Pose Oblivious Shape Signature
Abstract
A 3D shape signature is a compact representation of the essence of the shape. A common use of shape signatures is as a fast indexing mechanism for shape retrieval.
Effective shape signatures capture some global geometric properties which are scale, translation and rotation invariant. In this paper we introduce an effective
shape signature which is also pose-oblivious. This means that the signature is also insensitive to transformations which change the pose of the 3D shape such
as skeletal articulations. Although some topology-based matching methods can be considered pose-oblivious as well, our new signature retains the simplicity
and speed of signature indexing. Moreover, contrary to topology-based methods, the new signature is also insensitive to the topology change of the shape, allowing
to match similar shapes with different genus.
Our signature is a 2D histogram which is a combination of the distribution of two scalar functions defined on the boundary surface of the 3D shape. The first is a
definition of a novel function called the local-diameter function. This function measures the diameter of the 3D shape in the neighborhood of each vertex. The
histogram of this function is an informative measure of the shape which is insensitive to pose changes. The second is the centricity function that, measures the
average geodesic distance from a vertex to all other vertices on the mesh. We evaluate and compare a number of methods for measuring similarity between two signatures,
and demonstrate the effectiveness of our pose-oblivious shape signature within a 3D search engine application for different databases containing hundreds of models.
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