Gunilla Borgefors (born 1952) is a Swedish computer scientist specializing in image processing, including distance transforms, topological skeletonization, and edge detection.
[2] She earned a master's degree in applied mathematics at Linköping University in 1975, and completed a Ph.D. in numerical analysis at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 1986.
[2][3] Her dissertation, On Hierarchical Edge Matching in Digital Images Using Distance Transformations, was jointly supervised by Germund Dahlquist and Jan-Olof Eklundh.
[3] 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.
[2][3] Borgefors was named a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition in 1998, "for contributions to digital geometry and for outstanding service to IAPR".