The 3D-Pitoti Dataset: A Dataset for high-resolution 3D Surface Segmentation

The development of powerful 3D scanning hardware and reconstruction algorithms has strongly promoted the generation of 3D surface reconstructions in different domains. An area of special interest for such 3D reconstructions is the cultural heritage domain, where surface reconstructions are generated to digitally preserve historical artifacts. While reconstruction quality nowadays is sufficient in many cases, the robust analysis (e.g. segmentation, matching, and classification) of reconstructed 3D data is still an open topic. In this paper, we target the automatic segmentation of high-resolution 3D surface reconstructions of petroglyphs. To foster research in this field, we introduce a fully annotated, large-scale 3D surface dataset including high-resolution meshes, depth maps and point clouds as a novel benchmark dataset, which we make publicly available. Additionally, we provide baseline results for a random forest as well as a convolutional neural network based approach. Results show the complementary strengths and weaknesses of both approaches and point out that the provided dataset represents an open challenge for future research.