Image Geometry
Résumé
This chapter reviews basic geometrical concepts relevant for omnidirectional vision. These comprise the image formation process, with a special emphasis on catadioptric cameras, and a brief discussion on how camera models approximate the image formation process. The distinction between central (or single-viewpoint) and non-central cameras is explained, together with a discussion of the respective advantages. The chapter also reviews the basic building blocks of structure-from-motion, ranging from projection and back-projection to pose and ego-motion estimation. It is then shown that line images are particularly import- ant when studying omnidirectional cameras, for calibration as well as for image match- ing through the epipolar geometry. Dense matching is usually sped up by pre-processing images during a rectification process, which is explained with a particular emphasis on omnidirectional images.
The concepts discussed in this chapter are illustrated in short videos accessible on the Internet (creative commons licence CC-BY-NC-SA). URL’s are provided in the text.
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