7. Conclusion and further work
We have proposed the medial axis spectrum of a 3D shape, which is a novel medial axis based shape descriptor for 3D shape analysis. We demonstrate the several useful properties of the medial axis spectrum including invariance to uniform scaling and isometry of the medial axis, and consistency in the presence of shape boundary noises. As shown by our experiments, the medial axis spectrum works effectively in shape classification and retrieval. Based on the Minkowski–Euclidean ratio developed in this paper, we may be able to develop a framework to simplify the medial axis of a 3D shape. This will be our future work.