Argus : Instrumentation for Rapidly Acquiring Dense Pose Imagery

This paper motivates and describes the thesis work that will be done as part of the author's Master of Engineering degree requirements. We present the primary thesis of the work: it is desirable, feasible, and practical to build a device for rapidly acquiring dense pose image datasets. Pose images are digital images tagged with estimates of the camera's 6 degreeof-freedom (DOF) position and orientation (pose). We describe how such a device is useful for building an end-to-end system which can automatically reconstruct three-dimensional (3D) models of the real world. We list the tasks that will be performed for the author's thesis, including a central deliverable of the thesis: a pose image data set acquired using Argus. Argus is a device which is designed to rapidly acquire large pose image data sets.