“…It is a fundamental problem in computer vision, computer graphics, medical image analysis and has been widely investigated in numerous important applications such as 3D surface matching and reconstruction [5,32,12,30,7,21], statistical shape modeling and knowledge-based segmentation [16,15,22,34], feature correspondence and image registration [28,38,1,20], shape similarity and object recognition [2,3,29]. Let S ⊂ R 3 denote a shape 1 .…”