Automatic Dwelling Segmentation of the Buenos Aires Province for the 2010 Argentinian Census

The authors thank the Dirección de Estadística from the Province of Buenos Aires for taking the initiative to explore the concept of dwelling segmentation with automated techniques. The authors also thank Fernando Aliaga, head of geographical information systems, for the 2010 census in the Province of Buenos Aires, and to his team for their collaboration in key aspects of this study. The authors gratefully acknowledge Rodrigo Sotelo, Andrés Weintraub, Kenneth Rivkin, and Jaime Miranda for their insightful remarks on this paper. Finally, the authors thank the anonymous reviewers, the associate editor, and the editor-in-chief for their constructive comments, which greatly helped to improve this work. This project was partially funded by the Ministerio de Economía de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Partial funding was also provided by ANPCyT [PICT-2007-00518], CONICET [PIP 112-200901-00178], and UBACyT [20020090300094 and 20020100100980] (Argentina), and by FONDECyT [1110797] and the Millennium Science Institute Complex Engineering Systems in Chile.