Selected publications

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Updated March 2018
Scientific papers before 2015 are only listed if they have at least 10 citations.
Scientific papers included in h-index 28 in bold
Scientific papers with more than 200 citations underlined.
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SUBJECTS

Scientific papers
Book chapters
Theses
Edited books
In Swedish (På svenska)

SCIENTIFIC PAPERS - peer reviewed
- G. Borgefors: Chamfering: A fast method for obtaining approximations of the Euclidean distance in N dimensions, Proc. 3rd Scand. Conf. on Image Analysis, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 1983, pp. 250-255
- G. Borgefors: An Improved Version of the Chamfer Matching Algorithm, Proc. 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Montreal, Canada, July 1984, pp. 1175-1177
- G. Borgefors: Distance Transformations in Arbitrary Dimensions, Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, Vol. 27, (1984), pp. 321-345
- E. Jungert, G. Borgefors, J. Fransson, T. Lindgren, L. Olsson, R. Roldan-Prado, E. Toller: Vega - A Geographical Information System, Proc. First Scand. Res. Conf. on Geographical Information Systems, Linköping, Sweden, June 1985, pp. 118-133
- G. Borgefors: Distance Transformations in Digital Images, Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, Vol. 34 (1986), pp. 344-371
- G. Borgefors: A New Distance Transformation Approximating the Euclidean Distance, Proc. 8th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Paris, France, Oct. 1986, Vol. 1, pp. 336-338.
- G. Borgefors: Hierarchical Chamfer Matching: A Parametric Edge Matching Algorithm, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 10, No. 6, Nov. 1988, pp. 849-865
- G. Borgefors, G. Sanniti di Baja: Skeletonizing the Distance Transform on the Hexagonal Grid, Proc. 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Rome, Italy, Nov. 1988, pp. 504-507
- G. Borgefors: Distance Transformations on Hexagonal Grids, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 9, Febr. 1989, pp. 97-105
- G. Borgefors, T. Hartmann, S.L. Tanimoto: Parallel Distance Transforms on Pyramid Machines: Theory and Implementation, Signal Processing, Vol. 21, No. 1, Sept. 1990, pp. 61-86
- G. Borgefors, I. Ragnemalm, G. Sanniti di Baja: The Euclidean Distance Transform: Finding the Local Maxima and Reconstructing the Shape, Proc. 7th Scandianavian Conference on Image Analysis, Aalborg, Denmark, August 1991, pp. 974-981
- G. Borgefors: Another Comment on "A Note on 'Distance Transformations in Digital Images'", CVGIP: Image Understanding, Vol. 54, No. 2, (Sept. 1991), pp. 301-306
- G. Borgefors, G. Sanniti di Baja: Methods for Hierarchical Analysis of Concavities, Proc. 11th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Haag, Netherlands, Aug. 1992, Vol. III, pp. 171-175
- G. Borgefors: Centres of Maximal Discs in the 5-7-11 Distance Transform, Proc. 8th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Tromsø, Norge, May 1993, pp. 105-111
- G. Borgefors, I. Nyström and G. Sanniti di Baja: Computing Covering Polyhedra of Non-Convex Objects, Proc. 5th British Machine Vision Conf. (BMVC94), Ed. E. Hancock, York, England, Sept. 1994, pp. 275-284
- G. Borgefors: Applications Using Distance Transforms, In: Aspects of Visual Form Processing, Eds. Arcelli, Cordella, and Sanniti di Baja, World Scientific, Singapore 1994, pp. 83-108 [Invited paper]
- I. Nyström, G. Borgefors: Synthesising objects and scenes using the reverse distance transformation i 2D and 3D, In: Image Analysis and Processing, Eds. Braccini, De Floriani, and Vernazza, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 974, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1995, pp. 441-446
- G. Borgefors and G. Sanniti di Baja: Analysing non-convex 2D and 3D patterns, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 63, No. 1, Jan. 1996, pp. 145-157
- G. Borgefors, I. Nyström, and G. Sanniti di Baja: A surface skeletonization algorithm for volume objects, In: Advances in Structural and Syntactical Pattern Recognition (SSPR'96), Eds. P. Perner, P. Wang, A. Rosenfeld, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1121, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1996, pp. 251-259
- G. Borgefors: On Digital Distance Transforms in Three Dimensions, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 64, No. 3, Nov. 1996, pp. 368-376
- G. Borgefors, I. Nyström: Efficient Shape Representation by Minimizing the Set of Centres of Maximal Discs/spheres, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 18, No. 5, May 1997, pp. 465-471
- G. Borgefors, I. Nyström, and G. Sanniti di Baja: Connected Components in 3D Neighbourhoods, Proc. 8th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Lappeenranta, Finland, June 1997, pp. 567-572
- G. Borgefors, I. Nyström, and G. Sanniti di Baja: Skeletonizing volume objects part II: From surface to curve skeleton In: Advances in Pattern Recognition (SSPR'98 and SPR'98), Eds. A. Amin et al., Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1451, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1998, pp. 220-229.
