Description:
- Animation
- Virtual avatars
Abstract
USC researchers have created USC-HairSalon, a large 3D hairstyle database. Each hairstyle contains 10,000 hair strands and look evenly distributed. With this technology, new detailed hairstyles can be produced with minimal effort. Virtual avatars created with this are much more realistic than others available on the market.
Benefit
- Create custom avatar hairstyles with minimal effort
- Realistic, evenly distributed hair
- Decreases hairstyle generation time
Market Application
Virtual humans appear frequently in various fields such as movies, virtual reality and video games. To create compelling virtual avatars, the digitization of human hair must gather all the details found in an individual’s hair. Human hair presents highly convoluted structures and spans an extraordinarily wide range of hairstyles. Most of hairstyles in 3D repositories are manually created by various artists and gamers. Hair modeling techniques usually rely on expensive capture devices and significant manual labor. Often multiple views are needed to capture the hair strands. Even with all of this, these hairstyles can lack details needed to make them lifelike.
Publications
Publication: Single-view hair modeling using a hairstyle database, SIGGRAPH 2015
Media:
Other
- Software available
- Experimentally validated
- Available for non-exclusive license