Constitution

The CBA was founded in 1988. In 1995 a re-organization of CBA took place to give it its present constitution. We are now 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 either the faculty of Science and Technology (TN) at UU or at the faculty of Forest science (S) at SLU. CBA is 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 organize and teach many courses, especially those in image analysis and computer graphics. 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.

CBA is thus an independent entity within the TN faculty at UU and within the S faculty at SLU, respectively. It is 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. There has been a vacancy in the board for over a year, but SLU has suggested no replacement. At present the board members are:

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Ewert Bengtsson TN-faculty UU

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Christer Kiselman TN-faculty UU

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Mats Bergström Medical faculty UU

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Raili Raininko deputy UU

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Gunilla Borgefors S-faculty SLU

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vacant S-faculty SLU

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Lennart Norell Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences faculty SLU

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Mats Nylinder deputy SLU

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Nils-Einar Eriksson TCO

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Tommy Lindell SACO

In between Board meetings CBA is headed by a Director, appointed by UU, who also serves as Chairman of the board. Prof. Gunilla Borgefors has served as Director with Dr. Olle Eriksson as deputy Director, both since 1996.

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 loosely organized in four groups: The image analysis group at UU which works mainly with medical applications and is headed by Prof. Ewert Bengtsson; the image analysis at SLU headed by Prof. Gunilla Borgefors, which works with various applications in forestry and industry, as well as in basic research, mostly digital geometry; and the group in aquatic remote sensing at UU, headed by Docent Tommy Lindell; and the scientific visualisation group at UU, headed by Prof. Stefan Seipel (20%) and Docent Ingela Nyström.