Name: Gunilla Borgefors
Born: 1952 in Norrköping, Sweden (but Linköping is my home town, lived there 1955-93! )
Nationality: Swedish (and "Öschötte"!)
Languages: Svenska, English, un tres peu de Français
- EDUCATION
- Master of Engineering, Applied mathematics, April 1975
Linköping University, Sweden
- Licentiate of Technology, Applied mathematics, April 1983
Linköping University, Sweden
- Ph.D., Numerical analysis, April 1986
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- Certificate of Proficiency in English, Grade A (= Very Good), June 1987, University of Cambridge, U.K.
- "Docent" in Image Processing, June 1992
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden
- Main course at the Royal Defence College, Spring 1993
Royal Defence College, Stockholm, Sweden
- Master of Journalism, June 2007
Uppsala University, Sweden
- HONOURS
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), Jan. 2008.
- Fellow, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), August 1998.
- Member No. 19, Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (Kungliga Vetenskaps-Societeten), Sep. 2000.
- Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), March 2011
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- European Association for Signal Processing ( EURASIP's ) 1990 Award for the
Best Paper of the Year .
- Swedish Lace Society, 2nd Prize in the design contest to create a bobbin lace souvenir
for the St. Birgitta 700 year anniversary in Vadstena 2003.
- The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, KVA,
The Edlund Prize of 2007
- EMPLOYMENT
- 1975-1981: Dept. of Mathematics, Linköping University, Sweden,
Assistant researcher
- 1982-1993: National Defence Research Establishment, Linköping, Sweden
Project leader for computer vision 1985-93
Part of the strategic planning group for the Dept. of Information Technology 1987-91
Director of Research (= full professor) 1989--
Head of the Division of Information Systems (about 35 persons) 1990-93
- 1993--: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Prof. Image Analysis and Remote Sensing 199304--
Head of Centre for Image Analysis 199608-200507
Member, Appointments Board, Faculty of Forestry 199907--
Member, Docent Board, Faculty of Forestry 200207-200312
- 2005-2010: Uppsala University, Sweden
Head of Centre for Image Analysis 199608-200507
Guest Prof. Image Analysis 200511-201010; 10%
- PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS
- International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
* 1st Vice President 1994-96
* Secretary 1990-1994
* Member of the Nominating Committee 2010--
* Member of the Advisory Committee 2006-2010
* Chair of the Constitution and Bylaws Committee 2000-2004
* Chair of the Membership Committee 1990-2000
* Chair of the Publications and Publicity Committee 1988-1990
* Governing Board member 1988-1994
* Nordic correspondent for the IAPR Newsletter 1998-2003
- Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis
(SSAB)
* President 1988-1992
* Board member 1986-2000
* Nomination Committee 2000-2008
- IEEE, Senior Member 1998-2007, Fellow 2008--
* Fellow evaluation Committee 2008, 2009
- Group of Nordic IAPR chairmen, Founder and Coordinator 1989-1993
- Swedish Parliamentarians and Scientists (RIFO), Member 1987--
- Electorial Board for Swedish Science Council ("Vetenskapsrådet"), Member 2000, 2006
- Evaluation Committee for "Mathematics and Technical Mathematics" of the Science Council 2003
- Electorial Board for Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (FORMAS), Member 2003
- Linköping Folk Music Café Society, Vice President 1986-89
- SUPERVISED STUDENTS
- Doctors
* Ingela Nyström, Ph.D. 19970523 (assistant supervisor)
Title: On Quantitative Shape Analysis of Digital Volume Images
(One of the two Swedish candidates for "Best Nordic Thesis 1996-1997" in image analysis)
* Fredrik Walter, Dr.For. 19991008
Title: Extraction of Forest Stand Parameters from CARABAS VHF SAR Images
(One of the two Swedish candidates for "Best Nordic Thesis 1999-2000" in image analysis)
* Tomas Brandtberg, Dr.For. 19991119
Title: Automatic Individual Tree-Based Analysis of High Spatial Resolution Remotely Sensed Data
(Brandtberg won the 2000 Linné prize)
* Anna Rydberg, Ph.D., 20011109
