The CBA was founded in 1988. In 1995 a re-organization of CBA took place to give it its present constitution. We are a joint University entity (due to administrative rules, we can not be denoted ``Department'') between UU and SLU. The employees are employed at either university, and the PhD students are admitted at any of the three faculties where we have a PhD program -- Science and Technology (TN) at UU, Forestry (S) and Agriculture, Landscape planning and Horticulture (JLT) at SLU. CBA associated with Dept. of Information Technology (IT) at UU regarding undergraduate education, as we are not directly responsible for undergraduate education at UU, even though we are responsible for and teach many courses. The whole of CBA is administered through UU.
All personnel (from both universities) is employed directly at CBA, except Lecturers at UU. These are employed by IT, and teach there. Their research activities, however, are carried out at CBA to a degree (usually 25%-75%) which is regulated by individual contracts.
The CBA is thus an independent entity within the TN faculty at UU and within the S faculty at SLU, respectively. It is supposed to be directed by a Board appointed by the Vice Chancellor of UU, with representatives from the universities (three each) and the unions (two). The Board is appointed for three years. This period expired in 20010630. A new Board was not appointed until 20030101. Thus we had to manage without this year.
In between Board meetings CBA is headed by a Director appointed by UU and who also serves as Chairman of the board. During this year Prof. Gunilla Borgefors has served as Director, with Olle Eriksson as deputy Director.
According to the founding documents the objective of the CBA is ``to create the know-how needed for an operative and sensible use of digital image analysis in society, particularly in the fields of environment and medicine.'' The research work is organized in three groups: The image analysis group at UU which works mainly with medical applications and is headed by Ewert Bengtsson; the image analysis and remote sensing group at SLU headed by Gunilla Borgefors, which works with various applications in forestry, agriculture, and industry, as well as in basic research, mostly digital geometry; and the group in aquatic remote sensing at UU, headed by Tommy Lindell.