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Before we can intelligently analyze and manipulate images, we need to establish a vocabulary for describing the geometry of a scene. We also need to understand the image formation process that produced a particular image given a set of lighting conditions, scene geometry, surface properties, and camera optics. In this chapter, we present a simplified model of such an image formation process
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Szeliski, R. (2011). Image formation. In: Computer Vision. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-935-0_2
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