Co-segmentation of 3D shapes

Co-segmentation of 3D shapes in the same category is an intensive topic in computer

graphics. In this paper, we present an unsupervised method to segment a set of

meshes into corresponding parts in a consistent manner. Given the over-segmented

patches as input, the co-segmentation result is generated by grouping them. In

contrast to the previous method, we formulate the problem as a multi-view spectral

clustering task by co-training a set of affinity matrices derived from different shape

descriptors. For each shape descriptor, the affinity matrix is constructed via combining

low-rankness and sparse representation. The integration of multiple features makes

our method tolerate the large geometry and topology variations among the 3D meshes

in a set. Moreover, the low-rank and sparse representation can capture not only the

global structure but also the local relationship, which demonstrate robust to outliers.

The experimental results show that our approach successfully segments each category

in the benchmark dataset into corresponding parts and generates more reliable results

compared with the state-of-the-art.

Results