MoCap for the Face Without Markers

Markerless is a development by the company Motek Entertainment. It is intended to make video-based facial capturing possible without markers and keyframing.
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The capture speed of the technology is said to be 60 or 120 fps. The technology works in visible light or via infrared and is intended to be integrated into the Vicom system for full-body MoCap. Markerless is intended to be compatible with all 3D packages and game engines, and a morph and blendshape workflow is also intended to be possible with it.

The Dutch company Motek Entertainment released a preview of Markerless in cooperation with Dynamixyz and Ivo Diependaal to demonstrate the possibilities of the tool:

Recorded at 60fps in the infrared spectrum:

The final result then looks like this: