Before revision: Amazon previously held a competition focused on bin picking referred to as the "Amazon Picking Challenge", which was held from 2015 to 2017.
After revision: Early work on bin picking made use of Photometric Stereoand the Extended Gaussian Image (EGI)in recovering the shapes of objects and to determine their orientation in spaceAmazon previously held a competition focused on bin picking referred to as the "Amazon Picking Challenge", which was held from 2015 to 2017.