Power Diagram Enhanced Adaptive Isosurface Extraction From Signed Distance Fields

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Authors: Pengfei Wang, Ziyang Zhang, Wensong Wang, Shuangmin Chen, Haiyang Li, Shiqing Xin, Changhe Tu, Wenping Wang
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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