Shape-based retrieval of articulated 3d models using spectral embedding

  • Authors:
  • Varun Jain;Hao Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • GrUVi Lab, School of Computing Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada;GrUVi Lab, School of Computing Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

  • Venue:
  • GMP'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Geometric Modeling and Processing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present an approach for robust shape retrieval from data-bases containing articulated 3D shapes. We represent each shape by the eigenvectors of an appropriately defined affinity matrix, obtaining a spectral embedding. Retrieval is then performed on these embeddings using global shape descriptors. Transformation into the spectral domain normalizes the shapes against articulation (bending), rigid-body transformations, and uniform scaling. Experimentally, we show absolute improvement in retrieval performance when conventional shape descriptors are used in the spectral domain on the McGill database of articulated 3D shapes. We also propose a simple eigenvalue-based descriptor, which is easily computed and performs comparably against the best known shape descriptors applied to the original shapes.