Ben-Chen, MirelaGotsman, CraigStavros Perantonis and Nikolaos Sapidis and Michela Spagnuolo and Daniel Thalmann2013-10-212013-10-212008978-3-905674-05-71997-0463https://doi.org/10.2312/3DOR/3DOR08/001-008We present a new 3D shape descriptor based on conformal geometry. Our descriptor is invariant under non-rigid quasi-isometric transformations, such as pose changes of articulated models, and is both compact and efficient to compute. We demonstrate the performance of our descriptor on a database of watertight models, and show it is comparable with state-of-the-art descriptors.Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.3.5 [Computer Graphics]: Computational Geometry and Object Modeling I.3.7 [Computer Graphics]: Three-Dimensional Graphics and RealismCharacterizing Shape Using Conformal Factors