A Survey of Content-Based 3D Shape Retrieval Methods Export

@article{TangelderV08, abstract = {Abstract  Recent developments in techniques for modeling, digitizing and visualizing 3D shapes has led to an explosion in the number of available 3D models on the Internet and in domain-specific databases. This has led to the development of 3D shape retrieval systems that, given a query object, retrieve similar 3D objects. For visualization, 3D shapes are often represented as a surface, in particular polygonal meshes, for example in VRML format. Often these models contain holes, intersecting polygons, are not manifold, and do not enclose a volume unambiguously. On the contrary, 3D volume models, such as solid models produced by CAD systems, or voxels models, enclose a volume properly. This paper surveys the literature on methods for content based 3D retrieval, taking into account the applicability to surface models as well as to volume models. The methods are evaluated with respect to several requirements of content based 3D shape retrieval, such as: (1) shape representation requirements, (2) properties of dissimilarity measures, (3) efficiency, (4) discrimination abilities, (5) ability to perform partial matching, (6) robustness, and (7) necessity of pose normalization. Finally, the advantages and limitations of the several approaches in content based 3D shape retrieval are discussed.}, author = {Tangelder, Johan and Veltkamp, Remco}, citeulike-article-id = {2714986}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11042-007-0181-0}, doi = {10.1007/s11042-007-0181-0}, journal = {Multimedia Tools and Applications}, keywords = {3d, analysis, descriptor, evaluation, shape}, posted-at = {2009-05-28 10:21:57}, priority = {2}, title = {A Survey of Content-Based 3D Shape Retrieval Methods}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11042-007-0181-0} }

TY - JOUR ID - TangelderV08 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2714986 N2 - Abstract  Recent developments in techniques for modeling, digitizing and visualizing 3D shapes has led to an explosion in the number of available 3D models on the Internet and in domain-specific databases. This has led to the development of 3D shape retrieval systems that, given a query object, retrieve similar 3D objects. For visualization, 3D shapes are often represented as a surface, in particular polygonal meshes, for example in VRML format. Often these models contain holes, intersecting polygons, are not manifold, and do not enclose a volume unambiguously. On the contrary, 3D volume models, such as solid models produced by CAD systems, or voxels models, enclose a volume properly. This paper surveys the literature on methods for content based 3D retrieval, taking into account the applicability to surface models as well as to volume models. The methods are evaluated with respect to several requirements of content based 3D shape retrieval, such as: (1) shape representation requirements, (2) properties of dissimilarity measures, (3) efficiency, (4) discrimination abilities, (5) ability to perform partial matching, (6) robustness, and (7) necessity of pose normalization. Finally, the advantages and limitations of the several approaches in content based 3D shape retrieval are discussed. JF - Multimedia Tools and Applications TI - A Survey of Content-Based 3D Shape Retrieval Methods KW - 3d KW - analysis KW - descriptor KW - evaluation KW - shape AU - Tangelder, Johan AU - Veltkamp, Remco UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11042-007-0181-0 ER -