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Camera Pose Estimation for Beginners

Unlock the spatial intelligence behind AI vision systems.

Learn to find where the camera is located in the real world

Master the geometry behind camera pose, keypoint matching, epipolar constraints, and trajectory visualization with this hands-on course designed for AI vision engineers.

Course Description

Unlock the spatial intelligence behind AI vision systems.

This beginner-friendly course focuses exclusively on camera pose estimation โ€” the key to connecting 2D images with real-world 3D environments. Whether you’re building AR apps, flying drones, or preparing for autonomous systems, learning how to determine a camera’s position and orientation is where it all begins.

๐ŸŽ“ No prior 3D vision experience needed โ€” just your curiosity and a Python-ready mindset.

Camera Pose Estimation for AI Vision Systems gives you a hands-on pathway to mastering spatial awareness in visual computing. Youโ€™ll start from scratch โ€” understanding coordinate frames, capturing data, and estimating camera movement from images โ€” and gradually build up to industry-grade techniques used in AR, robotics, and visual SLAM.

In this practical course, you will:

  • Understand camera translation and rotation principles
  • Explore key pose algorithms like Perspective-n-Point (PnP)
  • Work with feature detection and matching (ORB, SIFT)
  • Implement pose estimation from real-world video and images
  • Visualize pose using 3D axes overlays and transformation maps
  • Debug and improve accuracy using common evaluation metrics

This course is perfect for engineers, developers, and curious learners stepping into the exciting world of spatial AI. It lays the groundwork for future topics like 3D reconstruction, SLAM, and neural rendering.

Course Highlights

๐Ÿ“˜ Modules: 10 hands-on beginner-to-intermediate modules
๐Ÿ” Focus: Purely on camera pose estimation and epipolar geometry
๐Ÿ’ป Code: All examples implemented in OpenCV + Python
๐ŸŽฅ Video Lectures: 8+ hours of guided explanation
๐Ÿ“ Assignments: With visual validation tasks
๐Ÿงช Projects: Pose from chessboard
๐Ÿ“Š Evaluation: Learn real-world pose metrics
๐Ÿง  Deep Learning: Intro to PoseNet & AI methods

๐Ÿ“š Course Modules Overview

  • Module 1: Introduction to Camera Pose Estimation
  • Module 2: Understanding Coordinate Frames
  • Module 3: Epipolar Geometry Intuition
  • Module 4: Keypoint Detection & Feature Matching
  • Module 5: Estimating the Essential Matrix
  • Module 6: Recovering Pose from Essential Matrix
  • Module 7: Triangulation & 3D Reconstruction
  • Module 8: Pose from 3D-2D Correspondences (PnP)
  • Module 9: AI-based Pose Estimation
  • Module 10: Evaluating and Visualizing Pose
  • Module 11: Datasets for Pose Estimation
  • Module 12: Hands-On Projects

๐Ÿงฐ Tools & Libraries Youโ€™ll Master in This Course

Python
OpenCV
Open3D
Matplotlib 3D
MeshLab
PoseNet
Others

Learning Outcomes

  • โ€บ Grasp coordinate systems and camera motion in 3D space
  • โ€บ Implement epipolar geometry concepts from scratch
  • โ€บ Estimate pose using Essential Matrix & PnP techniques
  • โ€บ Visualize pose trajectories and validate pose accuracy
  • โ€บ Use OpenCV functions like solvePnP, findEssentialMat, and triangulatePoints
  • โ€บ Get introduced to deep learning-based pose estimation approaches