Lighting Hair From The Inside: A Thermal Approach To Hair Reconstruction

Keywords: 3d reconstruction, hair modelling, image-based modelling, thermal imaging

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• rendered hair geometry (AVI video, 6.4 MB)

Bibtex

@INPROCEEDINGS{lay2012,
     author = {Lay Herrrera, Tomas and Zinke, Arno and Weber, Andreas},
      title = {Lighting Hair From The Inside: A Thermal Approach To Hair Reconstruction},
  booktitle = {ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings SIGGRAPH Asia 2012)},
     volume = {31},
     number = {6},
       year = {2012},
      month = dec,
   keywords = {3d reconstruction, hair modelling, image-based modelling, thermal imaging},
   abstract = {Generating plausible hairstyles is a very challenging problem. Despite
               recent efforts no definite solution was presented so far. Many
               of the current limitations are related to the optical complexity of
               hair. In this paper we present a technique for hair reconstruction
               based on thermal imaging. By using this technique several issues
               of conventional image-based techniques, such as shadowing and
               anisotropy in reflectance, can be avoided. Moreover, hair-skin segmentation
               becomes a trivial problem, and no special care about
               lighting has to be taken, as the hair is "lit from inside" with the
               head as light source. The capture process is fast and requires a single
               hand-held device only. The potential of the proposed method is
               demonstrated by several challenging examples.},
        doi = {2366145.2366160}
}