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 instead 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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: BMVC
• Authors: Adrian Broadhurst, Roberto Cipolla
• Keywords: BMVC 2000, Computer Vision, Image Sequences, Outdoor Image Sequences, Voxel Centroid Sampling