The company's interest in Visual Intelligence is to utilize new developments in artificial intelligence (AI) to improve and automate interpretations of data, while providing the centre with data, problem formulations, and different forms of guidance.
The Norwegian oil exploration and development company Aker BP joined the Visual Intelligence (VI) consortium in Spring 2024.
Aker BP is engaged in exploration, field development and production of oil and gas on the Norwegian continental shelf. The company produces energy and provides raw materials to a wide range of products used in our daily lives.
Aker BP aims to change the oil and gas industry through different measures, such as by reducing emissions and creating new industries. The company is familiar with methodologies which VI has developed within the energy sector.
Senior Advanced Data Scientist Odd Kolbjørnsen is a principal investigator at Aker BP and deputy member of the VI board. He is excited for the future collaboration between the company and the other consortium partners.
- Visual Intelligence is a really exciting research centre with several competent partners. The research field continues to grow in a rapid pace and it is great to be a part of a collaborative environment which helps us in staying updated, says Kolbjørnsen.
The company's interest in VI is to utilize new developments in artificial intelligence (AI) to improve and automate interpretations of data, while providing the centre with data, problem formulations, and different forms of guidance.
- Aker BP has a diverse set of data in 2D, 3D and 4D which can offer new and exciting challenges to our analyses. Our researchers also seek to supervise PhD students as a way of establishing a collaborative research environment.
As there is a limited amount of training data within the field, Aker BP is also interested in developing techniques which reduce this need, as well as methodologies which utilize context and dependencies to improve results.
- We believe such needs correspond well with research challenges addressed by Visual Intelligence, Kolbjørnsen adds.
Centre director Robert Jenssen welcomes Aker BP to the VI consortium and believes that the research centre is significantly strengthened by the addition of the company.
- Aker BP is a heavy industry partner, and we are glad that they have reached out to Visual Intelligence to find the competence they seek. With the company on board, our role as a leading AI centre will be further consolidated.
- I would like to thank my co-director Anne Solberg for her grand efforts in the process, and for her sustained communication with Aker BP on our behalf, Jenssen adds.
After four years of operation, an international AI expert panel was appointed to assess Visual Intelligence's progress and results. The evaluation was characterized by its excellent remarks on the centre's scientific quality and innovation output.
Senior Researcher Fredrik Dahl recently gave a talk about Norsk Regnesentral's work on developing AI algorithms for automatic analysis of image quality and cancer detection at Norsk Radiografforbund's mammography symposium in Oslo.
Han høster anerkjennelse for sitt forskningsarbeid innen utvikling av mer effektive KI-modeller (Norwegian news article in Nordlys).
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Congratulations to associate professor Ali Ramezani-Kebrya for receiving a prestigious FRIPRO grant from the Research Council of Norway!
KI har en tendens til å behandle menn og kvinner ulikt. Ekspert mener teknologien reproduserer gamle fordommer (Norwegian news story in NRK.no)
To UiT-forskere ser store etiske og juridiske problemer ved bruk av kunstig intelligens i kommunal saksbehandling (Norwegian news story in Nordlys.no).
Michael Kampffmeyer is one of UiT's youngest professors and has already distinguished himself through his contributions to AI research. He has now won UiT's award for young researchers at the university's annual celebration.
The fifth Visual Intelligence annual report, showcasing the centre's activities, results, staff, funding and publications for 2024, is now available on our web pages.
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I juni møtes det norske KI-miljøet i Tromsø for å presentere ny forskning og diskutere nye retninger innen feltet. KI-forskere inviteres til å delta og vise fram forskningen sin under konferansen.
Visual Intelligence and the Digital Innovation Lab invited industry professionals to present ideas for master's projects to computer science and machine learning students at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Kunstig intelligens (KI) endrer måten vi løser komplekse problemer på. Ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet leder professor Robert Jenssen Visual Intelligence, et senter for forskningsdrevet innovasjon som utvikler neste generasjons KI-metoder.
Visual Intelligence researchers had the great pleasure of talking to high school students about the AI study programme at UiT The Arctic University of Norway during the UiT Open Day.
Director Robert Jenssen represented Visual Intelligence at the CuttingEdgeAI seminar "KI anno 2023: I offentlighetens interesse?" at the University of Bergen on March 7th.
Det hender at kunstig intelligens behandler menn og kvinner ulikt. Hvordan skjer dette? KI-forsker Elisabeth Wetzer forklarer hva som ligger bak skjevhetene i teknologien (Popular science story in forskning.no and sciencenorway.no)
Congratulations to Visual Intelligence board member Viktoria Gulliksen Stray for being featured in Abelia and ODA-Nettverk's list of Top 50 Influential Tech Women in Norway 2025!
Norwegian Minister of Research and Higher Education, Sigrun Aasland (Ap) got to hear about Visual Intelligence's work toward developing the next generation of deep learning methodology at a visit to UiT in Tromsø
Hva er lov og hva er ikke lov? Det er blant spørsmålene studentene stiller seg. (NRK.no story featuring director Robert Jenssen)
We had the pleasure of talking to students about the exciting career opportunities at Visual Intelligence and UiT The Arctic University of Norway during TEKdagen 2025
Last week, we welcomed students from Breivang upper secondary school to a full-day practical session on AI and programming at UiT The Arctic University of Norway
We happily welcome Solveig Thrun, who recently started as a doctoral research fellow at Visual Intelligence in Tromsø in January 2025.