Figure 1: Fully automated groupings of Smithsonian 3D Digitization in the Vertebrate Zoology-Mammals collection using CADseek’s Shape Analytics Engine.
Ames, Iowa – October 11, 2022 – The research lab at the iSEEK Corporation is sharing a sample CADseek Shape Analytics Report for the Smithsonian 3D Digitization in the Vertebrate Zoology-Mammals collection. The dataset consisted of 2,095 3D scanned objects. The CADseek Shape Analytics Engine generated the shape groupings in 2 seconds on a 4-core i7 workstation using a minimum CADseek Shape Similarity Score of 45%. The report displays groupings with more than two members.
According to their website, the 3D Program is a small group of technologists working within the Smithsonian Institution's Digitization Program Office focused on developing solutions to further the Smithsonian's mission of “the increase and diffusion of knowledge” through the use of three-dimensional scanning technology, analysis tools, and their distribution platform.
The CADseek Shape Analytics Engine is not a neural network-based classification engine and, therefore, doesn’t require a pre-defined classification hierarchy or the manual tagging and training of a neural network. The CADseek Shape Analytics Engine classification algorithm is fully automated and is based on the minimum distance classification of the CADseek Shape Signature. A dataset can be analyzed at multiple CADseek Shape Similarity Score cutoffs ranging from duplicates, to highly similar, to including similar dominant features, and even fit relationship.
The CADseek Shape Analytics Report is presented on 3DShapeIndex.com free of charge to both research institutions and industry as part of iSEEK Corporation’s effort to promote and advance 3D shape classification, search, and analytics research.
In the next sample analysis, an automated grouping report will be generated for the Protein Data Bank (PDB) dataset on 3DShapeIndex.com as an example to the applicability of CADseek’s fully automated shape analytics algorithms on Molecular Geometry.