- G. Borgefors, G. Ramella, G. Sanniti di Baja, and S. Svensson: Note: On the multi-scale representation of 2D and 3D shapes, Graphical Models and Image Processing, Vol 61 (Jan. 1999), pp. 44-62
- G. Borgefors, I. Nyström, and G. Sanniti di Baja: Computing Skeletons in Three Dimensions, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 32, No. 7. (1999) pp. 1225-1236
- S. Svensson, I. Nyström, G. Borgefors: Fully reversible skeltonization for volume images based on anchor-points from the D^26 distance transform, Proc. 11th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA'99), Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, June 1999, pp. 601-608
- S. Svensson, I. Nyström, G. Borgefors: On reversible skeletonization using anchor points from distance transforms, Int. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Vol. 10 (1999), pp. 379-397
- A. Rydberg, G. Borgefors: Extracting multispectral edges in satellite images over agricultural fields, Proc. 10th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP'99), Venice, Italy, Sept. 1999, pp. 786-791
- G. Borgefors, T. Brandtberg, F. Walter: Forest parameter extraction from airborne sensors, Proc. ISPRS Conf. on Automatic Extraction of GIS Objects from Digital Imagery, Eds. Ebner, Eckstein, Heipke, and Mayer, Münich, Germany, Sep. 1999, International archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Vol. 32, Part 3-2W5, pp. 151-158 [Invited paper]
- G. Borgefors, I. Nyström, G. Sanniti di Baja, S. Svensson: Simplification of 3D Skeletons using Distance Information, In: Vision Geometry IX, Eds, Latecki, Melter, Mount, Wu, Proc. SPIE 4117, San Diego, USA 2000, pp. 300-309
- L. Ballerini, A. Högberg, G. Borgefors, A.-C. Bylund, A. Lindgård, K. Lundström, O. Rakotonirainy, B. Soussi, Testing MRI and image analysis techniques for fat quantification in meat science, In: 2000 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Lyon, France, pp. 18-136 - 18-140
- L. Ballerini, A. Högberg, K. Lundström, G. Borgefors: Colour Image Analysis Technique for Measuring of Fat in Meat: An Application for the Meat Industry, Proc. SPIE Electronic Imaging 2001, San José, CA, USA, Jan. 2001, pp. 113-124.
- G. Borgefors, G. Ramella, G. Sanniti di Baja: Shape and Topology Preserving Multi-valued Image Pyramids for Multi-resolution Skeletonization, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 22, (May 2001), pp. 741-751
- M. Aronsson, Gunilla Borgefors: 2D segmentation and labelling of clustered ring shaped objects, Proc. 12th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA'01), Bergen, Norway, June 2001, pp. 272-279.
