Castellani, UmbertoCortelazzo, Guido MariaCristani, M.Delponte, ElisabettaFusiello, AndreaGiachetti, AndreaMizzaro, StefanoOdone, FrancescaPuppo, EnricoScateni, RiccardoZanuttigh, PietroVittorio Scarano and Rosario De Chiara and Ugo Erra2014-01-272014-01-272008978-3-905673-68-5https://doi.org/10.2312/LocalChapterEvents/ItalChap/ItalianChapConf2008/113-120This paper describes the work that has been done during the first year of the 3-SHIRT project, which aims at developing innovative solutions in all the phases of content-based 3D shape retrieval, namely: shape analysis and segmentation, design of shape descriptors, shape indexing and matching, and evaluation.Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.3.5 [Computer Graphics]: Computational Geometry and Object Modeling; I.3.5 [Computer Graphics]: Curve, Surface, Solid, and Object Representations