1. Interactive Discovery and Semantic Labeling of Patterns in Spatial Data David Blei, Christiane Fellbaum, Adam Finkelstein, and Thomas Funkhouser Princeton University David Blei, Christiane Fellbaum, Adam Finkelstein, and Thomas Funkhouser Princeton University

2. Motivation Lots of 3D data is available with spatial patterns that reveal semantic information Architecture Climate Simulation Medicine Molecular Biology Paleontology Mechanical CAD

3. Data Analysis Detect patterns, similarities, and structures: Molecular biology Paleontology Archaeology Urban planning

4. Data Analysis Detect patterns, similarities, and structures:  Molecular biology Paleontology Archaeology Urban planning

5. Data Analysis Detect patterns, similarities, and structures: Molecular biology  Paleontology Archaeology Urban planning

6. Data Analysis Detect patterns, similarities, and structures: Molecular biology Paleontology  Archaeology Urban planning

7. Data Analysis Detect patterns, similarities, and structures: Molecular biology Paleontology Archaeology  Urban planning

8. Core Research Activities Underlying problems … Index shapes Define distances Find correspondences Detect symmetries Visual explanation Etc.

9. Core Research Activities Underlying problems …  Index shapes Define distances Find correspondences Detect symmetries Visual explanation Etc. Shape Descriptors

10. Core Research Activities Underlying problems … Index shapes  Define distances Find correspondences Detect symmetries Visual explanation Etc. Biharmonic Surface Distance Barycentric Interior Distance

11. Core Research Activities Underlying problems … Index shapes Define distances  Find correspondences Detect symmetries Visual explanation Etc. Mobius Voting

12. Core Research Activities Underlying problems … Index shapes Define distances Find correspondences  Detect symmetries Visual explanation Etc. Symmetry Factored Distance

13. Core Research Activities Underlying problems … Index shapes Define distances Find correspondences Detect symmetries  Visual explanation Etc. Explanation through Visualization

14. Summary Current foci of research Shape representation Shape analysis Shape matching Visual explanation Next focus Interactive, semi-automatic semantic labeling Interactive labeling of objects in cities

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