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 …

We present the Evolved Grasping Analysis Dataset (EGAD), comprising over 2000
generated objects aimed at training and evaluating robotic visual grasp detection …

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 …

Differential topology, and specifically Morse theory, provide a suitable setting for formalizing
and solving several problems related to shape analysis. The fundamental idea behind …

The advances in 3D data acquisition techniques, graphics hardware, and 3D data modeling
and visualizing techniques have led to the proliferation of 3D models. This has made the …

Recognition of an object from an image or image sequences is an important task in
computer vision. It is an important low-level image processing operation and plays a crucial …

As a huge number of 3D CAD models is generated each year, retrieval of 3D CAD models is
becoming more and more important for achieving design reuse. However, the existing …

To fully exploit the valuable knowledge embedded in repositories of digital models, it is
crucial to devise search engines capable of expressing high-level and advanced queries …

This paper presents a novel 3D shape retrieval method, which uses Bag-of-Features and an
efficient multi-view shape matching scheme. In our approach, a properly normalized object …