Title: Multispectral Image Analysis for Extraction of Remotely Sensed Features in Agricultural Fields
* Stina Svensson, Ph.D., 20011123
Title: Representing and Analysing 3D Digital Shape Using Distance Information
* Mattias Moëll, Ph.D., 2001214
Title: Digital Image Analysis for Wood Fibre Images
* Mattias Aronsson, Ph.D., 20021212
Title: On 3D Fibre Measurements of Digitized Paper -
From Microscopy to the Fibre Network
* Xavier Tizon, Ph.D., 20041015
Title: Algorithms for the Analysis of 3D Magnetic Resonance Angiography Images
* Mats Erikson, Ph.D., 20041126
Title: Segmentation and Classification of Individual Tree Crowns in High Spatial Resolution Aerial Images
* Ida-Maria Sintorn, Ph.D., 20050401
Title: Segmentation Methods and Shape Descriptions in Digital Images
* Nataša Sladoje, Ph.D., 20051125
Title: On Analysis of Discrete Sets in 2 and 3 Dimensions
(Won a Benzelius award 2007 from the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala and
one of the two Swedish candidates for "Best Nordic Thesis 2005-2006" in image analysis)
* Ola Weistrand, Ph.D., 20051209 (assistant supervisor)
Title: Global Shape Descriptions on Digital Objects
* Erik Melin, Ph.D., 20080229
Title: Digital Geometry and Khalimsky Spaces
(Won a Benzelius award 2008 from the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala)
* Robin Strand, Ph.D., 20081107
Title: Distance Functions and Image Processing on Point-Lattices
(Won a Benzelius award 2009 from the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala and
one of the two Swedish candidates for "Best Nordic Thesis 2007-2008" in image analysis)
* Maria Axelsson, Ph.D., 20090327
Title: Image Analysis for Volumetric Characterisation of Microstructure
(Won a Benzelius award 2010 from the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala)
* Hanna Uscka-Wehlou, Ph.D. 20090925 (assistant supervisor)
Title: Digital lines, Sturmian words, and continued fractions
(Won a Benzelius award 2010 from the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala)
* Kristin Norell, Ph.D., 20100604
Title: Automatic Analysis of Log End Face Images in the Sawmill Industry
* Anders Larsolle, D.Agr. 20101203 (assistant supervisor)
Measuring and Modelling Parameters from hyperspectral sensors for site-specific crop protection
* Hamid Sarve, Ph.D., 20110923
Title: Evaluation of Osseointegration using Image Analysis and Visualization of 2D and 3D Image Data
- Licentiates
* Anders Forsmoo, 19990506
Title: The Distance Transform Algorithm on General Parallel Computers
* Emma Lindqvist, 19990903
Titel: Automatic and Interactive Information Extraction from Hyperspectral Imagery
* Jakob Nisell, 20001124
Titel: Some Applications of Remote Sensing for Monitoring of Environment and Agriculture
* Filip Malmberg, 20080305
Titel: Segmentation and Analysis of Volume Images with Applications
- JOURNALS
- Pattern Recognition Letters
published by Elsevier, The Netherlands,
Editor-in-Chief 2011--,
Area editor 2004-2010; on editorial board 1998-2004
- Editorial Board:
- Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: Advances in Mathematical Theory and
Applications
published by Interperiodica Publishing in cooperation with the
``Cybernetics" Scientific Council, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1993--
- Image Processing and Communications
published by the Institute of Telecommunications, Bydgoszcz, Poland, 1994--
- Rivista di informatica
published by the Italian Association for Informatics and
Automatic Computation, Milano, Italy, 1994-2001
- Book series Computational Imaging and Vision
published by Springer, 2003--
- CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
(Links to current conferences)
- Steering committee member
* Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI) conferences, 2000--
- Steering committee member
* International Symposium for Mathematical Morphology (ISMM) conferences, 2011--
- General chair:
* 9th Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2000), Uppsala, Sweden, Dec. 2000
- Program committee chair:
* 9th Scandinavian Conf. on Image Analysis (9SCIA), Uppsala, Sweden,
June 1995
* Swedish Society for Automatic Image Analysis 1998 Symposium (SSAB98),
Uppsala, Sweden, March 1998
