Geometric 3D Comparison – an Application

With the advent of powerful 3D visualization, modeling and scanning techniques, there is an increasing need for tools supporting the automatic search for objects in 3D archives. In this paper we adopt our geometric approach to 3D object comparison to an industrial application of finding the best fitting shoe given a 3D foot scan. The geometric similarity estimation is well suited for search among objects with relatively stiff structure, in the presented setting we also have to cope with the reconstruction of 3D models from point clouds, and the definition of location dependent weighting based on anatomic properties of the foot.