The Sketchfab 3D Creative Commons Collection (S3D3C)

TL;DR

The paper introduces S3D3C, a large, diverse 3D model collection with textures and animations, designed to facilitate the evaluation of modern 3D analysis and retrieval methods.

Contribution

It presents a new extensive 3D model dataset with rich features, addressing limitations of previous collections for research and benchmarking.

Findings

Contains 40,802 models from Sketchfab

Includes textured, animated, and material-rich models

Enables comprehensive evaluation of 3D analysis techniques

Abstract

The technology to capture, create, and use three-dimensional (3D) models has become increasingly accessible in recent years. With increasing numbers of use cases for 3D models and collections of rapidly increasing size, better methods to analyze the content of 3D models are required. While previously proposed 3D model collections for research purposes exist, these often contain only untextured geometry and are typically designed for a specific application, which limits their use in quantitative evaluations of modern 3D model analysis methods. In this paper, we introduce the Sketchfab 3D Creative Commons Collection (S3D3C), a new 3D model research collection consisting of 40,802 creative commons licensed models downloaded from the 3D model platform Sketchfab. By including popular freely available models with a wide variety of technical properties, such as textures, materials, and animations, we enable its use in the evaluation of state-of-the-art geometry-based and view-based 3D model analysis and retrieval techniques.