Power Diagram Enhanced Adaptive Isosurface Extraction From Signed Distance Fields
Abstract
Extracting high-fidelity mesh surfaces from Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) has become a fundamental operation in geometry processing. Despite significant progress over the past decades, key challenges remain-namely, how to automatically capture the intricate geometric and topological structures encoded in the zero level set of SDFs. In this paper, we present a novel isosurface extraction algorithm that introduces two key innovations: 1) An incrementally constructed power diagram through the addition of sample points, which enables repeated updates to the extracted surface via its dual-regular Delaunay tetrahedralization; and 2) An adaptive point insertion strategy that identifies regions exhibiting the greatest discrepancy between the current mesh and the underlying continuous surface. As Fig. 1 shows, our framework progressively refines the extracted mesh with minimal computational cost until it sufficiently approximates the underlying surface. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods, particularly for models with intricate geometric variations and complex topologies.
Fields of Study & Subjects
3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation
Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
Publication details
- Journal / source
- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 7422–7434
- Publication date
- 21 April 2026
- Language
- EN