GB CV
Name: Gunilla Borgefors
Born: 1952 in Norrköping, Sweden, but my hometowns are
Linköping (1955-93) and
Uppsala (1993--)
Honorary hometowns are
London,
Napoli,
and
Oslo.
Nationality: Swedish (and "Öschötte")
Languages: Svenska, English, un peu de Français
- PUBLICATIONS here
- EDUCATION
- Master of Engineering, Applied mathematics, April 1975
Linköping University, Sweden
- Licentiate of Technology, Applied mathematics, April 1983
Linköping University, Sweden
- Ph.D., Numerical analysis, April 1986
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- Certificate of Proficiency in English, Grade A (= Very Good), June 1987
University of Cambridge, U.K.
- "Docent" in Image Processing, June 1992
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden
- Main course at the Royal Defence College, Spring 1993
Royal Defence College, Stockholm, Sweden
- Master of Journalism, June 2007
Uppsala University, Sweden
- HONOURS
- Fellow, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 1998--
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), 2008-2017
- Member No. 19, Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (Kungliga Vetenskaps-Societeten) (KVS), 2000--.
- Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), 2011--
- Member, Steering Committee for Onsala Space Observatory (OSO), 2011--
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- European Association for Signal Processing ( EURASIP's ) 1990 Award for the
Best Paper of the Year .
- Swedish Lace Association, 2nd Prize in the design contest to create a bobbin lace souvenir
for the St. Birgitta 700 year anniversary in Vadstena 2003.
- The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,
KVA,
The Edlund Prize of 2007
- EMPLOYMENT
- 1975-1981: Dept. of Mathematics, Linköping University (LiU), Sweden,
Assistant researcher and other titles
- 1982-1993: National Defence Research Establishment (FOA), Linköping, Sweden
Project leader for computer vision 1985-93
Part of the strategic planning group for the Dept. of Information Technology 1987-91
Director of Research (= full professor) 1989--
Head of the Division of Information Systems (about 35 persons) 1990-93
- 1993-2018: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden
Prof. Image Analysis and Remote Sensing 199303-201802
Head of Centre for Image Analysis 199608-200507
Member, Appointments Board, Faculty of Forestry 199907-201108
Member, Docent Board, Faculty of Forestry 200207-200312
Member, Prize and Reward Committee, Faculty of Forestry, 2006-2011
- 2005-2010, 2012-2017, 2018--: Uppsala University (UU), Sweden
Head of Centre for Image Analysis 199608-200507
Guest Prof. Image Analysis 200511-201010; 10%
Guest Prof. Computerized Image Processing 201202-201701, 100%
Prof. Emerita 201803--
Chair Celsius-Linné Committee, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology 201307-201703, ( member 200705-201703)
Member, Language Committee, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology 200610-201003
Member, Docent Committee, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology 201408-201709
- PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS
- International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
* Secretary 1990-1994
* 1st Vice President 1994-96
* Governing Board member 1988-1994
* Chair of the Publications and Publicity Committee 1988-1990
* Chair of the Membership Committee 1990-2000
* Chair of the Constitution and Bylaws Committee 2000-2004
* Chair of the Fellow Committee 2016-2018 (member 2014-2016)
* Member of the Advisory Committee 2006-2010
* Member of the Nominating Committee 2010-2012
* Member of the K.S. Fu Prize Committee 2016-2022
* Nordic correspondent for the IAPR Newsletter 1998-2003
- IEEE, Senior Member 1998-2007, Fellow 2008-2017
* Fellow evaluation Committee 2008, 2009
- Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis
(SSAB/SSBA)
* President 1988-1992
* Board member 1986-2000
* Nomination Committee 2000-2008
- Group of Nordic IAPR chairmen, Founder and Coordinator 1989-1993
- Swedish Parliamentarians and Scientists (RIFO), Member 1987--
- Linköping Folk Music Café Society, Vice President 1986-89
- SUPERVISED STUDENTS (details here)
- Doctors
* Ingela Nyström, Ph.D. UU 19970523 (assistant supervisor)
* Fredrik Walter, Dr.For. SLU 19991008
* Tomas Brandtberg, Dr.For. SLU 19991119
* Anna Rydberg, Ph.D. SLU 20011109
* Stina Svensson, Ph.D. SLU 20011123
* Mattias Moëll Ph.D. SLU 2001214
* Mattias Aronsson, Ph.D. SLU 20021212
* Xavier Tizon Ph.D. SLU 20041015
* Mats Erikson, Ph.D. SLU 20041126
* Ida-Maria Sintorn Ph.D. SLU 20050401
* Nataša Sladoje Ph.D. SLU 20051125
* Ola Weistrand Ph.D. UU 20051209 (assistant supervisor)
* Erik Melin Ph.D. UU 20080229
* Robin Strand Ph.D. UU 20081107
* Maria Axelsson Ph.D. SLU 20090327
* Hanna Uscka-Wehlou Ph.D. UU 20090925 (assistant supervisor)
* Kristin Norell Ph.D. SLU 20100604
* Anders Larsolle, D.Agr. SLU 20101203 (assistant supervisor)
