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Reflective symmetry is useful for various areas such as computer vision, medical imaging, and 3D model retrieval system. This paper presents an intuitive reflective symmetry detection method for 3D polygon objects. Without any mapping process the method detects the reflective symmetry plane by parallel projection. This paper defines a continuous measure to estimate how much an object is reflective symmetrical for a projection plane through the center of the object. Also it explores the method to detect the reflective symmetry plane with the measure. The proposed method can detect up to 99% reflective symmetry plane not exceeding 4 degree angle for perfect symmetry objects and detect up to 85% reflective symmetry plane not exceeding 10 degree angle for near symmetry objects using Princeton Shape Benchmark.
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Song, JW., Gwun, OB. (2007). Reflective Symmetry Detection Based on Parallel Projection. In: Beliczynski, B., Dzielinski, A., Iwanowski, M., Ribeiro, B. (eds) Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms. ICANNGA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4432. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71629-7_66
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