Searching for Similar 3D Models

This paper deals with searching similar 3D models in a database containing up to thousands of models. It focuses in particular on the comparison of existing descriptors used to describe 3D models and the subsequent evaluation of similarity between models. In particular, the descriptors Rotation Invariant Spherical Harmonics and 3D Zernike Descriptor are compared. It also describes the use of libraries to extract these descriptors and to design of various experiments with these libraries over several object databases. It examines the effect of scale, translation, deformation and rotation of different 3D models on the resulting descriptor and the overall accuracy of both selected methods. These results compare