* Hamid Sarve Ph.D. SLU 20110923
* Gustaf Kylberg Ph.D. UU 20140321 (assistant supervisor)
* Vladimir Ćurić Ph.D. UU 20140523
* Erik L. G. Wernersson Ph.D. SLU 20141205
* Lennart Svensson Ph.D. SLU 20141124 (assistant supervisor)
* Bettina Selig Ph.D. SLU 20150306 (assistant supervisor)
* Azadeh Fakhrzadeh Ph.D. UU 20150612 (assistant supervisor)
* Adama Arouna Koné PhD. University of Sciences, Techniques and Technology, Bamako, Mali 20160114 (assistant supervisor)
- Licentiates
* Anders Forsmoo Lic. SLU 19990506
* Emma Lindqvist Lic. SLU 19990903
* Jakob Nisell Lic. SLU 20001124
* Filip Malmberg Lic. SLU 20080305
- JOURNALS
- Pattern Recognition Letters
published by Elsevier, The Netherlands,
Editor-in-Chief 2011--,
Area editor 2004-2010; Associate editor 1998-2004
- Editorial Board:
- Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: Advances in Mathematical Theory and Applications
published by Interperiodica Publishing in cooperation with the
"Cybernetics" Scientific Council, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1993--
- Image Processing and Communications
published by De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany 1994--
- Rivista di informatica
published by the Italian Association for Informatics and Automatic Computation, Milano, Italy, 1994-2001
- Book series Computational Imaging and Vision
published by Springer, 2003--
- CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
(Links to current conferences)
- Steering committee member
* Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI) conferences, 2000--
- Steering committee member
* International Symposium for Mathematical Morphology (ISMM) conferences, 2011--
- General chair:
* 9th Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2000), Uppsala, Sweden, Dec. 2000
* 11th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology (ISMM 2013), Uppsala, Sweden, May 2013
- Program committee chair:
* 9th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (9SCIA), Uppsala, Sweden, June 1995
* Swedish Society for Automatic Image Analysis 1998 Symposium (SSAB98), Uppsala, Sweden, March 1998
* 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (14ICPR), track Algorithms & Techniques, Brisbane, Australia, Aug. 1998
- Program committee track co-chair:
* 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, (ICPR 2010), Track II: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 2010
* International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, (ICIAP 2015), Genoa, Italy, Sept. 2015
- Organising committee member:
* First French-Nordic Summer School in Mathematics (EEFN 2001), Erken (Uppsala), Sweden June 2001
* The Kiselmanfest: An International Symposium in Complex Analysis and Digital Geometry, Uppsala, Sweden May 2006
- Invited speakers chair:
* 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2014), Stockholm, Sweden
- International liaison chair:
* 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2018), Beijing, China
- Publication chair:
* Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA),
Crans-Montana, Switzerland, March 1997
* 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, (ICPR 2008), Tampa, Florida, USA December 2008
- Advisory Committee:
* 9th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB 2016), Halmstad, Sweden, June 2016
* 9th International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR 2017), Bangalore, India, Dec. 2017
- Program committee member:
* The 1987 Workshop on Visual Languages, Linkäping, Sweden, 1987
* 10th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (10ICPR), Atlantic City PA, USA, 1990
* Int. Workshop on Visual Form, Capri, Italy, 1991
* 11th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (11ICPR), The Hague, The Netherlands, 1992
* 8th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (8SCIA), Tromsø, Norway, 1993
* 2nd IAPR Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'93), Tsukuba, Japan, 1993
* IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'94), Seattle WA, USA, 1994
* International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'96), Lausanne, Switzerland, 1996
* 1st International Workshop on Graph Based Representations (GbR'97), Lyon, France, 1997
* 3rd International Conference on Visual Form, Capri, Italy, 1997
* 10th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (10SCIA), Lappeenranta, Finland 1997
* 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing, Minsk, Belarus (PRIP'97), 1997
* 7th Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery Conference (DGCI'97), Montpellier, France, 1997
* EUSIPCO 98, Rhodes, Greece, Sept. 1998
* 8th Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI'99), Noisy-le-Grand, France, March 1999
* 5th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing
(PRIP'99), Minsk, Belarus, May 1999
* 11th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (11SCIA), Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, June 1999