- I. Sintorn, G. Borgefors: Weighted distance transforms in rectangular grids, Proc. 11th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP 2001), Palermo, Italy, Eds. E. Ardizzone and V. Di Gesù, Sep. 2001, pp. 322-326
- G. Borgefors, G. Ramella, G. Sanniti di Baja: Hierarchical Decomposition of Multi-Scale Skeletons, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 23, No. 11 (Nov. 2001), pp. 1296-1312
- A. Rydberg, G. Borgefors: Integrated method for boundary delineation of agricultural fields in multispectral satellite images, IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 39, No. 11, (Nov. 2001), pp. 2514-2520
- M. Moëll, G. Borgefors: An image analysis method to measure cross-sectional tracheid dimensions on softwood increment cores, Wood and Fiber Science, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2001, pp. 200-212. #11-->
- L. Ballerini, A. Högberg, G. Borgefors, A.-C. Bylund, A. Lindgård, K. Lundström, O. Rakotonirainy, B. Soussi: A segmentation technique to determine fat content in NMR images of beef meat, IEEE Trans. on Nuclear Science, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Feb. 2002), pp. 195-199
- I. Sintorn, G. Borgefors: Weighted Distance Transforms for images using elongated voxel grids, In: Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2002), Eds. A. Braquelaire, J. Lachaud. A. Vialard, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2301, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2002, pp. 244-254
- G. Borgefors and S. Svensson: Fuzzy border distance transforms and their use in 2D skeletonization, Proc. 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Quebec City, Canada, Aug. 2002, Vol. I, pp. 180-183.
- G. Borgefors and S. Svensson: Distance transforms in 3D using four different weights, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 23, Oct. 2002, pp. 1407-1418
- S. Svensson and G. Borgefors: Digital distance transforms in 3D images using information from neighbourhoods up to 5x5x5, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 88, No. 1, (Oct. 2002), pp. 24-53
- G. Borgefors: Weighted Digital Distance Transforms in Four Dimensions, Discrete Applied Mathematics. Vol. 125, (Jan. 2003), pp. 161-176
- C. Wählby, I. Sintorn, F. Erlandsson, G. Borgefors, E. Bengtsson: Combining intensity, edge, and shape information for 2D and 3D segmentation of cell nucei in tissue sections, Journal of Microscopy, Vol. 215, (July 2004), pp. 67-76
- I. Sintorn, M. Homman, C. Söderberg-Naucler, G. Borgefors: A refined circular template matching method for Classification of Human Cytomegalovirus Capsids in TEM images, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Vol. 76, (2004), pp. 95-102
- I. Sintorn, G. Borgefors: Weighted distance transforms for volume images digitized in elongated voxel grids, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 25, (2004), pp. 571-580
- R. Strand, G. Borgefors: Distance Transforms for Three-Dimensional Grids with Non-Cubic Voxels, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 100, No 3, (2005), pp. 294-311
- I. Sintorn, M. Axelsson, S. Svensson, G. Borgefors: Segmentation of individual pores in paper volume images, Nordic Pulp & Paper Research Journal, Vol. 20, No 3, (2005), pp. 316-319
- R. Strand, B. Nagy, C. Fouard, G. Borgefors, Generating distance maps with neighbourhood sequences. In: Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2006) Eds. A. Kuba et al., Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4245, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2006, pp. 295-307
- M. Axelsson, S. Svensson, G. Borgefors: Reduction of ring artifacts in high resolution x-ray microtomography images, In: Pattern Recognition: 28th DAGM Symposium, Eds. K. Franke, et al., Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4174, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2006, pp. 61-70
- C. Fouard, R. Strand, G. Borgefors, Weighted distance transforms generalized to modules and their computation on point lattices, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 40, No. 9, (2007), pp. 2453-2474
- H. Sarve, C. B. Johansson, J. Lindblad, G. Borgefors, V. Franke-Stenport: Quantification of bone remodeling in the proximity of implants, In: 12th Int. Conf. on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, Ed. W. Kropatch, ' Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4673, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2007, pp. 253-260
- K. Norell, G. Borgefors: Estimation of pith position in untreated log ends in sawmill environments, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Vol. 63, No. 2, 2008, pp.~155--167. -->
- R. Strand, B. Nagy, G. Borgefors: Digital distance functions on three-dimensional grids, Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 412, No. 15, (2011) pp. 1350-1363.