* 14th Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (14ICPR), track Algorithms & Techniques,
Brisbane, Australia, Aug. 1998
- Program committee area co-chair:
* 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, (ICPR 2010), Track II: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 2010
- Organising committee member :
* First French-Nordic Summer School in Mathematics (EEFN 2001),
Erken (Uppsala), Sweden June 2001
- Publication chair:
* Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA),
Crans-Montana, Switzerland, March 1997
* 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, (ICPR 2008), Tampa, Florida, USA December 2008
- Program committee member:
* The 1987 Workshop on Visual Languages, Linköping, Sweden, 1987
* 10th Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (10ICPR), Atlantic City PA, USA,1990
* Int. Workshop on Visual Form, Capri, Italy, 1991
* 11th Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (11ICPR), The Hague, The Netherlands, 1992
* 8th Scandinavian Conf. on Image Analysis (8SCIA), Tromsø, Norway, 1993
* 2nd IAPR Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'93), Tsukuba, Japan, 1993
* IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'94), Seattle WA, USA, 1994
* Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP'96), Lausanne, Switzerland, 1996
* 1st Int. Workshop on Graph Based Representations (GbR'97), Lyon, France, 1997
* 3rd Int. Conf. on Visual Form, Capri, Italy, 1997
* 10th Scandinavian Conf. on Image Analysis (10SCIA), Lappeenranta, Finland 1997
* 4th Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing, Minsk, Belarus (PRIP'97), 1997
* 7th Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery Conference (DGCI'97), Montpellier, France, 1997
* EUSIPCO 98, Rhodes, Greece, Sept. 1998
* 8th Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI'99), Noisy-le-Grand, France, March 1999
* 5th Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing
(PRIP'99), Minsk, Belarus, May 1999
* 11th Scandinavian Conf. on Image Analysis (11SCIA), Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, June 1999
* Statistical Methods for Image Processing, Uppsala, Sweden, August 1999
* First Int. Workshop on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (IWISPA2000), Pula, Croatia, June 2000
* 8th Int. Workshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR2000), Alicante, Spain,
Aug.-Sep. 2000
* 6th Int. Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing (PRIP'01)
Minsk, Belarus, May 2001
* 4th International Workshop on Visual Form (IWVF4),
Capri, Italy, May 2001
* 3rd Int. Conf. on Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA), Halmstad, Sweden, June 2001
* 12th Scandianvian Conference on Image Processing (SCIA 2001), Bergen, Norway, June 2001
* 2nd IEEE Region 8-EURASIP Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA'01), Pula, Croatia, June 2001
* 16th Int. Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2002), Track 2: Pattern Recognition, Neural Networks, and Document Analysis, Quebec, Canada, Aug. 2002
* 13th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2003), Göteborg, Sweden, June - July 2003
* 3rd Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA 2003), Rome, Italy, Sept. 2003
* Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP'2003), Groningen, Netherlands, August 2003
* 11th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2003), Naples, Italy, Nov. 2003
* 17th Int. Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2004), Track 2: Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks, Cambridge, U.K., Aug. 2004
* 10th Int. Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA), Auckland, New Zealand, Dec. 2004
* 12th Int. Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2005), Poitier, France, April 2005
* Int. Symposion on Mathematical Morphology: 40 years on (ISMM 2005), Paris, France, April 2005
* IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA 2005), Tsukuba Science City, Japan, May 2005
* 8th Int. Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing (PRIP'05), Minsk, Belarus, May 2005
* 1st Int. Symposium on Brain, Vision & Artificial Intelligence (BVIA2005), Napoli, Italy, Oct. 2005
* The Kiselmanfest: An International Symposium in Complex Analysis and Digital Geometry, Uppsala, Sweden, May 2006.
