First of all, what is homography? Let's read a definition from the internet:
"A relation between two figures, such that to any point of the one corresponds one and but one point in the other, and vice versa. Thus, a tangent line rolling on a circle cuts two fixed tangents of the circle in two sets of points that are homographic."
If you – like the authors of this book – are none the wiser from the preceding definition, you will probably find the following explanation a bit clearer: homography is a condition in which two figures find each other when one is a perspective distortion of the other.
First, let's take a look at what we want to achieve so that we can fully understand what homography ...
