We developed a method to acquire the 3D shape of opaque objects. We
improved the photometric stereo method so that it will be less sensitive
to shadows and specular reflections.
Photometric Stereo beyond Glass: Active Separation of Transparent Layer
and Five-Light Photometric Stereo with M-Estimator Using Laplace
Distribution for a Virtual Museum
Daisuke Miyazaki, Kenji Hara, Katsushi Ikeuchi
in Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Photometric
Analysis For Computer Vision (PACV2007)