I'm doing my first paper review and an equation is holding me up. I can't tell if I'm just missing something silly or if the author made a mistake.
Given that:
\sum_{n=1}^{N}s_{n} = 1
The author says that:
\sum_{n=1}^{N}(s_{n} - \frac{1}{N})^{2} = \sum_{n=1}^{N}s_{n}^{2} - \frac{1}{N}
I seem to...
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There's a lot of...
When given an image of a scene of something like a hallway or road (looking down this hallway or road) a vanishing point can be determined. Also, the points on the image must lie on a certain line in the real world environment given by:
x_{im} = f\frac{X}{Z} and y_{im} = f\frac{Y}{Z}
where...
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It's both...
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How do you do the...
This is dealing with computer vision, but the only part I'm having trouble understanding is a step in the matrix math. So it seems appropriate it should go here.
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Homework Statement
Prove that a line in 3D space is imaged to a line on the image plane in a pinhole camera model.
Homework Equations
A 3D point give by (X,Y,Z) will be imaged on the image plane at
x = f(\frac{X}{Z})
and
y = f(\frac{Y}{Z})
where f is the focal point.
The Attempt at...