Committees

Ewert Bengtsson
International:

• Editorial board member of the journal Machine Graphics & Vision, 1994-
  Comment: Published by Polish Academy of Sciences
• Editorial board member of the journal Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 1995-
  Comment: Published by Elsevier
• Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2004-
  Comment: Member since 1974.
• Member of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
• Member of Eurographics, the European Association for Computer Graphics, 1998-
• Member of the International Society for Analytical Cytology (ISAC), 2000-
• Programme Committee of European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 2007
• Programme Committee of the International Conference on Mass-Data Analysis of Images and Signals in Medicine, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Food Industry, MDA 2008
• On the EU Project ENLIGHT Program Management Board
• Member of the European Research Council Advanced Grants Panel, 080424 
  Comment: Served on one of the panels that ranked proposals for the ERC first call for senior investigators (2 2 day meetings)
• Opponent and dissertation committee member of Erlend Hodneland, Dept. of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, 081209 
  Comment: Title: Biomedical image processing in the study of living cells

National:

• Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Section VII: Basic and Interdisciplinary Engineering Sciences. 200610-
  Comment: (6 meetings)
• Member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (Kungliga Vetenskapssocieteten), 199809-
  Comment: Elected member of the oldest scientific society in Sweden. (2 meetings)
• Chair of Uppsala University IT Council, 2008-
  Comment: The IT Council is responsible for coordinating all aspects of IT usage and development at UU. The board has about 15 members. 4 meetings and additionally 5 preparatory and follow up meetings.
• Advisor to the Rector on Information Technology at UU, 199802-
  Comment: One of five advisors appointed to lead the strategic planning of UU and give advice to the Rector.
• Member of the Board of UpGIS, the net for Geographical Information Systems at UU, 199904-
  Comment: (7 meetings.)
• Member of the UU student cooperation group, 2000-
  Comment: A group where the leadership of the university and the student unions meets to discuss matters of common interest. (4 meetings.)
• Member of the board of the Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science (UPPMAX), 200303-200812
  Comment: (8 meetings.)
• Board of EHealth Centre, UU, 200508-200806 
  Comment: Member of the board representing the Faculty of Science and Technology.
  (5 meetings)
• Member of the scientific board of Hillevi Fries Research Scholarship Foundation.
  Comment: A Swedish foundation that accepts applications and gives out research grants for urology research. The board has three members. (2 meetings.)
• Expert evaluator for grant applications to the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, STINT
• On the cooperation group for units supporting IT in learning at UU 200710-
  Comment: (3 meetings)
• On the reference group for Open Access Publications at UU 2008-
  Comment: (3 meetings)
• Non-voting member of the UU Library Board 200711-
  Comment: (1 meeting)
• On the Department Head Council of Polacksbacken, ``Prefektrådet''
  Comment: (2 meetings)
• On a planning group for an application to the Wallenberg Foundation on IT in learning together with Stanford University.
  Comment: (12 meetings)
• Auditor for Swedish Society for Image Analysis (SSBA), 2004-
• Dissertation committee of Björn Svensson, Centre for Medical Image Science and Visualization, Linköping University, 080418
  Comment: Title: A multidimensional filtering framework with applications to local structure analysis and image enhancement
• Dissertation committee of Maycel Isaac Faraj, School of Information Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering (IDE), Halmstad University, 080916 
  Comment: Title: Lip-Motion Biometrics for Audio-Visual Identity Recognition

Gunilla Borgefors
International:

• Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), 2007-
  Comment: Senior member since 1998
• IEEE Computer Society 2008 Fellows Evaluation Committee
• Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 1998-
• Member of the Advisory Committee of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 2006-2008
• Area editor of the journal Pattern Recognition Letters, 2004-
  Comment: On the editorial Board since 1998. Published by Elsevier.
• Editorial Board member of the journal Image Processing and Communications, 1994-
  Comment: Published by the Institute of Telecommunications, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
• Editorial Board member of the journal Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: Advances in Mathematical Theory and Applications, 1993-
  Comment: Published by Interperiodica Publishing in cooperation with the ``Cybernetics'' Scientific Council, Russian Academy of Sciences.
• Editorial Board of the book series Computational Imaging and Vision, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003-
• Steering committee for Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI) conferences, 2000-
  Comment: DGCI 2008 took place in Lyon, France, April 2008.
• Publication committee for 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'08), Tampa, FL, USA, 2008
• ``Rapporteur'' on the committee for the habilitation of David Coeurjully, LIRIS laboratory, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France, 071205 
  Comment: Title: Algorithms for analysis and modelling in discrete geometry (in French)

