Image rectification

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From wiki: ‘Image rectification is a transform process used to project images onto a common plane.’

Can anyone explain it in simple terms as I fail to actually understand what they mean

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Imagine you have two cameras. The cameras are not in the same place. But they are both looking at the same thing. When they take pictures, they will take pictures of the same thing. But the pictures will look different because the cameras are looking at it from different places.

But perhaps you want to compare the pictures of the thing. So it might be useful to manipulate the images you took in a way so that you get two manipulated images that try to show the thing as if the pictures were taken from a camera at the same position.

The distortion you need to do to these pictures to achieve that is image rectification. It involves skewing, rotation, and stretching the starting images.

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