GaussianHair: Hair Modeling and Rendering with Light-aware Gaussians

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Main Authors: Luo, Haimin, Ouyang, Min, Zhao, Zijun, Jiang, Suyi, Zhang, Longwen, Zhang, Qixuan, Yang, Wei, Xu, Lan, Yu, Jingyi
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author Luo, Haimin
Ouyang, Min
Zhao, Zijun
Jiang, Suyi
Zhang, Longwen
Zhang, Qixuan
Yang, Wei
Xu, Lan
Yu, Jingyi
author_facet Luo, Haimin
Ouyang, Min
Zhao, Zijun
Jiang, Suyi
Zhang, Longwen
Zhang, Qixuan
Yang, Wei
Xu, Lan
Yu, Jingyi
contents 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 from images, fostering innovative illumination effects and dynamic animation capabilities. At the heart of GaussianHair is the novel concept of representing each hair strand as a sequence of connected cylindrical 3D Gaussian primitives. This approach not only retains the hair's geometric structure and appearance but also allows for efficient rasterization onto a 2D image plane, facilitating differentiable volumetric rendering. We further enhance this model with the "GaussianHair Scattering Model", adept at recreating the slender structure of hair strands and accurately capturing their local diffuse color in uniform lighting. Through extensive experiments, we substantiate that GaussianHair achieves breakthroughs in both geometric and appearance fidelity, transcending the limitations encountered in state-of-the-art methods for hair reconstruction. Beyond representation, GaussianHair extends to support editing, relighting, and dynamic rendering of hair, offering seamless integration with conventional CG pipeline workflows. Complementing these advancements, we have compiled an extensive dataset of real human hair, each with meticulously detailed strand geometry, to propel further research in this field.
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spellingShingle GaussianHair: Hair Modeling and Rendering with Light-aware Gaussians
Luo, Haimin
Ouyang, Min
Zhao, Zijun
Jiang, Suyi
Zhang, Longwen
Zhang, Qixuan
Yang, Wei
Xu, Lan
Yu, Jingyi
Graphics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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 from images, fostering innovative illumination effects and dynamic animation capabilities. At the heart of GaussianHair is the novel concept of representing each hair strand as a sequence of connected cylindrical 3D Gaussian primitives. This approach not only retains the hair's geometric structure and appearance but also allows for efficient rasterization onto a 2D image plane, facilitating differentiable volumetric rendering. We further enhance this model with the "GaussianHair Scattering Model", adept at recreating the slender structure of hair strands and accurately capturing their local diffuse color in uniform lighting. Through extensive experiments, we substantiate that GaussianHair achieves breakthroughs in both geometric and appearance fidelity, transcending the limitations encountered in state-of-the-art methods for hair reconstruction. Beyond representation, GaussianHair extends to support editing, relighting, and dynamic rendering of hair, offering seamless integration with conventional CG pipeline workflows. Complementing these advancements, we have compiled an extensive dataset of real human hair, each with meticulously detailed strand geometry, to propel further research in this field.
title GaussianHair: Hair Modeling and Rendering with Light-aware Gaussians
topic Graphics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10483