%0 Conference Paper
%A New, Austin T.
%A Mukhopadhyay, Anirban
%A Arabnia, Hamid R.
%A Bhandarkar, Suchendra M.
%B SIGGRAPH 2012
%C Los Angeles, California
%D 2012
%F eprints:2234
%P 1
%T Non-rigid shape correspondence and description using geodesic field estimate distribution
%U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2234/
%X Non-rigid shape description and analysis is an unsolved problem in computer graphics. Shape analysis is a fast evolving research field due to the wide availability of 3D shape databases. Widely studied methods for this family of problems include the Gromov Hausdorff distance [1], Bag-of-Features [2] and diffusion geometry [3]. The limitations of the Euclidian distance measure in the context of isometric deformation have made geodesic distance a de-facto standard for describing a metric space for non-rigid shape analysis. In this work, we propose a novel geodesic field space-based approach to describe and analyze non-rigid shapes from a point correspondence perspective.