GaussianHair: Hair Modeling and Rendering with Light-aware Gaussians

arXiv:2402.10483v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Hairstyle reflects culture and ethnicity at first glance. In the digital era, various realistic human hairstyles are also critical to high-fidelity digital human assets for beauty and inclusivity. Yet, realistic hair modeling and real-time rendering for animation is a formidable challenge due to its sheer number of strands, complicated structures of geometry, and sophisticated interaction with light. This paper presents GaussianHair, a novel explicit hair representation. It enables comprehensive modeling of hair geometry and appearance …

abstract animation arxiv beauty challenge cs.cv cs.gr culture digital digital human fidelity glance hair human inclusivity light modeling real-time rendering type