Camera geometry Lecture
Our dream to make machines sense and perceive (notably see) comes true: nowadays Computer Vision enables diverse applications:
-Autonomous Systems (cars, drones, vessels) Perception,
-Robotics Perception and Control,
-Intelligent Human-Machine Interaction,
-Anthropocentric (human-centered) Computing,
-Smart Cities/Buildings and Assisted living.
Computer Vision, coupled with AI (notably Machine Learning and Deep Neural Network) advances hit the news almost every day.
After a brief introduction to image acquisition and light reflection, the building blocks of modern cameras will be surveyed, along with geometric camera modeling. Several camera models, like pinhole and weak-perspective camera model, will subsequently be presented, with the most commonly used camera calibration techniques closing the lecture.