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Through long-term research in close collaboration between industry, public institutions and prominent research partners, we enable novel innovations, technology transfer, internationalization and researcher training.

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We research the next generation of deep learning methodology for visual data and produce solutions for our consortium partners across innovation areas in medicine and health, marine science, energy, and earth observation.

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June 19, 2025

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Two successful PhD defenses within two days

August 22, 2025

Congratulations to Iver Martinsen and Durgesh Kumar Singh, who successfully defended their PhD theses at UiT The Arctic University of Norway on August 20th and 21st respectively.

When:
August 26, 2025
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13:00
August 26, 2025
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16:00
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This workshop hosts leading researchers to examine how their theoretical foundations expose a paradox between statistical compression and semantic meaning, how emergent phenomena challenge conventional assumptions, and how evaluation practices continue to shape trustworthy foundation models.

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AI matches human experts in classifying microscopic organisms

August 15, 2025

New study shows how deep learning can achieve human-level performance in estimating uncertainty when classifying foraminifera.

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Visual Data Diagnosis and Debiasing with Concept Graphs

March 6, 2025

We propose ConBias, a bias diagnosis and debiasing pipeline for visual datasets.

Recent publications

Quantifying uncertainty in foraminifera classification: How deep learning methods compare to human experts

By authors:

Iver Martinsen, Steffen Aagaard Sørensen, Samuel Ortega, Fred Godtliebsen, Miguel Tejedor, Eirik Myrvoll-Nilsen

Published in:

Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences

on

July 16, 2025

Leveraging Foundation Model Adapters to Enable Robust and Semantic Underwater Exploration

By authors:

Changkyu Choi, Arangan Subramaniam, Nils Olav Handegard, Ali Ramezani-Kebrya and Robert Jenssen

Published in:

Proceedings of the Symposium of the Norwegian AI Society 2025, CEUR Workshop Proceedings ( ISSN 1613-0073)

on

June 17, 2025

Pixel-Level Predictions with Embedded Lookup Tables

By authors:

Marius Aasan, Adín Ramírez Rivera

Published in:

Proceedings of the Symposium of the Norwegian AI Society 2025, CEUR Workshop Proceedings ( ISSN 1613-0073)

on

June 17, 2025

Assessing the Efficacy of Multi-task Learning in Mammographic Density Classification: A Study on Class Imbalance and Model Performance

By authors:

Suaiba A. Salahuddin, Elisabeth Wetzer, Kristoffer Wickstrøm, Solveig Thrun, Michael Kampffmeyer and Robert Jenssen

Published in:

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 2025 ;Volum 15726.

on

June 16, 2025

ProxyDR: Deep Hyperspherical Metric Learning with Distance Ratio-Based Formulation

By authors:

Hyeongji Kim, Changkyu Choi, Michael Christian Kampffmeyer, Terje Berge, Pekka Parviainen, Ketil Malde

Published in:

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 2025

on

May 12, 2025

Addressing Label Shift in Distributed Learning via Entropy Regularization​

By authors:

Zhiyuan Wu, Changkyu Choi, Volkan Cevher, Ali Ramezani-Kebrya

Published in:

International Conference on Learning Representations 2025

on

April 29, 2025

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Visual Intelligence address the research challenges of deep learning and computer vision that limit our user partners in utilizing their complex visual data in their applications.

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Innovation areas

We contribute to reliable use of AI to detect heart disease, monitor the environment and potential natural disasters as well as detecting natural resources. Read more about our work in the different innovation areas.

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Our partners

Visual Intelligence is a consortium headed by UiT The Arctic University of Norway with research partners at the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Computing Center. Together with our consortium of high-profile user partners, we create cutting-edge solutions that will be implemented in the applications of the user partners.

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