How to rotate a camera to point to an object on the screen

asked 2017-08-20 16:00:03 -0600

davidparks21 gravatar image

updated 2017-08-20 16:01:07 -0600

I have a camera which points in a direct, I have a unit vector C which describes the orientation of the camera in world coordinates.

There is a point of interest in the image taken by the camera. Given the field of view of the camera and image size, I can compute two vectors in pixel space:

A, the principal point (center point of the image), and

B the point of interest in pixel space.

I want to rotate the camera C (in world coordinates) such that it now points at the object represented on screen by B

It's unclear to me how to transition between the on-screen pixel-space orientation of vectors A and B and the world space vector C.

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You need to calculate transformation matrix to be able to convert pixel to world and vice versa.

Ziri gravatar imageZiri ( 2017-08-21 04:18:49 -0600 )edit

Is that a 4D transformation matrix? It's been a while since I studied that and I don't remember the details extremely well. And once I have the transformation matrix, do I move the world space vectors to pixel space, perform the rotation, then apply the transpose of the transformation matrix again?

davidparks21 gravatar imagedavidparks21 ( 2017-08-22 11:05:12 -0600 )edit
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