Activities

Apart from the activities reported in previous Sections, we also spend much time and effort on outside contacts. These contacts are aimed at colleagues in academia, at industries based on image analysis or need of it, and at society in general. We participate in conferences; give and organize seminars; 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 listed these activities for the year 2004. 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. Still, the lists are quite extensive.

This year CBA personnel received two important rewards: Julia Åhlén got the ``Best industry-relevant paper Award" at the Swedish Symposium on Image Analysis 2004. The paper is selected from all presented at the Symposium by a committee from the industry. Ida-Maria Sintorn, together two colleagues from Karolinska Institut and Royal Institute of Technology, got second prize in an innovation competition awarded by the European Regional Development Fund and three universities in Stockholm.

This year, CBA was host for the annual Swedish Symposium on Image Analysis, where most researchers in image analysis participate and present their work, this year about 100. The conference is the official meeting of the for Swedish Society Automatic Image Analysis (SSBA). A conference proceedings (202 p.) was published. It was the fourth time we organised this meeting, the previous being 1986, 1992, and 1998.

Docent Ingela Nyström has served as President of the Swedish Society for Automatic Image Analysis and one of its representatives in the International association of Pattern Recognition. Prof. Stefan Seipel has served as Vice Chair of Swedish Society for Computer Graphics (SIGRAD). Prof. Ewert Bengtsson continues to serve as advisor to the Rector of UU on information technology and also as Chair of the Virtual Faculty of information technology, together with many other related appointments. Prof. Gunilla Borgefors became one of three Area Editors for the Journal ``Pattern Recognition Letters" and Bengtsson became Senior member of IEEE.

To give some figures: We held 11 seminars outside CBA, most in the Uppsala area. We had four invited seminars at CBA, one from China, one from Australia, and two from Sweden. In addition we held 38 seminars in our ``Monday seminar series'', of which 14 were Master Thesis presentations. We gave three oral and five poster presentations at international fully reviewed conferences - this is much less than usual, but many of our most interesting conferences are biannual on odd years; and nine other conference presentations. We had two long term visitors from abroad, from Spain and China. Ewert Bengtsson has spent a five month sabbatical at University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. We have also received a large number of national and international visitors at many different occasions and have often visited others ourselves.

Finally, we have listed 27 international and 44 national ``committees'' of the most varying types in which we have served.