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OpenCV Computer Vision Application Programming Cookbook Second Edition

By : Robert Laganiere
Book Image

OpenCV Computer Vision Application Programming Cookbook Second Edition

By: Robert Laganiere

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
OpenCV Computer Vision Application Programming Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Images are generally produced using a digital camera, which captures a scene by projecting light going through its lens onto an image sensor. The fact that an image is formed by the projection of a 3D scene onto a 2D plane implies the existence of important relationships between a scene and its image and between different images of the same scene. Projective geometry is the tool that is used to describe and characterize, in mathematical terms, the process of image formation. In this chapter, we will introduce you to some of the fundamental projective relations that exist in multiview imagery and explain how these can be used in computer vision programming. You will learn how matching can be made more accurate through the use of projective constraints and how a mosaic from multiple images can be composited using two-view relations. Before we start the recipes, let's explore the basic concepts related to scene projection and image formation.

Image formation

Fundamentally, the process...