3D shape Retrieval Using Bag-of-Feature Method Basing on Local Codebooks

Abstract

Recent investigations illustrate that view-based methods, with pose normalization pre-processing get better performances in retrieving rigid models than other approaches and still the most popular and practical methods in the field of 3D shape retrieval [9,10,11,12]. In this paper we present an improvement of the BF-SIFT method proposed by Ohbuchi et al [1]. This method is based on bag-of-features to integrate a set of features extracted from 2D views of the 3D objects using the SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform [2]) algorithm into a histogram using vector quantization which is based on a global visual codebook. In order to improve the retrieval performances, we propose to associate to each 3D object its local visual codebook instead of a unique global codebook. The experimental results obtained on the Princeton Shape Benchmark database [3] show that the proposed method performs better than the original method.