Past Events: SHREC'07, SHREC'06

SHREC'08 - Shape Retrieval Contest 2008

Introduction

After two years of success the Network of Excellence AIM@SHAPE is taking the initiative to organize the third edition of SHREC - 3D Shape Retrieval Contest 2008. The general objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of 3D-shape retrieval algorithms. The contest is organized in conjunction with the SMI'08 conference (Shape Modeling International), where the evaluation results will be presented.

*New* this year is that we aim to publish the results in the SMI proceedings. Last year the contest was extended to cover multiple tracks, and thanks to the effort of previous track organizers, SHREC already provides many sources to compare and evaluate 3D retrieval methods. For this year's contest, we aim at new and improved tracks. For that, the participants are requested to have an active role in the organization. This includes proposing track themes, building or acquiring a test collection and deciding upon the queries, relevance assessment, and performance measures.

Tracks

The following tracks are organized. For a descrption of the task, the collections, queries, evaluation, procedures, and time schedule, follow the links or contact the track coordinator.

• Stability on watertight models
  Organizer: Silvia Biasotti (CNR-IMATI)
  Contact: silvia"@"ge.imati.cnr.it
  Web page: http://shrec.ge.imati.cnr.it/shrec08_stability.html
• Classification of watertight models
  Organizer: Daniela Giorgi (CNR-IMATI)
  Contact: daniela"@"ge.imati.cnr.it
  Web page: http://shrec.ge.imati.cnr.it/shrec08_classification.html
• CAD models
  Organizer: Karthik Ramani, Ramanathan Muthuganapathy (Purdue University)
  Contact: shrec"@"purdue.edu, rmuthuga@purdue.edu
  Web page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/PRECISE/shrec08
• Generic 3D models
  Organizer: Ryutarou Ohbuchi (University of Yamanashi)
  Contact:  ohbuchi"@"yamanashi.ac.jp
  Web page: http://www.kki.yamanashi.ac.jp/~ohbuchi/research/SHREC/
  
• 3D face models
  Organizers: Mohamed Daoudi (Telecom Lille1), Frank ter Haar, Remco Veltkamp (Utrecht University)
  Contact: shrec"@"cs.uu.nl
  Web page: http://give-lab.cs.uu.nl/SHREC/shrec2008/

The following list is a step-by-step description of the activities:

1. Potential track organizers send their proposal to shrec"@"cs.uu.nl, describing the envisioned task, collection, queries, ground truth, evaluation method, and expected number of participants.
2. Promising tracks and their organizers are listed at the SHREC web page, the track organizers start working out the details.
3. Participants register to the tracks they want to participate in.
4. Each track is performed according its own schedule.
5. The track organizers collect the results.
6. The track results are combined into the proceedings.
7. The description of the tracks and their results are presented in a SHREC session at SMI'08.

Overall schedule

February 8 - Submission deadline for track proposals.
April 1        - Each track is finished, and results are ready for inclusion in the SMI'08 proceedings.
June 4-6    - Results presented at a session of SMI'08, proceedings available.

The individual tracks will have their own time schedule for registration of participants, release of queries or submission of executables, submission of results, etc.

Organization

The SHREC contest is an initiative of the Network of Excellence AIM@SHAPE, http://www.aimatshape.net/ and supported by the FOCUS-K3D project. For information about the contest, the results, etc. see http://www.aimatshape.net/event/SHREC/. To contact the organizers, send a message to shrec@cs.uu.nl. The SHREC organizers are Frank ter Haar and Remco Veltkamp. The results of SHREC'08 are presented at a special session of SMI'08, Shape Modeling International, http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/smi08/

For registration, questions, etc., please contact shrec"@"cs.uu.nl