The Projective Camera

The most general mapping from $ {\cal P}^{3}$ to $ {\cal P}^{2}$ is

$\displaystyle \left[\begin{array}{c}
x_{1} \\ x_{2} \\ x_{3}
\end{array}
\rig...
...t]
\left[ \begin{array}{c}
X_{1} \\ X_{2} \\ X_{3} \\ X_{4}
\end{array}\right]
$

where $ (x_{1},x_{2},x_{3})^{T}$ and $ (X_{1},X_{2},X_{3},X_{4})^{T}$ are homogeneous coordinates related to $ {\bf x}$ and $ {\bf X}$ by

$\displaystyle \begin{array}{ccc}
(x,y) & = & (x_{1}/x_{3},x_{1}/x_{3}) \\
(X,Y,Z) & = & (X_{1}/X_{4},X_{2}/X_{4},X_{3}/X_{4})
\end{array}$

The transformation matrix $ {\bf T} = [T_{ij}]$ has 11 degrees of freedom since only the ratios of elements $ T_{ij}$ are important.



Subhashis Banerjee 2008-01-20