3D Sketch-Based 3D Model Retrieval

How to draw 3D sketches in a three-dimensional space and how to use a hand-drawn 3D sketch to search similar 3D models are brand new and challenging research topics. In this paper, we make an initial study on 3D sketching and propose a novel 3D sketch-based 3D model retrieval system. Our system allows users to freely draw 3D sketches in the air as well as to find similar 3D models given human-drawn 3D sketches. Promising retrieval performance has been achieved in experiments based on 300 collected 3D sketches and a recent large scale sketch-based 3D shape retrieval benchmark.