2Image Acquisition

Image acquisition is the initial step used by computers and electronic equipment to form and treat images. Images reflect the objective world in space, time, and other properties. Therefore, image acquisition captures the spatial, temporal, and other information from a scene.

The sections of this chapter will be arranged as follows:

Section 2.1 introduces several camera imaging models (including few approximate projection models), from simple to complex and from special to general.

Section 2.2 describes some binocular imaging modes, including binocular transversal mode, binocular converging mode, and binocular axial mode.

Section 2.3 discusses some basic concepts of photometry, and then introduces a basic brightness imaging ...

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