Part-Based Shape Retrieval with Relevance Feedback

We introduce a relevance feedback mechanism for part-based shape retrieval. The database polygons are decomposed but the query polygon is not. In an initial search in the database, the database polygon parts are matched against the query polygon. The best matches are shown to the user, who has to decide which are relevant to its query. In successive iterations, the system infers which parts of the query are of interest, and makes a search with those parts only.