• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.3983-3991
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• 2013

Census transform is one of the stereo vision methods which is robust to radiometric distortion and illuminance change. This paper proposes a hybrid census transform using the mini census transform and the generalized census transform concurrently. This method uses simplicity of mini census transform and noise feature of generalized census transform together. This paper performed stereo matching containing post processing to evaluate each methods. The result shows that hybrid census transform has similar performance to generalized census transform and mean value of calculation complexity between mini census transform and generalized census transform.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.67-80
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• 2011

Choropleth mapping of population distribution is based on the assumption that people are uniformly distributed throughout each enumeration unit. Dasymetric mapping technique improves choropleth mapping by refining spatially aggregated data with residential information. Further, pycnophylactic interpolation can upgrade dasymetric mapping by considering population distribution of neighboring areas, while preserving the volumes of original units. This study proposed a combined solution of dasymetric mapping and pycnophylactic interpolation to improve the accuracy of population density distribution. Specifically, the dasymetric method accounts for the spatial distribution of population within each census unit, while pycnophylactic interpolation considers population distribution of neighboring area. This technique is demonstrated with 1990 census data of the Athens, GA. with land use land cover information derived from remotely-sensed imagery for the areal extent of populated areas. The results are evaluated by comparison between original population counts of smaller census units (census block groups) and population counts of the grid map built from larger units (census tracts) aggregated to the same areal units. The estimated populations indicate a satisfactory level of accuracy. Population distribution acquired by the suggested method can be re-aggregated to any type of geographic boundaries such as electoral boundaries, school districts, and even watershed for a variety of applications.