Elliptical specularity detection in endoscopy with application to normal reconstruction.

First fully automatic method to exploit specularities in endoscopic 3D reconstruction. Because the design of current reconstruction methods can vary considerably for different applications, our elliptical specularity detection could be of potential interest in clinical practice thanks to its simplicity and generalisability. In particular, the obtained results are promising towards future integration with learning-based depth inference and SfM methods.