Effective Similarity Search on Voxelized CAD Objects

  • Authors:
  • Hans-Peter Kriegel;Peer Kröger;Zahi Mashael;Martin Pfeifle;Marco Pötke;Thomas Seidl

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • DASFAA '03 Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Similarity search in database systems is becoming an increasinglyimportant task in modern application domainssuch as multimedia, molecular biology, medical imagingand many others. Especially for CAD applications, suitablesimilarity models and a clear representation of the resultscan help to reduce the cost of developing and producingnew parts by maximizing the reuse of existing parts. In thispaper, we adapt two known similarity models to voxelized3-D CAD data and introduce a new model based on eigen-vectors.The experimental evaluation of our three similaritymodels is based on two real-world test datasets. Furthermore,we introduce hierarchical clustering as a new andeffective way to analyse and compare similarity models. Weshow that both our similarity model as well as our evaluationprocedure are suitable for industrial use.