* 11th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis(IWCIA 2006), Berlin, Germany, June 2006
* 18th Int. Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), Track 2: Pattern Recognition and basic technologies, Hong Kong, China, Aug. 2006
*13th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2006), Szeged, Hungary, Oct. 2006
* 9th Int. Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing (PRIP'07)
Minsk, Belarus, May 2007
* 8th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology (ISMM'2007), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 2007
* 14th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI'2008),Lyon, France, April 2008
* 10th Int. Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing (PRIP'09), Minsk, Belarus, May 2009
* 9th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology Groningen (ISMM'09), The Netherlands, Aug. 2009
* 13th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2009), Münster, Germany, Sep. 2009
* 15th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery, Montreal, Canada, Sep.- Oct. 2009
* Workshop on Application of on Digital Geometry and Mathematical Morphology
(WADGMM2010),Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 2010
* International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics (ICCVG2010), Warsaw, Poland, Sep. 2010
* 15th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2010),
Sao Paulo, Brazil Nov. 2010
* 16th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2011), Nancy, France April 2011
* 11th Int. Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing (PRIP 2011), Minsk, Belarus May 2011
* 5th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2011),Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain June 2011
* 10th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology (ISMM 2011), Intra, Lago Maggiore, Italy July 2011
* 14th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2011), Sevilla, Spain Aug. 2011
* 16th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP 2011), Ravenna, Italy Sep. 2011
- PhD COMMITTEES
- Opponent
* Anders Kaestner, Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg and
Halmstad University, Oct. 2002
* Alexander Kolesnikov, Computer Science, University of Joensuu, Finland, Oct. 2003
* Ulf Ekblad, Experimental Particle Physics, Royal Instute of Technology, Stockholm , June 2004
* Rune Holmstad, Chemical Process Technology, Norweigian University of Science and Technology,
Trondheim, Sept. 2004
* Leena Ikonen, Information Technology, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, June 2006
* Klas Folkesson, Radio and Space Science, Chalmers University of Technology,Göteborg, May 2008
* Christina Olsén, Dept. of Computing Science, Umeå University, June 2008
- Member
About 25 times, in the following Countries and Departments:
* Sweden; Australia, Hong Kong, India, Netherlands
* Image Analysis; Mathematics, Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing, Systems and Control,
Forest Resource Management and Geometics, Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Limnology,
Astronomy and Space Physics, Clinical Radiology, Genetics and Pathology
- SPECIAL INVITED TALKS (International only)
- Copenhagen Workshop on Computer Vision, Copenhagen, Denmark, Jan. 1984
Topic: Distance Transformations in 3D imagery
- French-Swedish Seminar on Remote Sensing Kiruna, Sweden, August 1989
Topic: Object Recognition in Digital Imagery
- 851st Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Hoboken NJ, U.S.A.,
Oct. 1989
Topic: Global Distances from Local Operations
- Summer school of Theoretical Physics: Session LVIII NATO Advanced Study
Institute,
Les Houches, France, Aug.-Sept. 1992
Topic: Discrete Representations
- 2nd International Conference on Visual Form, Capri, Italy, June 1994
Topic: Applications of Distance Transforms
- ISPRS Conference: Automatic Extraction of GIS Objects from Digital Imagery,
Münich, Germany, Sep. 1999
Topic: Forest Parameter Extraction from Airborne Sensors
- Ariane project, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France Oct. 2008
Topic: Discrete Distance-based Skeletons in 2D and 3D
- PRIP Conference, Minsk, Belarus May. 2009
Topic: Maximal Balls in Three Dimensional Volume Grids
- VISITING SCIENTIST
- IBM Scientific Center, Palo Alto, CA, U.S.A.
June-Sept. 1975
- Istituto di Cibernetica, National Research Council, Arco Felice/Pozzuoli (Napoli), Italy
Many 1-2 week periods from 1987 onwards.
- Dept. of Computer Science & Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington,
Seattle WA, USA, Jan.-May 1989