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 2008. 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 award: Khalid Niazi recieved the best paper award at an international conference, MDA'08.
This year, Docent Ingela Nyström was elected Second Vice President of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). This is in continuation of the activities since 2000 as Board Member (President 2002-2006) of the Swedish Society for Automatic Image Analysis (SSBA) and one of its representatives in the Governing Board of the IAPR. Professor Stefan Seipel has served as Vice-chair of the Swedish Society for Computer Graphics (SIGRAD). Professor Ewert Bengtsson continued 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. Professor Gunilla Borgefors is one of three Area Editors for the Journal ``Pattern Recognition Letters''.
To give some figures: We were involved in arranging a workshop at the well-reputed MICCAI 2008 conference. We held as many as 20 seminars outside CBA, most in the Uppsala area, but also in France, India, and Serbia. We had nine invited seminars at CBA, from Finland, France, Italy, Serbia, Sweden, and the USA. In addition, we held 33 seminars in our ``Monday seminar series'', of which five were Master Thesis presentations. We gave four special invited talks, six oral and three poster presentations at international fully reviewed conferences, and ten other oral conference presentations. We had two long-term visitors from abroad, both from Serbia. In addition, Joakim Linblad has spent several longer visits at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. We have also received a large number of national and international short-term visitors at many different occasions and have often visited others ourselves.
Finally, we have listed 29 international and 41 national ``committees'' of the most varying types in which we have served.