Shiny metal comes back full of holes

Polished stainless, chrome, machined faces — large dropouts or phantom bumps in the cloud

Root cause：Specular reflection LUC-VISION™

Why it fails, and why we are not bound by it

Structured light assumes the surface scatters the projected pattern back. A mirror does not — it sends the pattern elsewhere, leaving dropouts, while interreflections between parts fabricate surfaces that are not there. FMCW reads the frequency difference between the return and the local oscillator instead of the deformation of a pattern, so specular returns carry usable range information.

Measured evidence

Automotive Specular paint

Dent detection on glossy automotive paint

786,432 points

Cultural heritage Reflective metal

Ornament capture on reflective bronze

960,420 points

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