Game-ready 3D hair model from a small set of images

We present a system for creating a hair model that matches a user's hairstyle from images. The model consists of guide hair strands and can be used in a real-time hair simulator. Our goal differs from most previous works that aim to create realistic high-resolution hair for off-line applications or create a mesh of the exterior of the hair volume for image manipulation. Our primary aim is for a user to be able to put his/her hairstyle into game or other real-time applications. By taking photos in eight views of the user's head using a smartphone camera and segmenting the images with some easy-to-use tools, the player will obtain his/her own hair model in NVIDIA's HairWorks, which is a hair simulator used in many games. We show a number of results demonstrating the capabilities of our system in this paper.