PGT-NeuS: Progressive-Growing Tri-Plane Representation for Neural Surface Reconstruction

3D reconstruction from multi-view images is a long-standing problem in computer graphic. Neural 3D reconstruction, especially NeuS and its variants, has improved reconstruction quality compared to traditional methods. However, it is still a challenge for these methods to reconstruct fine-grained geometric details since the spherical harmonic positional encoding lacks the ability to express high-frequency signals. In this paper, we propose a multi-resolution tri-plane feature encoding that leverages the detail reconstruction capabilities of high-resolution tri-plane while using the smoothness of low-resolution tri-plane to suppress high-frequency artifacts. Additionally, a progressive training strategy is introduced, gradually merging scene details from coarse to fine granularity, enhancing reconstruction quality while maintaining training stability and reducing difficulty. Furthermore, to address reconstruction challenges arising from sparse viewpoints and inconsistent lighting in image datasets, we introduce normal priors as supervision and propose consistency verification for multi-view normal priors, which assesses the accuracy of normal priors and effectively supervise the reconstructed surfaces. Moreover, we propose a perturbing and fine-tuning strategy on regions of unreliable normal priors to further improve the quality of geometric surface reconstruction.