National:

• Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (Kungliga Vetenskapssocieteten), Member No. 19, 2000-
  Comment: Elected member of the oldest scientific society in Sweden (founded 1710), (4 meetings.)
• Member of Swedish Parliamentarians and Scientists, 1987-
  Comment: Members are elected. Only one scientist per field admitted.
• Nomination Committee, Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis (SSBA)
• Vice chair of Appointments board, Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU, 199907-
  Comment: (5 meetings.)
• The Prize and Reward committee of the Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU, 2006-
  Comment: (2 meetings)
• Deputy member of the Docent committee, Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU, 2007-
  Comment: (1 meeting)
• Language committee, TN-faculty, UU, 200610-2008 
  Comment: The main task of this committee is to encourage the use of good written and spoken Swedish at the faculty, especially regarding under-graduate education (8 meetings.)
• Celsius-Linné committe, TN-faculty, UU, 200705- 
  Comment: The committee selects the speakers for the annual Celsius and Linné lectures (1 meeting.)
• Member of the Board of UpGIS, the net for Geographical Information Systems at UU, 199904-
  Comment: Representing TN-faculty, UU
• Opponent at dissertation of Klas Folkesson, Dept. of Radio and Space Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, 080509 
  Comment: Title: Model-based stem volume retrieval and windthrow detection using CARABAS and P-band SAR
• Opponent at dissertation of Christina Olsén, Dept. of Computing Science, Umeå University, 080605 
  Comment: Title: Towards automatic image analysis for computer aided mammography
• Dissertation committee of Lars Winkler Pettersson, Dept. of Information technology, UU, 080201 
  Comment: Title: Colloborative Visualization: Designing and evaluating systemes for co-located work
• Dissertation committee of Jacob Sternby, Dept. of Mathematics, Lund University, 080530 
  Comment: Title: Template based recognition of on-line handwriting
• Dissertation committee of Hartwig Fronthaler, School of Information Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering, Halmstad University and Chalmers University of Technology, 080924 
  Comment: Title: Improving fingerprint biometrices by local symmetry and fusion

Ingela Nyström
International:

• 2nd Vice President of the Executive Committee, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 2008-2010
• Governing Board Member, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 2002-
• Programme Committee Member of the 14th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2008), Lyon, France, 200801-04
• Programme Committee Member of the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2008 (ICPR 2008), Tampa, Florida, 200801-12

National:

• Board Member of Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis (SSBA), 2000-
  Comment: President 2002-2006
• Board Member of the Swedish University computer NETwork (SUNET), 2008-2010
• Member of the Evaluation Panel for grant applications to the Swedish Research Council: Natural and Engineering Sciences -- Biomedical Engineering
• Dissertation Committee of Robin Strand, Centre for Image Analysis, UU, 081107 
  Comment: Title: Distance Functions and Image Processing on Point-Lattices with Focus on the 3D Face- and Body-centered Cubic Grids

Stefan Seipel
National:

• Board Member of the SIGRAD organisation, Svenska föreningen för grafisk databehandling, 2004
• Expert evaluator for a senior lecturer position, Human-Computer Interaction, KTH, 0806-09
  Comment: 8 applicants.
• Dissertation committee of Jimmy Johansson, Linköping University, 080530
  Comment: Title: Efficient Information Visualization of Multivariate and Time-Varying Data

Ida-Maria Sintorn
National:

• Board member of Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis (SSBA), 2008-

Stina Svensson
International:

• IAPR-TC18 discrete geometry, 061117-2008
  Comment: Vice-chair (one of two) for Technical Committee no. 18 of IAPR.
• Steering committee member of Discrete Geometry and Computer Imagery 2008 (DGCI'08), 0801-04

Carolina Wählby
International:

• Dissertation committee of Jyrki Selinummi, Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Finland, 081203 
  Comment: Title: On algorithms for two and three dimensional high throughput light microscopy