fixation point

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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In a camera, the fixation point is where the camera is 'looking'. That is the point in the world that is at the centre of the camera image.

Used in Chap. 15: page 251

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Auklet flock, Shumagins 1986. Source: D. Dibenski, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons