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Neural Strands: Learning Hair Geometry and Appearance from Multi-View Images

arXiv 2207.14067 ↗First posted 28 Jul 2022cs.CV cs.GRcited by 39

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Abstract (arXiv)

We present Neural Strands, a novel learning framework for modeling accurate hair geometry and appearance from multi-view image inputs. The learned hair model can be rendered in real-time from any viewpoint with high-fidelity view-dependent effects. Our model achieves intuitive shape and style control unlike volumetric counterparts. To enable these properties, we propose a novel hair representation based on a neural scalp texture that encodes the geometry and appearance of individual strands at each texel location. Furthermore, we introduce a novel neural rendering framework based on rasterization of the learned hair strands. Our neural rendering is strand-accurate and anti-aliased, making the rendering view-consistent and photorealistic. Combining appearance with a multi-view geometric prior, we enable, for the first time, the joint learning of appearance and explicit hair geometry from a multi-view setup. We demonstrate the efficacy of our approach in terms of fidelity and efficiency for various hairstyles.

Key facts. Cited by 39 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 25 of its 54 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 28 Jul 2022.

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  1. 2023GaussianAvatars: Photorealistic Head Avatars with Rigged 3D Gaussianscited by 256
  2. 2024GaussianHair: Hair Modeling and Rendering with Light-aware Gaussianscited by 48
  3. 2023RenderMe-360: A Large Digital Asset Library and Benchmarks Towards High-fidelity Head Avatarscited by 45
  4. 2023Learning Disentangled Avatars with Hybrid 3D Representationscited by 44
  5. 2023Neural Haircut: Prior-Guided Strand-Based Hair Reconstructioncited by 43
  6. 2023Text-Guided Generation and Editing of Compositional 3D Avatarscited by 39
  7. 2023ExBluRF: Efficient Radiance Fields for Extreme Motion Blurred Imagescited by 38
  8. 2023HHAvatar: Gaussian Head Avatar with Dynamic Hairscited by 35
  9. 2024Human Hair Reconstruction with Strand-Aligned 3D Gaussianscited by 35
  10. 2022NeuWigs: A Neural Dynamic Model for Volumetric Hair Capture and Animationcited by 30
  11. 2023HAAR: Text-Conditioned Generative Model of 3D Strand-based Human Hairstylescited by 29
  12. 2024MonoHair: High-Fidelity Hair Modeling from a Monocular Videocited by 24
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  1. 2024Perm: A Parametric Representation for Multi-Style 3D Hair Modelingcited by 21
  2. 2022DINER: Depth-aware Image-based NEural Radiance fieldscited by 19
  3. 2024SurFhead: Affine Rig Blending for Geometrically Accurate 2D Gaussian Surfel Head Avatarscited by 15
  4. 2025DiffLocks: Generating 3D Hair from a Single Image using Diffusion Modelscited by 15
  5. 2023Automatic Animation of Hair Blowing in Still Portrait Photoscited by 13
  6. 2024Dr.Hair: Reconstructing Scalp-Connected Hair Strands without Pre-training via Differentiable Rendering of Line Segmentscited by 11
  7. 2024Quaffure: Real-Time Quasi-Static Neural Hair Simulationcited by 10
  8. 2025Im2Haircut: Single-view Strand-based Hair Reconstruction for Human Avatarscited by 8
  9. 2023Deformable Model-Driven Neural Rendering for High-Fidelity 3D Reconstruction of Human Heads Under Low-View Settingscited by 7
  10. 2024PEGASUS: Personalized Generative 3D Avatars with Composable Attributescited by 7
  11. 2025GroomLight: Hybrid Inverse Rendering for Relightable Human Hair Appearance Modelingcited by 7
  12. 2025HairCUP: Hair Compositional Universal Prior for 3D Gaussian Avatarscited by 7
  13. 2026NeuralFur: Animal Fur Reconstruction From Multi-View Imagescited by 4
  14. 2023A Local Appearance Model for Volumetric Capture of Diverse Hairstylecited by 3
  15. 2024StrandHead: Text to Hair-Disentangled 3D Head Avatars Using Human-Centric Priorscited by 3
  16. 2025Spline-based Transformerscited by 2
  17. 2025HairGS: Hair Strand Reconstruction based on 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 2
  18. 2026PhysHead: Simulation-Ready Gaussian Head Avatarscited by 2
  19. 2023EMS: 3D Eyebrow Modeling from Single-view Imagescited by 1
  20. 2025GeomHair: Reconstruction of Hair Strands from Colorless 3D Scanscited by 1
  21. 2025DGH: Dynamic Gaussian Haircited by 1
  22. 2026CGHair: Compact Gaussian Hair Reconstruction with Card Clusteringcited by 1
  23. 2026MoZoo:Unleashing Video Diffusion power in animal fur and muscle simulationcited by 1
  24. 2025PanoHair: Detailed Hair Strand Synthesis on Volumetric Headscited by 0
  25. 2026FHAvatar: Fast and High-Fidelity Reconstruction of Face-and-Hair Composable 3D Head Avatar from Few Casual Capturescited by 0
  26. 2026EfficientMonoHair: Fast Strand-Level Reconstruction from Monocular Video via Multi-View Direction Fusioncited by 0
  27. 2026Wispy to Voluminous: Prior-free Multi-view Capture of Strand-level Facial Haircited by 0