02. Image Formation

Primitives and transformations

• 2D Points, 2D lines, cross product, 2D line arithmetic, 2D conics
• 3D Points, 3D planes, 3D lines, 3D quadrics
• 2D transformations, 3D transformations
• Direct linear transform for homography estimation

Geometric image formation

• Origins of pinhole camera
• Projection models
• Orthographic projection
• Perspective Projection
• Chaining transformation & full rank representation
• Lens distortion

Photometric image formation

• Rendering equation
• Diffuse and specular reflection, shading
• Camera lens, optics, DOF
• Chromatic aberration, vignetting

Image sensing pipeline

• Shutter, sensor
• Color filter arrays
• Color spaces
• Gamma compression, image compression