Non-rigid 3D shape retrieval has become an active and important research topic in content-based 3D object retrieval. The aim of this paper is to measure and compare the performance of ...state-of-the-art methods for non-rigid 3D shape retrieval. The paper develops a new benchmark consisting of 600 non-rigid 3D watertight meshes, which are equally classified into 30 categories, to carry out experiments for 11 different algorithms, whose retrieval accuracies are evaluated using six commonly utilized measures. Models and evaluation tools of the new benchmark are publicly available on our web site 1.
► We develop a new benchmark consisting of 600 non-rigid 3D watertight meshes. ► We evaluate and compare 11 non-rigid 3D shape retrieval methods. ► We find that no single method performs best for all kinds of objects. ► Models and evaluation tools of the new benchmark are publicly available.
•Build a large-scale 3D shape retrieval benchmark that supports multi-modal queries.•Evaluate the 26 3D shape retrieval methods using 3 types of metrics.•Solicit and identify state-of-the-art methods ...and promising related techniques.•Perform detailed analysis on diverse methods w.r.t accuracy and efficiency.•Make benchmark and evaluation tools freely available to the community.
Large-scale 3D shape retrieval has become an important research direction in content-based 3D shape retrieval. To promote this research area, two Shape Retrieval Contest (SHREC) tracks on large scale comprehensive and sketch-based 3D model retrieval have been organized by us in 2014. Both tracks were based on a unified large-scale benchmark that supports multimodal queries (3D models and sketches). This benchmark contains 13680 sketches and 8987 3D models, divided into 171 distinct classes. It was compiled to be a superset of existing benchmarks and presents a new challenge to retrieval methods as it comprises generic models as well as domain-specific model types. Twelve and six distinct 3D shape retrieval methods have competed with each other in these two contests, respectively. To measure and compare the performance of the participating and other promising Query-by-Model or Query-by-Sketch 3D shape retrieval methods and to solicit state-of-the-art approaches, we perform a more comprehensive comparison of twenty-six (eighteen originally participating algorithms and eight additional state-of-the-art or new) retrieval methods by evaluating them on the common benchmark. The benchmark, results, and evaluation tools are publicly available at our websites (http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/vug/sharp/contest/2014/Generic3D/, 2014, http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/vug/sharp/contest/2014/SBR/, 2014).
•Build a small scale and a large scale sketch-based 3D model retrieval benchmark.•Evaluate 15 best sketch-based 3D model retrieval algorithms on the two benchmarks.•Solicit and identify the ...state-of-the-art methods and promising related techniques.•Incisive analysis on diverse methods w.r.t scalability and efficiency performance.•The benchmarks and evaluation tools provide good reference to the related community.
Sketch-based 3D shape retrieval has become an important research topic in content-based 3D object retrieval. To foster this research area, two Shape Retrieval Contest (SHREC) tracks on this topic have been organized by us in 2012 and 2013 based on a small-scale and large-scale benchmarks, respectively. Six and five (nine in total) distinct sketch-based 3D shape retrieval methods have competed each other in these two contests, respectively. To measure and compare the performance of the top participating and other existing promising sketch-based 3D shape retrieval methods and solicit the state-of-the-art approaches, we perform a more comprehensive comparison of fifteen best (four top participating algorithms and eleven additional state-of-the-art methods) retrieval methods by completing the evaluation of each method on both benchmarks. The benchmarks, results, and evaluation tools for the two tracks are publicly available on our websites 1,2.
Content-based 3D object retrieval has become an active topic in many research communities. In this paper, we propose a novel visual similarity-based 3D shape retrieval method (CM-BOF) using Clock ...Matching and Bag-of-Features. Specifically, pose normalization is first applied to each object to generate its canonical pose, and then the normalized object is represented by a set of depth-buffer images captured on the vertices of a given geodesic sphere. Afterwards, each image is described as a word histogram obtained by the vector quantization of the image’s salient local features. Finally, an efficient multi-view shape matching scheme (i.e., Clock Matching) is employed to measure the dissimilarity between two models. When applying the CM-BOF method in non-rigid 3D shape retrieval, multidimensional scaling (MDS) should be utilized before pose normalization to calculate the canonical form for each object. This paper also investigates several critical issues for the CM-BOF method, including the influence of the number of views, codebook, training data, and distance function. Experimental results on five commonly used benchmarks demonstrate that: (1) In contrast to the traditional Bag-of-Features, the time-consuming clustering is not necessary for the codebook construction of the CM-BOF approach; (2) Our methods are superior or comparable to the state of the art in applications of both rigid and non-rigid 3D shape retrieval.
