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However, the manual measure of such accurate shapes and sizes is labor-intensive, time-consuming, and impractical to apply in a real-time system. This research proposes a foot-detection approach using expert-like measurements to address this concern. It combines the seven-foot dimensions model and the light detection and ranging sensor to encode foot shapes and sizes and detect the dimension surfaces. The graph-based algorithms are developed to present seven-foot dimensions and visualize the shoe\u2019s model based on the augmented reality (AR) technique. 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