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 …

Three-dimensional shape searching is a problem of current interest in several different
fields. Most techniques have been developed for a particular domain and reduce a shape …

This work addresses the problem of real-time 3D shape based object class recognition, its
scaling to many categories and the reliable perception of categories. A novel shape …

The development of effective content-based multimedia search systems is an important
research issue due to the growing amount of digital audio-visual information. In the case of …

Often practitioners face the issue of choosing the most adequate 3D features for their
problem. As with many other problems, there isn'ta “best” feature to use. Nonetheless, we …

Three-dimensional shape retrieval is a problem of current interest in several different fields,
especially in the mechanical engineering domain. There exists a large body of work in …

Techniques are provided for searching on three dimensional (3D) objects across large,
distributed repositories of 3D models. 3D shapes are created for input to a search system; …

Recently, extensive research efforts have been dedicated to view-based methods for 3-D
object retrieval due to the highly discriminative property of multiviews for 3-D object …

Shape similarity assessment is a fundamental geometric reasoning problem that finds
application in several different product design and manufacturing applications. A …

The development of inexpensive 3D data acquisition devices has promisingly facilitated the
wide availability and popularity of point clouds, which attracts increasing attention to the …