A Neural Particle Level Set Method for Dynamic Interface Tracking

ACM Transactions on Graphics (To be presented at Siggraph 2025)
Poster Dataset Distillation (PoDD)

Abstract

We propose a neural particle level set (Neural PLS) method to accommodate tracking and evolving dynamic neural representations. At the heart of our approach is a set of oriented particles serving dual roles of interface trackers and sampling seeders. These dynamic particles are used to evolve the interface and construct neural representations on a multi-resolution grid-hash structure to hybridize coarse sparse distance fields and multi-scale feature encoding. Based on these parallel implementations and neural-network-friendly architectures, our neural particle level set method combines the computational merits on both ends of the traditional particle level sets and the modern implicit neural representations, in terms of feature representation and dynamic tracking. We demonstrate the efficacy of our approach by showcasing its performance surpassing traditional level-set methods in both benchmark tests and physical simulations.

Level Set Validations

Spike Disk

Single Vortex

Vortex Particle

Rigid Armadillo Rotation

3D Deformation

3D Deformation (Longer Version)

Fluid Simulation

Random Sphere Dropping

Armadillo Dropping Into Water

Moving Paddle

Lighthouse

Video

BibTeX

@article{chen2025neural,
        title={A Neural Particle Level Set Method for Dynamic Interface Tracking},
        author={Chen, Duowen and Zhou, Junwei and Zhu, Bo},
        journal={ACM Transactions on Graphics},
        year={2025},
        publisher={ACM New York, NY}
      }