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Iterative Poisson Surface Reconstruction (iPSR) for Unoriented Points

arXiv 2209.09510 ↗First posted 20 Sep 2022cs.GRcited by 31

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Abstract (arXiv)

Poisson surface reconstruction (PSR) remains a popular technique for reconstructing watertight surfaces from 3D point samples thanks to its efficiency, simplicity, and robustness. Yet, the existing PSR method and subsequent variants work only for oriented points. This paper intends to validate that an improved PSR, called iPSR, can completely eliminate the requirement of point normals and proceed in an iterative manner. In each iteration, iPSR takes as input point samples with normals directly computed from the surface obtained in the preceding iteration, and then generates a new surface with better quality. Extensive quantitative evaluation confirms that the new iPSR algorithm converges in 5-30 iterations even with randomly initialized normals. If initialized with a simple visibility based heuristic, iPSR can further reduce the number of iterations. We conduct comprehensive comparisons with PSR and other powerful implicit-function based methods. Finally, we confirm iPSR's effectiveness and scalability on the AIM@SHAPE dataset and challenging (indoor and outdoor) scenes. Code and data for this paper are at https://github.com/houfei0801/ipsr.

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  1. 2023Neural-Singular-Hessian: Implicit Neural Representation of Unoriented Point Clouds by Enforcing Singular Hessiancited by 34
  2. 2023Robust Zero Level-Set Extraction from Unsigned Distance Fields Based on Double Coveringcited by 21
  3. 2024NeurCADRecon: Neural Representation for Reconstructing CAD Surfaces by Enforcing Zero Gaussian Curvaturecited by 12
  4. 2024MultiPull: Detailing Signed Distance Functions by Pulling Multi-Level Queries at Multi-Stepcited by 11
  5. 2023Learning Signed Hyper Surfaces for Oriented Point Cloud Normal Estimationcited by 10
  6. 2022Point normal orientation and surface reconstruction by incorporating isovalue constraints to Poisson equationcited by 8
  7. 2024NeurCross: A Neural Approach to Computing Cross Fields for Quad Mesh Generationcited by 8
  8. 2025MeshMosaic: Scaling Artist Mesh Generation via Local-to-Global Assemblycited by 8
  9. 20232S-UDF: A Novel Two-stage UDF Learning Method for Robust Non-watertight Model Reconstruction from Multi-view Imagescited by 7
  10. 2024Details Enhancement in Unsigned Distance Field Learning for High-fidelity 3D Surface Reconstructioncited by 7
  11. 2024GSurf: Learning Signed Distance Fields from Splatting Opaque Gaussians for High-quality 3D Reconstructioncited by 7
  12. 2024Monge-Ampere Regularization for Learning Arbitrary Shapes from Point Cloudscited by 5
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  1. 2024Toward Robust Neural Reconstruction from Sparse Point Setscited by 5
  2. 2024Consistent Point Orientation for Manifold Surfaces via Boundary Integrationcited by 4
  3. 2024PPSURF: Combining Patches and Point Convolutions for Detailed Surface Reconstructioncited by 3
  4. 2024DCUDF2: Improving Efficiency and Accuracy in Extracting Zero Level Sets from Unsigned Distance Fieldscited by 3
  5. 2025FlatCAD: Fast Curvature Regularization of Neural SDFs for CAD Modelscited by 3
  6. 2023Learning Self-Prior for Mesh Inpainting Using Self-Supervised Graph Convolutional Networkscited by 2
  7. 2023Neural Poisson Surface Reconstruction: Resolution-Agnostic Shape Reconstruction from Point Cloudscited by 2
  8. 2025Stochastic Poisson Surface Reconstruction with One Solve using Geometric Gaussian Processescited by 2
  9. 2024A Geometric Algorithm for Blood Vessel Reconstruction from Skeletal Representationcited by 1
  10. 2025SplatCo: Structure-View Collaborative Gaussian Splatting for Detail-Preserving Rendering of Large-Scale Unbounded Scenescited by 1
  11. 2025A Divide-and-Conquer Approach for Global Orientation of Non-Watertight Scene-Level Point Clouds Using 0-1 Integer Optimizationcited by 1
  12. 2023Polyhedral Surface: Self-supervised Point Cloud Reconstruction Based on Polyhedral Surfacecited by 0
  13. 2025Separability Membrane: 3D Active Contour for Point Cloud Surface Reconstructioncited by 0
  14. 2025Approximating Signed Distance Fields With Sparse Ellipsoidal Radial Basis Function Networks: A Dynamic Multi-Objective Optimization Strategycited by 0
  15. 2025Wavelet-based Global Orientation and Surface Reconstruction for Point Cloudscited by 0
  16. 2025Neural Visibility of Point Setscited by 0
  17. 2025Voronoi-Assisted Optimization for Diffusing Unsigned Distance Fields from Unoriented Pointscited by 0
  18. 2025Three-dimensional narrow volume reconstruction method with unconditional stability based on a phase-field Lagrange multiplier approachcited by 0
  19. 2026Joint Orientation and Weight Optimization for Robust Watertight Surface Reconstruction via Dirichlet-Regularized Winding Fieldscited by 0