Anyma Performance Capture System

The Anyma Performance Capture system, developed by DisneyResearch|Studios in Zurich, is a flexible solution for unconstrained, markerless facial performance capture. Anyma allows the actor freedom to move around, and still produces dense, consistent facial reconstruction at the quality of Medusa. The underlying actor model is built from a small number of Medusa reconstructions.

Anyma can be operated in several scenarios, ranging from a studio setup with an ADR-style booth, to on-set reconstruction with helmet-mounted cameras (HMCs). The flexibility of Anyma allows to operate from as little as one single camera, to many cameras placed around the scene.

Anyma delivers high quality, dense, facial geometry accurately tracked over time, including per-frame eye gazes.  Estimated per-frame skull positions are also provided automatically, removing the need to determine the head pose or HMC stabilization manually, and per-frame jaw positions are estimated from the deforming geometry.