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An image is a two dimensional projection of a three dimensional world. The big problem with this projection is that big distant objects appear the same size as small close objects. For people, and robots, it’s important to distinguish these different situations. Let’s look at how humans and robots can determine the scale of objects […]

How is an image formed? The real world has three dimensions but an image has only two. We can use linear algebra and homogeneous coordinates to understand what’s going on. This more general approach allows us to model the positions of pixels in the sensor array and to derive relationships between points on the image […]

How is an image formed? The real world has three dimensions but an image has only two: how does this happen and what are the consequences? We can use simple geometry to understand what’s going on.

Color is an important characteristic of objects in our world and useful in distinguishing between objects. Let’s talk about where color comes from and how we can describe it.

A robot can use a camera to capture an image of the world. The image contains millions of pixels, but the value of each pixel is not particularly informative about what’s present in the scene. We need a more concise or ‘higher level’ way to represent the information, and this is what we refer to […]

We will consider a very powerful group of functions, spatial operators, where each output pixel is a function of the corresponding input pixel and its neighbours.

An important class of operations are monadic, which map an input image to an output image of the same size by applying the same function to every pixel.

Once a digital image exists as a matrix in the MATLAB workspace we can manipulate it to extract information that a robot could use. We will discuss some fundamental algorithms that operate on single images.

Digital images are everywhere: in your phone, on your hard drive, on the internet. We can access still pictures, movies and streams from live cameras all around the world. Let’s talk about digital images and how we can get them into the MATLAB environment where we can work on them.

Vision is a critically important sense for humans and, in fact, for almost all animals. If it’s useful to us then surely it would be a useful sensor for robots.