In this work, we tackle the challenging problem of learning-based single-view 3D hair modeling. Due to the great difficulty of collecting paired real image and 3D hair data, using synthetic data to provide prior knowledge for real domain becomes a leading solution. This unfortunately introduces the challenge of domain gap. Due to the inherent difficulty of realistic hair rendering, existing methods typically use orientation maps instead of hair images as input to bridge the gap. We firmly think an intermediate representation is essential, but we argue that orientation map using the dominant filtering-based methods is sensitive to uncertain noise and far from a competent representation. Thus, we first raise this issue up and propose a novel intermediate representation, termed as HairStep, which consists of a strand map and a depth map. It is found that HairStep not only provides sufficient information for accurate 3D hair modeling, but also is feasible to be inferred from real images. Specifically, we collect a dataset of 1,250 portrait images with two types of annotations. A learning framework is further designed to transfer real images to the strand map and depth map. It is noted that, an extra bonus of our new dataset is the first quantitative metric for 3D hair modeling. Our experiments show that HairStep narrows the domain gap between synthetic and real and achieves state-of-the-art performance on single-view 3D hair reconstruction.
HairLRM: Strand-based Hair Modeling via Large Reconstruction Models
LIGHTSPEED Shenzhen China(LIGHTSPEED深圳中国);State Key Lab of CAD and CG, Zhejiang University Hangzhou China(计算机辅助设计与图形学国家重点实验室,浙江大学杭州中国);Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong China(香港 Baptist大学香港中国);LIGHTSPEED Los Angeles CA USA (2026)(LIGHTSPEED洛杉矶CA美国(2026))
ETH Zürich(苏黎世联邦理工学院);Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems(马克斯·普朗克智能系统研究所);Max Planck Institute for Informatics(马克斯·普朗克信息研究所);Tübingen AI Center(图宾根人工智能中心);Technical University of Munich(慕尼黑工业大学);Technical University of Darmstadt(达姆施塔特工业大学);Microsoft(微软)
MonoHair: High-Fidelity Hair Modeling from a Monocular Video
Zhejiang University(浙江大学);ETH Zurich(苏黎世联邦理工学院);Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems(马克斯·普朗克智能系统研究所);City University of Hong Kong(香港城市大学);Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(香港科技大学)
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems(马克斯·普朗克智能系统研究所);ETH Zürich(苏黎世联邦理工学院);University of Tübingen(图宾根大学);Technical University of Darmstadt(达姆施塔特工业大学);Tübingen AI Center(图宾根人工智能中心);Max Planck Institute for Informatics(马克斯·普朗克信息学研究所)
NeuralFur: Animal Fur Reconstruction From Multi-View Images
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems(马克斯·普朗克智能系统研究所);ETH Zürich(苏黎世联邦理工学院);Technical University of Darmstadt(德累斯顿技术大学);University of Tübingen(图宾根大学)