Real-Time Neural Hair G-Buffer Anti-Aliasing

1University of Manchester  2LIGHTSPEED
SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 (Conference Track)
Teaser

We showcase the anti-aliasing results of our method given severely undersampled strand-based hair G-buffers. Compared with TAA, DLSS, and FSR, our approach better preserves sparse hair silhouettes and fine strand details, producing results closer to the high-sample reference. Insets show the corresponding error maps, and red boxes indicate zoomed regions.

Abstract

We propose a lightweight real-time method for reconstructing strand-based hair G-Buffers from severely undersampled rasterized inputs. Our pipeline first applies neural spatial reconstruction and temporal accumulation to recover hair coverage, i.e., fractional hair visibility within a pixel, and tangent. It then uses a tangent-guided reconstruction step to complete the position, which is subsequently used for physically based deferred hair shading. We evaluate our method across a diverse set of hairstyles, including straight, wavy, afro, and ponytail styles, under both static and dynamic scenarios. Our method achieves higher hair reconstruction quality than existing hair-specific denoising techniques and general industrial neural reconstruction solutions such as DLSS and FSR.

Results

1. Comparisons of different static hairstyles.

Comparisons of different static hairstyles

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