- H. Sarve, J. Lindblad, G. Borgefors, C. Johansson: Extracting 3D information on bone remodeling in the proximity of titanium implants in SRuCT image volumes, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Vol. 102, No. 1, (2011) pp. 25-34.
- G. Kylberg, M. Uppström, K. Hedlund, G. Borgefors, I. Sintorn: Segmentation of virus particle candidates in transmission electron microscopy images, Journal of Microscopy, Vol. 245, No. 2,(2012) pp. 140-147. -->
- V. Curic, C. L. Luengo Hendriks,G. Borgefors: Salience adaptive structuring elements, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol. 6, No. 7, (2012) pp. 809-819.
- H. Sarve, B. Friberg, G. Borgefors, C.B. Johansson: Introducing a novel analysis technique for osseointegrated dental implants retrieved 29 years postsurgery, Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research, Vol. 15, No. 4, (2013) pp. 538-549.
- V. Curic, J. Lindblad, N. Sladoje, H. Sarve, G. Borgefors: A new set distance and its application to shape registration, Pattern Analysis and Applications, Vol. 17, No. 1, Feb. 2014, pp. 141-152. (Online publication Nov. 2012)
- E. L. G. Wernersson, S. Borodulina, A. Kulachenko, G. Borgefors: Characterisations of fibre network in paper using computed tomography images, Nordic Pulp & Paper Research Journal, Vol. 29, No. 3, 2014, pp. 468-475.
- P. K. Saha, R. Strand, G. Borgefors: Digital topology and geometry in medical imaging: a survey, IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging,, Vol. 34, No. 9, 2015, pp. 1940-1964.
- P. K. Saha, G. Borgefors, G. Sanniti di Baja: A survey on skeletonization algorithms and their applications, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 76, June 2016, pp. 3-12
- G. Borgefors: The Scarcity of Universal Colour Names, In:. 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM 2018), Eds. M. De Marisco, G. Sanniti di Baja, A. Fred, Madeira, Portugal, Jan. 2018, pp. 496-502
BOOK CHAPTERS
- G. Borgefors: Discretization - problems and solutions, In: Les Houches session LVIII: Progress in Picture Processing, Eds. H. Maître, J. Zinn-Justin, Elsevier, Amsterdam 1996, pp. 1-80.
- A. Rydberg, G. Borgefors: Extraction of agricultural field boundaries from remotely sensed images, In: Geospatial Pattern Recognition, Eds. E. Binaghi, P.A. Brivio, S.B. Serpico, Research Signpost, Trivandrum, Kerala, India 2002, pp. 57-86.
- G. Borgefors: Digital distance transforms in 2D, 3D, and 4D, In: Handbook of Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, 3rd Edition, Eds. C.H. Chen, P.S.P. Wang, World Scientific, Singapore, 2005, pp. 157-176.
- G. Borgefors, I. Nyström, G. Sanniti di Baja: Discrete skeletons from distance transforms in 2D and 3D In: Medial Representations: Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications, Eds. K. Siddiqi and S. Pizer, Springer-Verlag 2008, pp. 155-190.
