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Image formation

In this video, QUT robotics professor Peter Corke demonstrates how a central projection model can be used for image formation.

This video explains how to use a central projection model to project a point in the world through the image plane to the origin of a camera.

Here we will describe the relationship between a 3D world point and a 2D image-plane point, both expressed in homogeneous coordinates using a linear transformation – a 3 x 4 matrix.

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