A Comparative Study of Neural Surface Reconstruction for Scientific Visualization
This incremental comparison helps researchers choose methods for 3D surface reconstruction in scientific visualization.
This study compared ten neural surface reconstruction methods for scientific visualization, finding that NeuS2 works best for closed surfaces while NeUDF shows promise for open surfaces despite limitations.
This comparative study evaluates various neural surface reconstruction methods, particularly focusing on their implications for scientific visualization through reconstructing 3D surfaces via multi-view rendering images. We categorize ten methods into neural radiance fields and neural implicit surfaces, uncovering the benefits of leveraging distance functions (i.e., SDFs and UDFs) to enhance the accuracy and smoothness of the reconstructed surfaces. Our findings highlight the efficiency and quality of NeuS2 for reconstructing closed surfaces and identify NeUDF as a promising candidate for reconstructing open surfaces despite some limitations. By sharing our benchmark dataset, we invite researchers to test the performance of their methods, contributing to the advancement of surface reconstruction solutions for scientific visualization.