Recently, content based 3D shape retrieval has been an active area of research. Benchmarking allows researchers to evaluate the quality of results of different 3D shape retrieval approaches. Here, we ...propose a new publicly available 3D shape benchmark to advance the state of art in 3D shape retrieval. We provide a review of previous and recent benchmarking efforts and then discuss some of the issues and problems involved in developing a benchmark. A detailed description of the new shape benchmark is provided including some of the salient features of this benchmark. In this benchmark, the 3D models are classified mainly according to visual shape similarity but in contrast to other benchmarks, the geometric structure of each model is modified and normalized, with each class in the benchmark sharing the equal number of models to reduce the possible bias in evaluation results. In the end we evaluate several representative algorithms for 3D shape searching on the new benchmark, and a comparison experiment between different shape benchmarks is also conducted to show the reliability of the new benchmark.
This paper investigates the capabilities of the Bag-of-Words (BWs) method in the 3D shape retrieval field. The contributions of this paper are (1) the 3D shape retrieval task is categorized from ...different points of view: specific versus generic, partial-to-global retrieval (PGR) versus global-to-global retrieval (GGR), and articulated versus nonarticulated (2) the spatial information, represented as concentric spheres, is integrated into the framework to improve the discriminative ability (3) the analysis of the experimental results on Purdue Engineering Benchmark (PEB) reveals that some properties of the BW approach make it perform better on the PGR task than the GGR task (4) the BW approach is evaluated on nonarticulated database PEB and articulated database McGill Shape Benchmark (MSB) and compared to other methods.
In this paper, we present an evaluation strategy based on human-generated ground truth to measure the performance of 3D interest point detection techniques. We provide quantitative evaluation ...measures that relate automatically detected interest points to human-marked points, which were collected through a web-based application. We give visual demonstrations and a discussion on the results of the subjective experiments. We use a voting-based method to construct ground truth for 3D models and propose three evaluation measures, namely False Positive and False Negative Errors, and Weighted Miss Error to compare interest point detection algorithms.
This paper investigates the capabilities of the Bag-of-Words (BWs) method in the 3D shape retrieval field. The contributions of this paper are (1) the 3D shape retrieval task is categorized from ...different points of view: specific versus generic, partial-to-global retrieval (PGR) versus global-to-global retrieval (GGR), and articulated versus nonarticulated (2) the spatial information, represented as concentric spheres, is integrated into the framework to improve the discriminative ability (3) the analysis of the experimental results on Purdue Engineering Benchmark (PEB) reveals that some properties of the BW approach make it perform better on the PGR task than the GGR task (4) the BW approach is evaluated on nonarticulated database PEB and articulated database McGill Shape Benchmark (MSB) and compared to other methods.
Feature-Preserved 3D Canonical Form Lian, Zhouhui; Godil, Afzal; Xiao, Jianguo
International journal of computer vision,
03/2013, Letnik:
102, Številka:
1-3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Measuring the dissimilarity between non-rigid objects is a challenging problem in 3D shape retrieval. One potential solution is to construct the models’ 3D canonical forms (i.e., isometry-invariant ...representations in 3D Euclidean space) on which any rigid shape matching algorithm can be applied. However, existing methods, which are typically based on embedding procedures, result in greatly distorted canonical forms, and thus could not provide satisfactory performance to distinguish non-rigid models.
In this paper, we present a feature-preserved canonical form for non-rigid 3D watertight meshes. The basic idea is to naturally deform original models against corresponding initial canonical forms calculated by Multidimensional Scaling (MDS). Specifically, objects are first segmented into near-rigid subparts, and then, through properly-designed rotations and translations, original subparts are transformed into poses that correspond well with their positions and directions on MDS canonical forms. Final results are obtained by solving nonlinear minimization problems for optimal alignments and smoothing boundaries between subparts. Experiments on two non-rigid 3D shape benchmarks not only clearly verify the advantages of our algorithm against existing approaches, but also demonstrate that, with the help of the proposed canonical form, we can obtain significantly better retrieval accuracy compared to the state of the art.
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