A new approach to reverse engineering based on vision information

Abstract The shaded imaging process is a new surface reproduction technique which allows the user to recover machined surfaces with low labour skill and cost. The technique has the special feature of being non-contact, and offers a competitive solution to a variety of applications. This paper introduces the technique within reverse engineering, and explains how it reconstructs 3D shape surfaces from 2D vision information.

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