This paper proposes a new method for reconstruction a shape of skin surface replica from shading image sequence taken with dierent light source directions. Since the shading images include shadows caused by surface height
uctuation, and specular and inter re
ections, the conventional photometric stereo method is not suitable for reconstructing its surface accurately. In the proposed method, we choose intensity data which do not include specular and inter re
ections and self-shadows so that we can calculate accurate normal vector from the selected intensity data using SVD (Singular Value Decomposition) method. The experimental results from real images demonstrate that proposed method is eective for shape reconstruction from shading images which include specular and inter re
ections and self-shadows.