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Image Formation Camera Model: Oct 1. 2009 Jaechul Kim, UT Austin

The document discusses image formation in cameras. It describes how a pinhole camera works by using a small opening to block most rays of light, reducing blurring and creating a virtual image on the image plane. Adding a lens focuses all parallel rays to a single point on the film plane located at the focal length, allowing more light to be gathered while maintaining focus compared to a pinhole camera. The document examines how the size of the aperture and use of a lens affect the resulting image.

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Image Formation Camera Model: Oct 1. 2009 Jaechul Kim, UT Austin

The document discusses image formation in cameras. It describes how a pinhole camera works by using a small opening to block most rays of light, reducing blurring and creating a virtual image on the image plane. Adding a lens focuses all parallel rays to a single point on the film plane located at the focal length, allowing more light to be gathered while maintaining focus compared to a pinhole camera. The document examines how the size of the aperture and use of a lens affect the resulting image.

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10/1/2009

Image formation
Camera model
Oct 1. 2009
Jaechul Kim, UT Austin

Image formation

Lets
Let s design a camera
Idea 1: put a piece of film in front of an object
Do we get a reasonable image?

Slide by Steve Seitz

10/1/2009

Pinhole camera

Add a barrier
b i to block
bl k off
ff most off the
h rays
This reduces blurring
The opening is known as the aperture
How does this transform the image?
Slide by Steve Seitz

Pinhole camera
Pinhole camera is a simple model to approximate
imaging process, perspective projection.

Image
plane
Virtual
image

pinhole

If we treat pinhole as a point, only one ray from


any given point can enter the camera.
Fig from Forsyth and Ponce

10/1/2009

Pinhole size / aperture


How does the size of the aperture affect the image
wed get?
Larger

Smaller

Adding a lens

focal point

f
A lens focuses light onto the film
All parallel rays converge to one point on a plane
located at the focal length f
Slide by Steve Seitz

10/1/2009

Adding a lens

A lens focuses light onto the film


All rays radiating from an object point converge to one
point on a film plane.
Image source:
http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/applets/Intro_physics/kisalev/java/clens/index.html

Pinhole vs. lens

A lens focuses rays radiating from an object point


onto a single point on a film plane
Gather more light, while keeping focus; make
pinhole perspective projection practical

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