* Statistical Methods for Image Processing, Uppsala, Sweden, August 1999
* First International Workshop on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (IWISPA2000), Pula, Croatia, June 2000
* 8th International Workshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR2000), Alicante, Spain, Aug.-Sep. 2000
* 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing (PRIP'01)
Minsk, Belarus, May 2001
* 4th International Workshop on Visual Form (IWVF4),
Capri, Italy, May 2001
* 3rd International Conference on Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA), Halmstad, Sweden, June 2001
* 12th Scandianvian Conference on Image Processing (SCIA 2001), Bergen, Norway, June 2001
* 2nd IEEE Region 8-EURASIP Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA'01), Pula, Croatia, June 2001
* 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2002), Track 2: Pattern Recognition, Neural Networks, and Document Analysis, Quebec, Canada, Aug. 2002
* 13th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2003), Göteborg, Sweden, June - July 2003
* 3rd Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA 2003), Rome, Italy, Sep. 2003
* Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP'2003), Groningen, Netherlands, August 2003
* 11th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2003), Naples, Italy, Nov. 2003
* 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2004), Track 2: Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks, Cambridge, U.K., Aug. 2004
* 10th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA), Auckland, New Zealand, Dec. 2004
* 12th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2005), Poitier, France, April 2005
* International Symposion on Mathematical Morphology: 40 years on (ISMM 2005), Paris, France, April 2005
* IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA 2005), Tsukuba Science City, Japan, May 2005
* 8th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing (PRIP'05), Minsk, Belarus, May 2005
* 1st International Symposium on Brain, Vision & Artificial Intelligence (BVIA2005), Napoli, Italy, Oct. 2005
* The Kiselmanfest: An International Symposium in Complex Analysis and Digital Geometry, Uppsala, Sweden, May 2006.
* 11th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis(IWCIA 2006), Berlin, Germany, June 2006
* 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), Track 2: Pattern Recognition and basic technologies, Hong Kong, China, Aug. 2006
*13th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2006), Szeged, Hungary, Oct. 2006
* 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing (PRIP'07)
Minsk, Belarus, May 2007
* 8th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology (ISMM'2007), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 2007
* 14th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI'2008),Lyon, France, April 2008
* 10th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing (PRIP'09), Minsk, Belarus, May 2009
* 9th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology Groningen (ISMM'09), The Netherlands, Aug. 2009
* 13th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2009), Münster, Germany, Sep. 2009
* 15th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery, Montreal, Canada, Sep.-Oct. 2009
* Workshop on Application of on Digital Geometry and Mathematical Morphology
(WADGMM2010),Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 2010
* International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics (ICCVG2010), Warsaw, Poland, Sep. 2010
* 15th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2010),
Sao Paulo, Brazil, Nov. 2010
* 16th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2011), Nancy, France, April 2011
* 11th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing (PRIP 2011), Minsk, Belarus, May 2011
* 5th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2011),Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain, June 2011
* 10th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology (ISMM 2011), Intra, Lago Maggiore, Italy, July 2011
* 14th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2011), Sevilla, Spain, Aug. 2011
* 16th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP 2011), Ravenna, Italy, Sep. 2011
* International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics (ICCVG 2012),Warsaw, Poland, Sep. 2012
* 7th International Conference on Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence (ICNNAI 2012) Minsk, Belarus, Oct. 2012
* 17th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2013), Sevilla, Spain, March 2013
* 15th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2013), York, England, Aug. 2013
* 17th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP 2013), Naples, Italy, Sep. 2013
* 18th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2013), Havanna, Cuba, Nov. 2013
