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.
Visual Intelligence hosted over 45 international AI researchers for the DL2026 workshop at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Visual Intelligence will be well represented at MICCAI 2026, one of the leading AI conferences on medical imaging and computer assisted intervention, with two accepted research papers.
Visual Intelligence co-organized and attended the "Foundations of Arctic AI and Generative Forecasting": an inaugural workshop in the P1 Arctic AI program.
PhD Candidates Solveig Thrun and Christian Salomonsen attended the Datacloud Global Congress' Talent in Tech programme, which invited emerging talent to a unique programme designed to inspire, educate, and connect young professionals with senior leaders from global tech giants.
We warmly welcome Georgios Leontidis as a new Professor at SFI Visual Intelligence's hub at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Centre Director Robert Jenssen was interviewed by Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK) about the Japan-Norway AI Innovation Forum in Tokyo, Japan.
En ny AI-løsning utviklet ved UiT kan gjøre det enklere å avdekke feilrapportering og ulovlig fiske. Nå skal Norges Råfisklag teste teknologien i praktisk bruk (News article on kystogfjord.no)
Principal Investigator Kristoffer Wickstrøm was interviewed by Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK) about the Artificial Intelligence Day at UiT- The Arctic University of Norway.
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En ny, åpent tilgjengelig KI-modell kan endre hvordan geologer tolker seismikk. Den norske grunnmodellen lover raskere analyser, lavere terskel for innovasjon og nye måter å forstå undergrunnen på.
Centre Director Robert Jenssen was interviewed by Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK) about AI in fisheries and this year's UArctic (University of the Arctic) Congress on the Faroe Islands.
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Professor and AI expert Robert Jenssen is attending the Japan-Norway AI Innovation Forum and Japan-Norway Research Symposium, two high-level meetings with Norwegian and Japanese government leaders, business actors and researchers.
Visual Intelligence researchers Solveig Thrun and Kristoffer Wickstrøm took their research out of the lab and to Tromsø city centre as part of Pint of Science 2026.
Subsurface Digital Manager and former Visual Intelligence board member Cathrine Tegnander will serve as the elected leader of Visual Intelligence's board.
The Call for Papers and Abstracts for the Northern Lights Deep Learning (NLDL) Conference 2027 is officially announced – with submission deadlines on August 7th and Mid-September 2026 respectively.
The field of Visual Intelligence is continuously transforming. Chief Research Scientist Arnt-Børre Salberg dives deeper into the current trends in the field of visual intelligence as of early 2026.
Generativ kunstig intelligens er imponerende, men ikke alltid så nyttig til å løse industrielle problemer (Norwegian op-ed in digi.no).
Congratulations to Marit Dagny Kristine Jenssen, who successfully defended her PhD thesis at UiT The Arctic University of Norway on April 10th
The NCS model, a seismic foundation model trained on data from the Norwegian data repository for subsurface data, is now available as an open-source model, allowing anyone to download, utilize, and further develop the model.
The Visual Intelligence Annual Report 2025, highlighting the centre's progress, activities, achieved innovations, staff, funding, and publications for 2025, is now available to read on our websites.
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Congratulations to Centre Director Robert Jenssen, who received UiT's Research and Development Award at the university's annual celebration.