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This document discusses the fundamentals of image formation in a camera. It explains that a camera creates an image by measuring the amount of light captured at each pixel. It then discusses the pinhole camera model and how the pinhole camera inverts the image, but that software can flip the image to correct this. It also explains some perspective phenomena like parallel lines converging to a vanishing point and nearer objects appearing lower and bigger in the image.

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This document discusses the fundamentals of image formation in a camera. It explains that a camera creates an image by measuring the amount of light captured at each pixel. It then discusses the pinhole camera model and how the pinhole camera inverts the image, but that software can flip the image to correct this. It also explains some perspective phenomena like parallel lines converging to a vanishing point and nearer objects appearing lower and bigger in the image.

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Fundamentals of Image Formation

Lecture 2 Jitendra Malik

A camera creates an image

The image I(x,y) measures how much light is captured at pixel (x,y)
We want to know Where does a point (X,Y,Z) in the world get imaged? What is the brightness at the resulting point (x,y)?

The Pinhole Camera

Let us prove this


(This diagram is for the special case of a point P in the Y-Z plane)

Let us prove this


(This diagram is for the special case of a point P in the Y-Z plane)

The Pinhole Camera

The image is inverted


This was pointed out by Kepler in 1604

But this is no big deal. The brain can interpret it the right way. And for a camera, software can simply flip the image top-down and right-left. After this trick, we get

From Descartes(1637), La Dioptrique

Some perspective phenomena

Parallel lines converge to a vanishing point

Nearer objects are lower in the image

Nearer objects look bigger

Parallel lines converge to a vanishing point

Proof
Let there be a point A and a direction vector D in three dimensional space.

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