The current work presents a study about methods for 3D object shape reconstruction based on their texture information. These methods, called Shape from Texture, measure texture deformation along object surface, obtaining the orientation in each point of the image. Having the orientation in each point (a needle map) it is possible to construct the object 3D model. Three methods are studied in this dissertation. One of these methods uses Gabor Filters and second order moments, and other two that estimate the affine transform between images patches. The affine estimation problem gets emphasis in the present work since it is an essential step in most Shape from Texture algorithms. The methods were tested in separate steps: evaluate the affine transform estimation; the decomposition of the affine matrix in slant and tilt angles; and the 3D model reconstruction using the needle map. Both synthetic and real images were used on the experiments. The results clearly show the applicability, difficulties and restrictions of the investigated methods.