A subjective experiment for 3D-mesh segmentation evaluation

In this paper we present a subjective quality assessment experiment for 3D-mesh segmentation. For this end, we carefully designed a protocol with respect to several factors namely the rendering conditions, the possible interactions, the rating range, and the number of human subjects. To carry out the subjective experiment, more than 40 human observers have rated a set of 250 segmentation results issued from various algorithms. The obtained Mean Opinion Scores, which represent the human subjects' point of view toward the quality of each segmentation, have then been used to evaluate both the quality of automatic segmentation algorithms and the quality of similarity metrics used in recent mesh segmentation benchmarking systems.