* 18th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2014), Sienna, Italy, Sep. 2014
* International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics (ICCVG 2014), Warsaw, Poland Sep. 2014
* International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology (ISMM 2015), Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2015
* 20th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2015), Montevideo, Uruguay, Nov. 2015
* 19th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2016), Nantes, France, April 2016
* 21st International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics (ICCVG 2016)
Warsaw, Poland, Sep. 2016
* 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Processing (PRIP 2016), Minsk, Belarus, Oct. 2016
* 21st Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition and Image Processing (CIARP 2016), Lima, Peru, Nov. 2016
* Workshop on Discrete Geometry and Mathematical Morphology for Computer
Vision Pattern Recognition and Image Processing (DGMM4CV 2016)
(in conjunction with ACCV ’16),
Taipei, Taiwan, Nov. 2016
* 13th International Symposium of Mathemathical Morphology (ISMM 2017), Fontainebleau, France, May 2017
* 21th Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA 2017), Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2017
* 20th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2017), Vienna, Austria, Sep. 2017
* 22nd Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2017), Valparaíso, Chile, Nov. 2017
* 22th Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA 2018) Southampton, England July 2018
* 3rd International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory (AIRIM'18) Poznań, Poland, Sep. 2018
* 22st International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics (ICCVG 2018)
Warsaw, Poland, Sep. 2018
* 14th International Conference on
Signal Image Technology & Internet based Systems (SITIS 2018), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, Nov. 2018
- PhD COMMITTEES
- Opponent
* Anders Kaestner, Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Chalmers and
Halmstad University, Oct. 2002
* Alexander Kolesnikov, Computer Science, University of Joensuu, Finland, Oct. 2003
* Ulf Ekblad, Experimental Particle Physics, Royal Instute of Technology, Stockholm , June 2004
* Rune Holmstad, Chemical Process Technology, Norweigian University of Science and Technology,
Trondheim, Norway, Sept. 2004
* Leena Ikonen, Information Technology, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, June 2006
* Klas Folkesson, Radio and Space Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, May 2008
* Christina Olsén, Dept. of Computing Science, Umeå University, June 2008
- Member
About 50 times, in the following Countries and Departments:
* Sweden; Australia, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, India, The Netherlands, Norway
* Image Analysis; Mathematics, Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing, Information Technology,
Signals and Systems, Systems and Control, Engineering Sciences,
Electrical Engineering,
Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering,
Forest Resource Management and Geomatics,
Wood Science and Engineering,
Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Limnology, Agroecology,
Astronomy and Space Physics,
Clinical Radiology, Neuroscience, Genetics and Pathology
- SPECIAL INVITED TALKS (International only)
- Copenhagen Workshop on Computer Vision, Copenhagen, Denmark, Jan. 1984
Topic: Distance Transformations in 3D imagery
- French-Swedish Seminar on Remote Sensing Kiruna, Sweden, August 1989
Topic: Object Recognition in Digital Imagery
- 851st Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Hoboken NJ, U.S.A.,
Oct. 1989
Topic: Global Distances from Local Operations
- Summer school of Theoretical Physics: Session LVIII NATO Advanced Study
Institute,
Les Houches, France, Aug.-Sept. 1992
Topic: Discrete Representations
- 2nd International Conference on Visual Form, Capri, Italy, June 1994
Topic: Applications of Distance Transforms
- ISPRS Conference: Automatic Extraction of GIS Objects from Digital Imagery,
Münich, Germany, Sep. 1999
Topic: Forest Parameter Extraction from Airborne Sensors
- Ariane project, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France Oct. 2008
Topic: Discrete Distance-based Skeletons in 2D and 3D
- PRIP Conference, Minsk, Belarus May. 2009
Topic: Maximal Balls in Three Dimensional Volume Grids
- VISITING SCIENTIST
- IBM Scientific Center, Palo Alto, CA, U.S.A.
June-Sept. 1975
- Istituto di Cibernetica, National Research Council, Arco Felice/Pozzuoli (Napoli), Italy
Many 1-2 week periods from 1987 onwards.
- Dept. of Computer Science & Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington,
Seattle WA, USA, Jan.-May 1989
- TRIVIA
- citations: 7600 (Google Scholar 2018-03)
- h-index 28; i10 index 63
- Rosenfeld number 2
- Erdös number 4
- Einstein number 5