Preface to special issue on 3DOR 2010

This special issue of The Visual Computer encompasses six papers that were selected among those presented at the 3rd Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (May 2, 2010, Norrkoping, Sweden). The authors were invited to submit a revised and substantially extended version of their contribution to The Visual Computer journal which underwent a new review cycle. The Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval series, founded in 2008, provides a forum for state-of-the-art research in this exciting research field at the intersection of Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning, and Human–Computer Interaction.