A two-stage shape retrieval (TSR) method to address the 2D shape retrieval problem is proposed.
The cause of unreliable retrieval results in all state-of-the-art methods is identified.
TSR decomposes the decision process into two stages: ICF and LMR.
TSR removes irrelevant shapes by considering local and global features simultaneously.
TSR outperforms all other methods on three popular datasets: MPEG-7, Kimia99 and Tari1000.