TY - CONF A1 - Mukhopadhyay, Anirban A1 - Bhandarkar, Suchendra M. M2 - Paris, France SN - 978-1-4799-5751-4 PB - IEEE SP - 4737 N2 - A novel intrinsic geometric scale space formulation for 3D deformable surfaces termed as the Biharmonic Density Estimate (BDE) is proposed. The proposed BDE signature allows for multiscale surface feature-based representation of deformable 3D shapes for subsequent image and scene analysis. It is shown to provide an underlying theoretical framework for the concept of intrinsic geometric scale space, resulting in a highly descriptive characterization of both, the local surface structure and the global metric of the 3D shape. The compactness and robustness of the proposed BDE signature are demonstrated via a series of experiments and a key components detection application. AV - none TI - Biharmonic density estimate - a scale space signature for deformable surfaces KW - Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Geometry; Kernel; Robustness; Shape; Surface treatment; Three-dimensional displays Y1 - 2014/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=7025960 ID - eprints2237 EP - 4741 T2 - IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) ER -