We have as an aim to keep in contact with our colleagues in academia, with industries based on image analysis or need it in their production, and with society in general.
As a consequence of these aims we give and organise seminars; participate in conferences, generally with refereed oral or poster presentations; receive visitors and make visits, both for long and short stays; and participate in many different committees, both international and national. In the following Sections we have tried to list these activities for the year 2002. We have left out all meetings within ongoing research projects and all lectures we have given or attended as part of the regular educational activities of CBA (see Sections 3, 4, and 5). Still, the lists become quite extensive.
Stina Svensson is one of two founding co-chairs of the International Association for Pattern Recognition Technical committee for Discrete Geometry. Prof. Ewert Bengtsson has served as advisor to the Rector of UU on information technology and also served as Chair of the Virtual Faculty of information technology, together with many other related appointments. Ingela Nyström has served as President of the Swedish Society for Automatic Image Analysis and Stina Svensson as its Secretary and Treasurer. Fredrik Bergholm has been the executive programme Director for the national research programme VISIT.
To give some figures: We held 14 seminars outside CBA, in places from downtown Uppsala to Philadelphia, USA. This is less than last year, but 2001 was exceptional. There were also four lectures held at CBA by scientists from Korea, France/Japan, and USA, respectively. In addition we held 40 seminars in our ``Monday seminar series.'' We have given one special invited presentation at a scientific conference; one oral and eight poster presentations at international reviewed conferences; and 22 other conference presentations. The number of oral reviewed presentations is exceptionally low, but the total number of presentations is higher than usual.
We have had one long term visitors from abroad, both Uganda. Stina Svensson has made two extended visits as guest scientist abroad, in Napoli, Italy, and Delft, The Netherlands. We have also received a large number of national and international visitors at many different occasions and have visited others ourselves.
Finally, we have listed 18 international and 38 national ``committees'' of the most varying types in which we have served.
Except for the comments above, all these figures make 2002 a ``normal'' year for these activities.