A Statistical Consistency Check for the space carving algorithm

This paper investigates the use of the Space Carving algorithm with outdoor image sequences, using a lambertian lighting model. A new consistency function is proposed that uses a statistical comparison in-stead of the voxel centroid sampling that was initially proposed. This is important when there is more detail in the images than can be stored in a voxel representation. The new function is evaluated using synthetic data and real image sequences.