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Chapter 5: Analysis and Results 77We present the results of the shape description proposed in this thesis in Figures 5.13and 5.14. We start with the description of the simple cube in Figure 5.13 (a). We showhow the six faces of a cube are interconnected in the graph and since each of these facesis planar they convey no shape information. We would like to emphasize that all cuboidswill also have the same description. This can be distinguished only with scaleinformation along with the graph. With the fan disk example, we show the graphcomplexity that we will face with more and more complex parts. Figure 5.13(c),5.14(a)–(c) are our experimental results on automotive components. Since ourassumptions about man-made components go well with the informational signature thatwe have proposed our results are good. We show the result of applying our measure onthe real scene that we acquired before we conclude this section in Figure 5.15. We showthe scene, the segmented muffler from the scene and its description that looks verysimilar to the muffler results in Figure 5.13(c). We consider this as our first step towardsobject detection. However for the algorithm to be fully automated for object detectionwe need an implementation of partial graph matching. We also have to addressocclusion problems and representation issues with more and more complex components.This section concludes our experimental results for the CVM algorithm. We havepresented the evolution of the algorithm in this chapter with results and analysis at eachstage of the development. We now move to the final section of this thesis where wedraw conclusions from these results and then discuss future directions for our research.