A rotation and scale invariant descriptor for shape recognition

We address the problem of retrieving the silhouettes of objects from a database of shapes with a translation and rotation invariant feature extractor. We retrieve silhouettes by using a “soft” classification based on the Euclidean distance. Experiments show significant gains in retrieval accuracy over the existing literature. This work extends the use of our previously employed feature extractor and shows that the same descriptor can be used for both texture and shape recognition.