A probabilistic 3d model retrieval system using sphere image

  • Authors:
  • Ke Ding;Yunhui Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • ACCV'12 Proceedings of the 11th Asian conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The view-based 3D model retrieval systems represent a 3D model using its projected views, and retrieve 3D models by comparing the projected views. Most of the existing view-based 3D model retrieval systems only analyze the features of the projected views, while the spatial arrangements of the viewpoints are not well considered. In this paper, we propose a new 3D model descriptor called sphere image, which is defined as a sphere with a large number of viewpoints distributed on it. Each viewpoint is regarded as a "pixel", associated with a projected view. The feature of the projected view is quantized into a vector, regarded as the "intensity". We also propose a probabilistic graphical model for 3D model matching, and develop a 3D model retrieval system to test our approach. The proposed approach was evaluated on the Princeton shape benchmark. Experimental results indicate that our approach outperforms most of the existing 3D model retrieval systems in respect of retrieval precision and computation cost.