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Epipolar geometry is the relationship between two images of the same scene. It describes how the projections of the same point in 3D space relate to each other in the two images. Epipolar geometry is fundamental to any computer vision technique that uses multiple images.

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Fusiello, A. (2024). Two-View Geometry. In: Computer Vision: Three-dimensional Reconstruction Techniques. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34507-4_6

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