3DGH: 3D Head Generation with Composable Hair and Face
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Abstract (arXiv)
We present 3DGH, an unconditional generative model for 3D human heads with composable hair and face components. Unlike previous work that entangles the modeling of hair and face, we propose to separate them using a novel data representation with template-based 3D Gaussian Splatting, in which deformable hair geometry is introduced to capture the geometric variations across different hairstyles. Based on this data representation, we design a 3D GAN-based architecture with dual generators and employ a cross-attention mechanism to model the inherent correlation between hair and face. The model is trained on synthetic renderings using carefully designed objectives to stabilize training and facilitate hair-face separation. We conduct extensive experiments to validate the design choice of 3DGH, and evaluate it both qualitatively and quantitatively by comparing with several state-of-the-art 3D GAN methods, demonstrating its effectiveness in unconditional full-head image synthesis and composable 3D hairstyle editing. More details will be available on our project page: https://c-he.github.io/projects/3dgh/.
Key facts. Cited by 8 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 29 of its 60 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 25 Jun 2025.
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Citing papers per year: 2025: 1; 2026: 7.
8 papers.
- 2025Stable-Hair v2: Real-World Hair Transfer via Multiple-View Diffusion Modelcited by 2
- 2026Condition Matters in Full-head 3D GANscited by 2
- 2026PhysHead: Simulation-Ready Gaussian Head Avatarscited by 2
- 2026FHAvatar: Fast and High-Fidelity Reconstruction of Face-and-Hair Composable 3D Head Avatar from Few Casual Capturescited by 0
- 2026Giving Faces Their Feelings Back: Explicit Emotion Control for Feedforward Single-Image 3D Head Avatarscited by 0
- 2026One-shot Compositional 3D Head Avatars with Deformable Haircited by 0
- 2026COSY: Compositional 3DGS Synthesis for Disentangled Human Head Editingcited by 0
- 2026Detangled: A Framework for Creating, Editing, and Inferencing Feature Rich Hair Strandscited by 0
- 2026Detangled: A Framework for Creating, Editing, and Inferencing Feature Rich Hair Strands10 Jul 2026
- 2026COSY: Compositional 3DGS Synthesis for Disentangled Human Head Editing22 May 2026
- 2026One-shot Compositional 3D Head Avatars with Deformable Hair16 Apr 2026
- 2026Giving Faces Their Feelings Back: Explicit Emotion Control for Feedforward Single-Image 3D Head Avatars16 Apr 2026
- 2026PhysHead: Simulation-Ready Gaussian Head Avatars7 Apr 2026
- 2026FHAvatar: Fast and High-Fidelity Reconstruction of Face-and-Hair Composable 3D Head Avatar from Few Casual Captures24 Mar 2026
- 2026Condition Matters in Full-head 3D GANs6 Feb 2026
- 2025Stable-Hair v2: Real-World Hair Transfer via Multiple-View Diffusion Model10 Jul 2025