The common obstacles faced by all types of automatic human body measurement systems are comparably high costs and large sizes with a complex installation process. This study proposes a human-featured automatic measurement system based on vanishing points (HuFAMS-VP). It consists of the following parts. HuFAMS-VP initially extracts a human body image

utilizing the background subtraction method followed by image contour detection. Several critical characteristic points on the contour can then be obtained by using the edge detection technique and proportion method. Finally

we combine the methods of vanishing points with proportion measure to obtain different human body features. HuFAM-VP is applied to measure the human body size

and the measurements are compared with the true sizes. Results show that it can achieve accurate results at less than±5 cm between the measured and real data. Moreover

the average CPU time is less than 2 s. The proposed system has the advantages of easy operation and low cost under the premise of high accuracy. Results show that HuFAM-VP demonstrated validity and robustness.