereby the length of the fringes can be figured out.Compared to other kinds of optical non contact measurement methods,this method is faster,and can get the data of body shape without scan in its field.The image processing is simple,because noise has little effect on it.The calculating method is also simple.The demarcating of the parameters of CCD camera is detailed and the experimental results are given.