March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
366 pages
9h 8m
English
The pinhole camera model is a simplification of a real camera in which there is no lens and the camera aperture is approximated by a single point (the pinhole). The formulas described here also hold exactly for a camera with a thin lens as well as describing the main parameters of any usual camera.
When viewing a real-world 3D scene (such as a tree), light rays pass through the point-sized aperture, and fall on a 2D image plane inside the camera, as seen in the following diagram:

In this model, a 3D point with coordinates (X, Y, Z) is mapped to a 2D point with coordinates (x, y) that lies on the image ...
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