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Geometric Transformation

A family of operations that rearranges image coordinates to apply scaling, rotation, translation, and perspective changes.

Geometric transformations are used in computer vision for preprocessing, augmentation, and alignment. Operations such as scaling, rotation, translation, affine transforms, and perspective correction all belong to this family. They play a foundational role in document rectification, camera calibration, OCR, and object alignment tasks. In many cases, proper spatial consistency depends on data geometry quality even before model architecture enters the picture.