We propose a 3D object retrieval system which uses parametric templates as prior knowledge for the retrieval. A parametric template represents an object-domain and a semantic concept like 'chair' or 'plane' or a more specific concept like 'dining-char' or 'biplane'. The template can be specified at a general or specific level and can even equal actual retrieved objects. The parametric template is composed of several input parameters and an operation chain which constructs an object. Different parameter combinations lead to different object instances. We combine and evaluate a paramteric template with different descriptors. Our results show that the usage of parametric templates can raise the retrieval performance significantly.
