A 3D Pottery Database for Benchmarking Content Based Retrieval Mechanisms

The benchmarking of 3D content base retrieval mechanisms is usually performed on test bed datasets composed by 3D models. These usually cover several categories of objects such as ships, airplanes, animals, furniture, etc. In this paper, we attempted the generation of a ground truth database of 3D models that exhibit morphological characteristics similar to those found in ancient Greek pottery. We developed a software tool to model 3D vessels based on bitmap profile images, enhanced with the function to semi-automatically generate random 3D vessels accompanied by metadata. The metadata follow a proposed MPEG-7 compatible schema which covers the basic information required by an archaeologist to describe a vessel and the MPEG-7 3D Shape Spectrum Descriptor for allowing possible performance comparisons of novel descriptors against a standard.

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