BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:Linklings LLC BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Melbourne X-LIC-LOCATION:Australia/Melbourne BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:19721003T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=4;BYDAY=1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19721003T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260114T163632Z LOCATION:Darling Harbour Theatre\, Level 2 (Convention Centre) DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231212T093000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231212T124500 UID:siggraphasia_SIGGRAPH Asia 2023_sess209_papers_561@linklings.com SUMMARY:Reach For the Spheres: Tangency-aware surface reconstruction of SD Fs DESCRIPTION:Silvia Sellán (University of Toronto), Christopher Batty (Univ ersity of Waterloo), and Oded Stein (University of Southern California)\n\ nSigned distance fields (SDFs) are a widely utilized implicit surface repr esentation that has applications in various fields such as computer graphi cs, computer vision, and applied mathematics. Despite their frequent use, traditional methods such as Marching Cubes and its variants often overlook fundamental properties of SDFs, resulting in mesh reconstructions that ex hibit oversmoothing and feature loss. To address this, we propose a novel method based on a key insight: each SDF sample corresponds to a spherical region, and the surface represented by the discrete SDF has critical prope rties with respect to each sphere. Leveraging this understanding, our meth od formulates an energy that gauges the degree of violation of tangency co nstraints by a proposed surface. We then employ a gradient flow that minim izes our energy, starting from an initial triangle mesh that encapsulates the surface. The algorithm yields superior reconstructions, surpassing the quality of previous methods, even with sparsely sampled SDFs. Our approac h provides a more nuanced understanding of SDFs and offers significant imp rovements in surface reconstruction.\n\nRegistration Category: Full Access , Enhanced Access, Trade Exhibitor, Experience Hall Exhibitor\n\n URL:https://asia.siggraph.org/2023/full-program?id=papers_561&sess=sess209 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR