ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Camera resectioning

Okay, imagine you're playing a big game of hide-and-seek, and you're the seeker. You need to find all your friends who are hiding somewhere in the park. To help you, you have a special camera that can take pictures of everything around you.

But here's the thing - you don't know exactly where your camera is pointing. You know that your friends are somewhere in the park, but you don't know their exact location. And because you don't know where your camera is pointing, you don't know where your friends are in your pictures, either.

That's where camera resectioning comes in. It's a way to figure out exactly where your camera is pointing so you can locate your friends in the pictures.

To do this, you need to take pictures of some things that you know the exact location of. Let's say you take a picture of a tree that you know is in the center of the park. Using some fancy math and measurements, you can use this picture to figure out exactly where your camera is and which direction it's pointing in.

Once you know this, you can use your pictures to find your friends. You can scan through the pictures and see if you spot them anywhere in the frame. And if you do, you can figure out exactly where they were standing in the park.

So, that's camera resectioning in a nutshell - it's a way to figure out where your camera is pointing so you can locate things in your pictures. Just like how finding your friends in hide-and-seek is easier once you know where you're standing!