Simulation-Ready Hair Capture

From Disney Research comes this unique approach to capturing properties and parameters of hair motion rather than the motion itself.

“Physical simulation has long been the approach of choice for generating realistic hair animations in CG. A constant drawback of simulation, however, is the necessity to manually set the physical parameters of the simulation model in order to get the desired dynamic behavior. To alleviate this, researchers have begun to explore methods for reconstructing hair from the real world and even to estimate the corresponding simulation parameters through the process of inversion…”

Read the full paper here.