- P. K. Saha, G. Borgefors, G. Sanniti di Baja: Skeletonization and its applications - a review In: Skeletonization : Theory, Methods, and Applications, Eds. P.K.Saha, G. Borgefors, G. Sanniti di Baja, Academic Press 2017, pp. 3-42
THESES
- G. Borgefors: On diffusion of particles in circular tubes with absorbing walls, Report LiTH-MAT-EX-75-1; Master Thesis, March 1975
- G. Borgefors: Comparison of Parametric Models for Estimating Maintenance Times from Small Samples, LiTH; Licentiate Thesis, April 1983
- G. Borgefors: On Hierarchical Edge Matching in Digital Images Using Distance Transformations, Report TRITA-NA-8602, Dept. of Numerical Analysis and Computing Science, The Royal Inst. of Technology; Ph.D. Thesis, April 1986
- G. Borgefors: Ögonblick i färg - om seendets natur och naturens seende (Moments in Colour - on the Nature of Vision and Vision in Nature), In: Reportage 2007, Ed. M. Landahl, Uppsala University, pp. 109-123; Master Thesis, Uppsala University, June 2007 [In Swedish]
EDITED BOOKS and Special issues
- G. Borgefors, Editor: Proceedings of the 9th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis, Uppsala, Sweden, June 1995, 1227 p. [ISBN: 91-630-3109-4]
- G. Borgefors, Editor: Theory and applications of image analysis II. Selected papers from the 9th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, World Scientific, Singapore, 1995, 406 p. [ISBN: 981-02-2448-6]
- J. Bigün, G. Chollet, G. Borgefors, Editors: Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication, Springer Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1206, 1997, 450 p. [ISBN: 3-540-62660-3]
- G. Borgefors, I. Nyström, G. Sanniti di Baja, Editors: Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery, Springer Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1953, 2000, 544 p. [ISBN: 3-540-41396-0]
- G. Borgefors, I. Nyström, and G. Sanniti di Baja, Guest Editors: Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol 23, No. 6 (April 2002), Special issue on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery
- G. Borgefors, I. Nyström, and G. Sanniti di Baja, Guest Editors: Discrete Applied Mathematics, Vol 125, (Jan. 2003), Special issue on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery
- C. L. Luengo Hendriks, G. Borgefors, R. Strand, Editors: Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Signal and Image Processing, Springer Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7883, 2013, 532 p. [ISBN: 978-3-642-38293-2]
- P. K. Saha, G. Borgefors, Guest Editors: Pattern Recognition Letters Vol. 76, (June 2016) Special Issue on Skeletonization and its Applications
- P. K. Saha, G. Borgefors, G. Sanniti di Baja, Editors: Skeletonization : Theory, Methods, and Applications Academic Press (Elsevier), London, San Diego, Cambridge, Oxford 2017, 392 p., [ISBN: 978-0-08-101291-8]
PÅ SVENSKA (In Swedish)
- G. Borgefors, U. Hjorth, A. Lundqvist: Förebyggande - avhjälpande underhåll, Verkstäderna, nr. 15, nov. 1978, s. 53-57.
- G. Borgefors: Bildbehandling: Från satellit till karta, industriell Datateknik, nr. 9, sep. 1984, s. 40-41.
- G. Borgefors, N. Olander: Svaret är Datorseende - Hur var frågan? FOA Rapport C 30504-3.4, aug. 1988
- G. Borgefors: Från sensordata till datorseende, Militärteknisk tidskrift, nr. 4, dec. 1991, s. 73-78
- G. Borgefors: Tessellationer i matematik, arkitektur och konst, Proc. Matematikbiennalen 2004, (on CD), Malmö, Sweden, Jan. 2004, 4 p.
- G. Borgefors: Kedjekod - ett sätt att beskriva former i digitala bilder, I: Problemlösning är #1, Ed. D. Berglund, Liber förlag, Stockholm 2005, s. 38-42.
- G. Borgefors: Hemmafrun som lyckades, Nämnaren, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2007, s. 18-20.
- G. Borgefors: Räta linjer på dataskärmen - en illustration av rekursivitet, Nämnaren, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2008, s. 46-50.
- G. Borgefors: Tessellationer - konsten att dela upp planet i regelbundna mönster, I: Människor och matematik - läsebok för nyfikna, Eds. O. Helenius, K. Wallby, NMC, Göteborg 2008, s. 185-210.
- H. Sarve, C.B. Johansson, G. Borgefors, B. Friberg: Utvärdering av osseointegration med hjälp av Datoriserad Bildanalys, Tandläkartidningen, Vol. 104, No. 12,(2012) pp. 66-71.