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 Section, we have listed these activities for the year 2006. 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 once again CBA personnel received an important award: Hamed Hamid Muhammed was apponted the Benzelius award from the Royal Society of Sciences for his PhD thesis entitled Hyperspectral image generation, processing and analysis.
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 is one of three Area Editors for the Journal "Pattern Recognition Letters''.
To give some figures: We held 24 seminars outside CBA, most in the Uppsala area, but also in Serbia. We had twelve invited seminars at CBA, from USA, Italy, Sri Lanka, France, Germany, and Sweden. In addition, we held 29 seminars in our "Monday seminar series'', of which 13 were Master Thesis presentations. We gave two special invited talks, six oral and seven poster presentations at international fully reviewed conferences, and eight other oral conference presentations. We had four long term visitors from abroad, i.e., from France, USA, Germany, and Serbia. 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 36 international and 41 national "committees'' of the most varying types in which we have served.