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-
• Member of the European Research Council Advanced Grants Panel (ERC) 2008- 
  Comment: During 2010 this appointment involved extensive review work and five days of panel meeting in Brussels.
• Member of the Labex-jury for the French research council, Comment: Taking part in the evaluation of a large number of large research proposals, Nov 2010- Feb 2011.
• Scientific committee for International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics (ICCVG 2010), 100920-100922
• PhD dissertation committee for Frank Faas, 100517 
  Comment: Served on the dissertation committee at Delft University, where the format is that the committee members also do the opposition.

National:

• Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Section VII: Basic and Interdisciplinary Engineering Sciences. 2006-
  Comment: (4 meetings)
• Vice Chair of Section VII of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, 091119 - 
  Comment: (3 meetings)
• Member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (Kungliga Vetenskapssocieteten), 1998-
  Comment: Elected member of the oldest scientific society in Sweden. (5 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. 6 meetings and additionally 6 preparatory and follow up meetings.
• Advisor to the Rector on Information Technology at UU, 1998-
  Comment: One of five advisor appointed to lead the strategic planning of UU and give advice to the Rector, taking part in the Deans-conference (2 meetings each 2 days).
• Member of the Board of UpGIS, the net for Geographical Information Systems at UU, 1999-
  Comment: (5 meetings.) Member of the reference group for UU IT-organisation review Comment: (4 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. (3 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. (1 meeting)
• On the reference group for Open Access Publications at UU 2008-
  Comment: (2 meetings)
• Non-voting member of the UU Library Board 2007-
  Comment: (4 meetings)
• On the Department Head Council of Polacksbacken, ``Prefektrådet''
  Comment: (2 meetings)
• On the Department Head Meetings ``Prefektmöten'' SLU 
  Comment: (3 meetings)
• On a reference group for Uppsala Learning Lab and an advisory group for the editor of the book summarizing 10 years of work promoting IT in learning Comment: (13 meetings)
• Auditor for Swedish Society for Image Analysis (SSBA), 2004-
• Chair of the Evaluation Panel for grant applications to the Swedish Research Council (VR): Natural and Engineering Sciences-Biomedical Engineering, 2009-
  Comment: Four full day meetings, about two weeks of full time work reading applications, more than 200 emails.
• Planning group for SSBA senior strategy day
  Comment: Meeting in Linköping 101102 to plan the new senior strategy day at SSBA conference March 16, 2011
• PhD committee of Shafiq ur Réhman, 100428 
  Comment: Dissertation at UmeåUniversity Digital Media Lab, Department of Applied Physics and Electronics. Thesis title: Expressing Emotions Through Vibration.

Gunilla Borgefors
International:

• Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), 2007-
  Comment: Senior member since 1998.
• IEEE Computer Society Fellows Evaluation Committee, 2008-2010
• Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 1998-
• Member of the Advisory Committee of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 2008-2010
• Member of Nominating Committee of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, 2010-2012
• Area editor of the journal Pattern Recognition Letters, 2004-2010
  Comment: Editor-in-Chief from 110101. 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 Springer, 2003-
• Programme committee for the Workshop on Application of on Digital Geometry and Mathematical Morphology (WADGMM 2010), Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 2010
• Programme committee for International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics (ICCVG2010), Warsaw, Poland, Sep. 2010
• Programme committee for the 15th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2010), Sao Paulo, Brazil, Nov. 2010

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), (5 meetings).
• Swedish Parliamentarians and Scientists, 1987-
  Comment: Members are elected. Only one scientist per field admitted.
• Nomination Committee, Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis (SSBA) -2010
• Vice chair of Appointments board, Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU, 1999-
  Comment: (9 meetings)
• The Prize and Reward committee of the Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU, 2006-
  Comment: (2 meetings)
• Celsius-Linné committee, TN-faculty, UU, 2007- 
  Comment: The committee selects the speakers for the annual Celsius and Linné lectures, (4 meetings).
• Member of the Board of UpGIS, the net for Geographical Information Systems at UU, 1999-
  Comment: Representing TN-faculty, UU.
• Expert committee for Swedish National Agency for Higher Education to evaluate if University Colleages should get Ph.D. examination rights., 2010 
  Comment: The committee evaluated information technology at Halmstad and Skövde University Colleages. We had four days of physical meetings in Stockholm and a number of telephone meetings.
• Expert evaluator for the position of Assistant Professor in Imaging at MedTech West, Chalmers, Göteborg, 100401-100630 
  Comment: 13 applicants.
• Expert for the promotion to Senior lector in Image Analysis and Processing at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 100501-101031 
  Comment: The applicant was not successful, therefore the name is withheld.

