SHREC'18 track: Retrieval of Color Patterns Depicted on 3D Models

This paper shows the results of the SHREC’18 track: Retrieval of gray patterns depicted on 3D models. The task proposed in the contest challenges the possibility of retrieving surfaces with a colorimetric pattern from a given query model. This task, which can be see as a simplified version of many real world applications, requires a characterization of the surfaces based on local features, rather then considering the surfaces size and/or bending. All runs submitted to this track are based on local feature vectors. Retrieval performances of the runs reveal that gray pattern retrieval is a challenging issue and a good balance between the size of the pattern and the dimension of the region around a vertex used to locally analyze the color evolution is crucial for pattern description.