Buzzwords

Disparity map: Relative difference in depth between objects.

Optical Flow: the apparent motion of objects, surfaces, and edges caused by the relative motion of the observer and a scene.

Point Cloud: A set of data points in a coordinate system in Cartesian space.

Point Cloud Library (PCL): An open-source library for processing point clouds.

Robot Operating System (ROS): Collection of tools, libraries, and conventions made to make creating robust robots easier.

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM): Concerned with problem of building a map of an unknown environment and navigating it using said map. You can break it up into smaller problems: landmark extraction, state estimation, data association, and updating landmarks and states.

Stereo: a stereo camera is a camera with 2+ lenses to simulate human vision -> can sense depth and create 3D images. Stereo by itself probs means 2+ cameras to do the same thing.

Structure from Motion (SfM): Estimating 3D structure from sequential 2D image sequences.