A 3D Model Alignment and Retrieval System

Abstract

Techniques for 3D model alignment and retrieval are proposed in this paper. Since the techniques of 3D modeling and digitizing tools are in great demand, the expectations of 3D models alignment and retrieval are increasingly. We propose an algorithm for 3D model alignment, which gets the affine transformation between two 3D models. The main idea of our 3D alignment algorithm in rotation is to search the similarity of projected 2D shapes from each viewing aspect of two models. Then, we apply the technique to match two 3D models after recovering the affine transformation.