• Chair of the board of the UPI, the Unit for Development of Teaching and Interactive Learning of UU, 200407–
Comment: (9 meetings and additionally 4 internal planning meetings.)
• Project leader for a National IT User Centre, NITA, 200008–
Comment: Established a Swedish national IT user centre funded by Vinnova and UU and in cooperation with industry. During 2006 several informal meetings concerning future financing and cooperation plans took place. (6 meetings.)
• Member of the reference group of the Unit for Development of Pedagogy and Interactive Learning of Upp-sala University formed 200301.
Comment: (2 meetings)
• Member of the Board of UpGIS, the net for Geographical Information Systems at UU, 199904–
Comment: Representing the virtual IT faculty, responsible for managing the economy of the network. (8 meetings.)
• Member of the UU student cooperation group, 200001–
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 board of the Uppsala High Performance Computing Centre, UPPMAX, 200303–
Comment: (7 meetings.)
• Member of the Uppsala Chamber of Commerce IT board, representing UU. 200006–
Comment: Working with various activities to promote cooperation researchers - companies. (6 meetings.)
• Member of the IT-cluster group, 200108–
Comment: A group under the chairmanship of Uppsala municipality with the task of promoting the IT business activity in Uppsala by making the present competence and activity known to the local, national and international community. All kinds of organisations are represented on the committee. Bengtsson represents UU. (6 meetings.)
• SUUS IT group, 050301
Comment: Representing UU on the group for cooperation between universities in the Stockholm region in the IT field. (3 meetings)
• Board of EHealth Centre at UU, 050817–
Comment: Member of the board of this Centre representing the faculty of Science and Technology. (6 meetings)
• IT in university learning, 051007–060215
Comment: Chair of this committee charged with the task of proposing how the work to develop and support the use of IT in UU undergraduate education should be coordinated between the faculty and the central levels. (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 re-search. The board has three members. (2 meetings.)
• Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Section VII: Basic and Interdisciplinary Engineering Sciences. 0610–
• On the committee to elect a new pro-vice-chancellor for Uppsala University. Comment: (2 meetings.)
• On the steering committee for the project “rational web publishing” at UU. Comment’: (1 meeting.)
• PhD Dissertation Committee for Heide Stollberg, Biomedical & X-ray Physics, KTH, Stockholm, 061020 Comment: Title: Compact soft X-ray microscopy: Image processing and instrumentation.
Gunilla Borgefors International:
• Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 1998–
• Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), 1998–
• Member of the Advisory Committee of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 2006–
• Area editor of Pattern Recognition Letters, 2004–
Comment: On the editorial Board since 1998. Published by Elsevier.
• Editorial Board member of Image Processing and Communications, 1994–
Comment: Published by the Institute of Telecommunications, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
• Editorial Board member of 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–
• Programme Committee for International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis 2006 (IWCIA’06), Berlin, Germany, June 2006
• Programme Committee for the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Hong Kong, China, August 2006
• Steering Committee for the 13th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI), Szeged, Hungary, October 2006
• Opponent of Leena Ikonen for the degree of Doctor of Science, Dept. of Information Technology, Lappeen-ranta University of Technology, LappeenLappeen-ranta , Finland, 20060615
Comment: Title: Distance Transforms on Gray-Level Surfaces National:
• Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (Kungliga Vetenskaps-societeten), Member No. 19, 200009–
Comment: Elected member of this, the oldest scientific society in Sweden (founded 1710).
• Member of Swedish Parliamentarians and Scientists, 1987–
Comment: Members are elected. Only one scientist per field admitted.
• Permanent member of Appointments board, Faculty of Forest Science, SLU, 199907–
Comment: (4 meetings.)
• Member of the Board of UpGIS, the net for Geographical Information Systems at UU, 199904–
Comment: Representing TN-Faculty at UU. (1 meeting.)
• Nomination Committee, Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis (SSBA)
• Organizing committee for The Kiselmanfest: An International Symposium in Complex Analysis and Digital Geometry, 20060101–20060518
Comment: The symposium was organized in honor of Professor Christer O. Kiselman on the occasion of his retirement.
• The Prize and Reward committee of the Faculty of Forestry, SLU, 20060101 Comment: (1 meeting.)
• Electorial board for Swedish Research Council, 200606–200611 Comment: (Three one-day meetings.)
• Language committee of the Factulty of Science and Technology, Uppsala University, 20061001–20081231 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. (3 meetings.)
• Dissertation committee of Kidane Asrat, Dept. of Mathematics, UU, 20060120
Comment: Title: Analysis of Algorithms for Combinatorial Auctions and Related Problems Tommy Lindell
International:
• Affiliate Associate Professor and Officer for Valle Scandinavian Exchange Program, University of Wash-ington, Seattle, WA, USA, 1985–
Ingela Nystr¨om International:
• Governing Board Member, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 2002–
• Member of Nominating Committee for IAPR Executive Committee, 2004–2006
• Member of the committee for “Best Nordic Thesis in Pattern Recognition”, 2003–
Comment: Award appointed at SCIA.
• Programme Committee for the 13th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2006), Szeged, Hungary, 20060101–20061031
Comment: Proceedings LNCS 4245
• Programme Committee for International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis 2006 (IWCIA 2006), Berlin, Germany, 20060101–20060621
Comment: Proceedings LNCS 4040
• Programme Committee Track III for the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), Hong Kong, China, 20060101–20060831
• Preliminary examiner of PhD thesis for Leena Ikonen, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, 20060111–20060406
Comment: Title: Distance Transforms on Gray-level Surfaces
• Opponent for Christoph Spuhler, Dept. of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Z¨urich, Switzerland, 20060621
Comment: Title: Interactive Centerline Finding in Complex Tubular Structures National:
• Board member of Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis (SSBA), 2000–
Comment: President 2002–2006
• Member of the Recruitment Board, Dept. of Information Technology, UU, 2005–
• Licentiate Opponent for Johanna Pettersson, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Link¨oping University, 20060420
Comment: Title: Automatic Generation of Patient Specific Models for Hip Surgery Simulation
• Licentiate Opponent for Joel Kullberg, Dept. of Oncology, Radiology and Clinical Immunology, UU, 20060602
Comment: Title: Imaging based whole-body lipid analysis
• Licentiate Opponent for Magnus Eriksson, Dept. of Neuronic Engineering, KTH, 20060609 Comment: Title: Haptic and Visual Simulation of a Material Cutting Process
Stefan Seipel National:
• Vice-chair of the SIGRAD organisation (Svenska f¨oreningen f¨or grafisk databehandling) 2004–
Comment: Programme Committee member for SIGRAD’06 - Computer Games (SIGRAD’06)
• External reviewer of applicants for Research Associate positions in Visualization at University of Link¨oping, 0606