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Most objects reflect the light that falls on them and there are two aspects to this reflection. The first is geometric and concerned with the directions of the light rays: it can be specular reflection from a mirror like surface, or scattered Lambertian reflection from a matte surface. The second is the reflectance function which […]

Let’s recap the important points from the topics we have covered about light, wavelength, spectrums, light sources, reflection, reflectance functions, cone cells, tristimulus and chromaticity space.

We use MATLAB and some Toolbox functions to model the spectrum of a realistic light source, its modification after reflection from a colored object and the response of the cone cells to form a tristimulus response.

Let’s look at how light rays reflected from an object can form an image. We use the simple geometry of a pinhole camera to describe how points in a three-dimensional scene are projected on to a two-dimensional image plane.

Where does color come from? It’s a combination of effects: the light shining on the object, how the object reflects light and the eye that observes it.

Humans have been fascinated by the sense of vision for a long time, but it took a while to figure out how it worked. We now understand that illumination falls on an object and some light is reflected into our eye where it is sensed and interpreted by our brain.

We use MATLAB and some Toolbox functions to find tomatoes on a bush. We convert the color image to chromaticity coordinates, select the pixels that belong to the tomatoes and the perform blob analysis to find the location of the tomatoes.

Light field cameras are now commercially available and capture much more information about the rays of light reflected from the scene. This enables us to perform functions like changing the focus of an image after it has been captured.

We introduce the topic of robotics, the recent history, why we need robots and the future of robots.

We summarise the important points from this lecture.