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A projection is an image of a geometric figure, with or without its appearance property, reproduced on a line, a plane, or a surface. It is usually a mapping from a higher dimensional space to a lower dimensional subspace. A camera performs a projection from a 3D scene to a 2D picture. See related concepts listed above.
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Zhang, Z. (2014). Projection. In: Ikeuchi, K. (eds) Computer Vision. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-31439-6_117
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