Gunilla Borgefors (born 1952) is a Swedish computer scientist specializing in

image processing An image is a visual representation of something. It can be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or somehow otherwise feed into the visual system to convey information. An image can be an artifact, such as a photograph or other two-dimensiona ...

, including

distance transform A distance transform, also known as distance map or distance field, is a derived representation of a digital image. The choice of the term depends on the point of view on the object in question: whether the initial image is transformed into another ...

topological skeleton In shape analysis, skeleton (or topological skeleton) of a shape is a thin version of that shape that is equidistant to its boundaries. The skeleton usually emphasizes geometrical and topological properties of the shape, such as its connectivity, ...

ization, and edge detection. She is a

professor emerita ''Emeritus'' (; female: ''emerita'') is an adjective used to designate a retired chair, professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, rabbi, emperor, or other person who has been "permitted to retain as an honorary title ...

in the Department of Information Technology at

Uppsala University Uppsala University ( sv, Uppsala universitet) is a public university, public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the List of universities in Sweden, oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in opera ...

, associated with the Centre for Image Analysis.

Early life and education

Borgefors was born in 1952 in

Norrköping Norrköping (; ) is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, about 160 km southwest of the national capital Stockholm, 40 km east of county seat Linköp ...

. She earned a master's degree in

applied mathematics Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a combination of mathematical s ...

at Linköping University in 1975, and completed a Ph.D. in

numerical analysis Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic computation, symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical analysis (as distinguished from discrete mathematics). It is the study of ...

at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 1986. Her dissertation, ''On Hierarchical Edge Matching in Digital Images Using Distance Transformations'', was jointly supervised by Germund Dahlquist and Jan-Olof Eklundh. She also has a master's degree in journalism, earned in 2007 at Uppsala University.

Career

After working for the

Swedish Defence Research Agency The Swedish Defence Research Agency ( sv, Totalförsvarets forskningsinstitut, FOI; literal translation: ''Total Defence Research Institute'') is a government agency in Sweden for defence research. FOI has its headquarters in Kista (Stockholm). ...

in Linköping from 1982 to 1993, and becoming director of research for

computer vision Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate tasks that the hum ...

and head of the Division of Information Systems there, she moved in 1993 to a professorship at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, where she headed the Centre for Image Analysis. In 2005 she began a guest professorship at Uppsala University and in 2012 she moved to a full-time professorship at Uppsala. She served as editor-in-chief of the journal '' Pattern Recognition Letters'', beginning in 2011, and was president of the Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis from 1988 to 1992.

Recognition

Borgefors was named a Fellow of the

International Association for Pattern Recognition The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), founded in 1978 by Purdue University computer scientist King-Sun Fu, is an international association of non-profit, scientific, or professional organizations (being national, multi-natio ...

in 1998, "for contributions to digital geometry and for outstanding service to IAPR". She became an IEEE Fellow in 2008, "for contributions to discrete geometry and image analysis". She became a member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala in 2000, and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2011. She was the 2007 winner of the Edlund Prize of the

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( sv, Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) is one of the Swedish Royal Academies, royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739, it is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization that takes special ...

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(2013) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Borgefors, Gunilla Living people Swedish computer scientists Swedish women computer scientists Computer vision researchers Linköping University alumni KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni Fellow Members of the IEEE 1952 births