Ingrid Carlbom
National:

• Chair of Board, Forskarskolan i Matematik och Beräkningsvetenskap (Graduate School in Mathematics and Computing), UU, 2004-2010
• Member, KK Stiftelsen's workshops on Future of Perceptualization, 2010-2011.

Joakim Lindblad
International:

• Technical Program Committee of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2010, Istanbul, Turkey
• Program Committee of the International Conference on Signal-Image Technology and Internet Based Systems (SITIS) 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Cris Luengo
International:

• Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2010
  Comment: Member since 2001.

• Member of the International Society for Analytical Cytology (ISAC), 2006-

National:

• Program Chair of the Swedish Symposium on Image Analysis (SSBA 2010), Uppsala, Sweden, March 10-12, 2010

Ingela Nyström
International:

• Member of the Executive Committee, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
  - 2nd Vice President 2008-2010
  - Secretary 2010-
• Governing Board Member, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 2002-2010
• Local Arrangements Chair for 5th EGEE User Forum 2010, Uppsala, Sweden, April 12-15, 2010
• Program Committee for Eurographics 2010, Norrköping, May 2010
• Program Committee for ICPR Workshop on Applications of Digital Geometry and Mathematical Morphology 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2010
• Program Committee for 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010), Istanbul, Turkey, August 2010
• Program Committee for 3rd Workshop on UnConventional High Performance Computing (UCHPC'10), Ischia, Italy, August 2010
• Programme Committee for 10th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: New Information Technologies (PRIA-10-2010), St Petersburg, Russian Federation, December 2010

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-
• Board Member of the Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics (LCB), 2009-2010
• General Chair of the Swedish Symposium on Image Analysis (SSBA 2010), Uppsala, Sweden, March 10-12, 2010
• Member of the Evaluation Panel for grant applications for Future Research Leaders at the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF), 100125-100324
• Dissertation committee of Petter Bivall, Dept. of Science and Technology, Linköping University, Campus Norrköping, 101001 
  Comment: Title: Touching the Essence of Life-Haptic Virtual Proteins for Learning.
• Dissertation committee of Magnus Gedda, CBA, UU, 100520 
  Comment: Title: Contributions to 3D Image Analysis using Discrete Methods and Fuzzy Techniques: With Focus on Images from Cryo-Electron Tomography.
• Dissertation committee of Erik Gudmundson, Dept. of Information Technology, Div. of Systems and Control, UU, 100423 
  Comment: Title: Signal Processing in Spectroscopic Applications.

Stefan Seipel
International:

• Program Co-Chair of Eurographics 2010, Shortpapers
• Program Committee Member for the 14th International Information Visualization conference, London, UK, 2010

National:

• Program Committee Member for the Annual Computer Graphics Conference SIGRAD 2010
• Board Member of the SIGRAD organisation, Svenska föreningen för grafisk databehandling, 2004-
• Faculty opponent for the licentiate thesis on "Computer Vision: From Motion Capture to Tabletop Interaction" by Tommaso Piazza, Chalmers University of Technology, June 2010.

Ida-Maria Sintorn
National:

• Board member of Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis (SSBA), 2008- 
  Comment: Treasurer from 2009.
• Member of the Evaluation Panel for grant applications to the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency programme ``Security solutions with ICT''

Robin Strand
International:

• Program committee member, Workshop on Applications of Discrete Geometry and Mathematical Morphology, 100822-100825 
  Comment: WADGMM was an ICPR 2010 pre-conference workshop.

National:

• Half-time review grading committee of Johan Berglund, Dept. of Radiology, UU, 101119 
  Comment: Title: Magnetic resonance imaging of water and fat - advances in chemical shift based separation.
• Local Chair of the Swedish Symposium on Image Analysis (SSBA 2010), Uppsala, Sweden, March 10-12, 2010