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Camera parameters are the parameters used in a camera model to describe the mathematical relationship between the 3D coordinates of a point in the scene from which the light comes from and the 2D coordinates of its projection onto the image plane. The intrinsic parameters, also known as internal parameters, are the parameters intrinsic to the camera itself, such as the focal length and lens distortion. The extrinsic parameters, also known as external parameters or camera pose, are the parameters used to describe the transformation between the camera and its external world.
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In computer vision, in order to understand the environment surrounding us with a camera, we have to know first the camera parameters. Depending on...
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Zhang, Z. (2014). Camera Parameters (Intrinsic, Extrinsic). In: Ikeuchi, K. (eds) Computer Vision. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-31439-6_152
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