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Shape2Vec: semantic-based descriptors for 3D shapes, sketches and images
Cross-modal shape retrieval examples using different input modalities. From the top: a sketch, a word, a synthetic depthmap, a natural image [Russakovsky et al. 2015] and a 3D model query.
Abstract
Convolutional neural networks have been successfully used to compute shape descriptors, or jointly embed shapes and sketches in a common vector space. We propose a novel approach that leverages both labeled 3D shapes and semantic information contained in the labels, to generate semantically-meaningful shape descriptors. A neural network is trained to generate shape descriptors that lie close to a vector representation of the shape class, given a vector space of words. This method is easily extendable to range scans, hand-drawn sketches and images. This makes cross-modal retrieval possible, without a need to design different methods depending on the query type. We show that sketch-based shape retrieval using semantic-based descriptors outperforms the state-of-the-art by large margins, and mesh-based retrieval generates results of higher relevance to the query, than current deep shape descriptors.
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Bibtex
@article{Tasse2016,
author = {Flora P. Tasse and Neil A. Dodgson},
title = {Shape2Vec: semantic-based descriptors for 3D shapes, sketches and images},
journal = {ACM Transactions On Graphics},
year = {2016},
url = {http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/rainbow/projects/shape2vec},
}