MIND: Material Interface Generation from UDFs for Non-Manifold Surface Reconstruction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02938v2
• Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2025 12:25:29 GMT
• Title: MIND: Material Interface Generation from UDFs for Non-Manifold Surface Reconstruction
• Authors: Xuhui Chen, Fei Hou, Wencheng Wang, Hong Qin, Ying He,
• Abstract summary: Unsigned distance fields are widely used in 3D deep learning.<n> extracting meshes from UDFs remains challenging, as the learned fields rarely attain exact zero distances.<n>A common workaround is to reconstruct signed distance fields (SDFs) locally from UDFs to enable surface extraction via Marching Cubes.<n>We propose MIND, a novel algorithm for generating material interfaces directly from UDFs.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Unsigned distance fields (UDFs) are widely used in 3D deep learning due to their ability to represent shapes with arbitrary topology. While prior work has largely focused on learning UDFs from point clouds or multi-view images, extracting meshes from UDFs remains challenging, as the learned fields rarely attain exact zero distances. A common workaround is to reconstruct signed distance fields (SDFs) locally from UDFs to enable surface extraction via Marching Cubes. However, this often introduces topological artifacts such as holes or spurious components. Moreover, local SDFs are inherently incapable of representing non-manifold geometry, leading to complete failure in such cases. To address this gap, we propose MIND (Material Interface from Non-manifold Distance fields), a novel algorithm for generating material interfaces directly from UDFs, enabling non-manifold mesh extraction from a global perspective. The core of our method lies in deriving a meaningful spatial partitioning from the UDF, where the target surface emerges as the interface between distinct regions. We begin by computing a two-signed local field to distinguish the two sides of manifold patches, and then extend this to a multi-labeled global field capable of separating all sides of a non-manifold structure. By combining this multi-labeled field with the input UDF, we construct material interfaces that support non-manifold mesh extraction via a multi-labeled Marching Cubes algorithm. Extensive experiments on UDFs generated from diverse data sources, including point cloud reconstruction, multi-view reconstruction, and medial axis transforms, demonstrate that our approach robustly handles complex non-manifold surfaces and significantly outperforms existing methods. The source code is available at https://github.com/jjjkkyz/MIND.

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