93 people from across the Visual Intelligence (VI) consortium gathered at Quality Airport Hotel Gardermoen for Visual Intelligence Days 2024, 24th to 25th of September.
93 people from across the Visual Intelligence (VI) consortium gathered at Quality Airport Hotel Gardermoen for Visual Intelligence Days 2024, 24th to 25th of September.
By Petter Bjørklund, Communication Advisor at SFI Visual Intelligence
The Visual Intelligence Days is an annual gathering where VI researchers, user partners and invited guests convene to share knowledge and updates on the latest VI research and innovations.
The event consisted of two full days of tutorials, presentations and discussions on AI and deep learning, giving researchers across our research institutions the chance to collaborate and socialize with each other.
Before kickstarting the main event program, the Visual Intelligence Graduate School organized a pre-program event for early career researchers at Union371 Blindern, University of Oslo. 25 young researchers attended the pre-program event.
The event sought to connect young aspiring researchers across VI to strengthen research collaborations, share scientific experiences and get to know each other.
VIGS alumn Daniel Johansen Trosten held an invited talk at the pre-program, touching on the topic of representation learning, his experiences as a PhD student at VI and working at NORCE. Trosten also shared some useful research tips to the participants.
The pre-program event ended with a social program, consisting of a stacked tournament with darts, shuffleboard and a quiz.
This year's VIGS board consisted of Suaiba Amina Salahuddin (UiT), Magnus Størdal (UiT), Lars Uebbing (UiT), Solveig Thrun (UiT), Ingrid Utseth (NR), Vilde Schulerud Bøe (UiO) and Marius Aasan (UiT).
The main VI Days event featured a tutorial on diffusion models by professor Adín Ramírez Rivera (UiO), a user partner spotlight session on new VI work, results and infrastructure initiatives, an invited inspirational talk by Adrian Tofting and Odd Eirik Igland (VAKE), and a prospective outlook on trends within deep learning.
Further, the program included a collaborative work sessions centred around individual user partners. The session consisted of presentations and discussions to review the status of ongoing and planned research activities at the centre.
Several innovative solutions were presented by the VI user partner during the main VI Days event. Examples of presented methodologies included AI for mammography images, foundation models for oil spill detection, automatic classification of microfossils, uncertainty modelling in acoustic target detection, and detection of liver metastasis from CT images.
Professor Julia Schnabel of the Visual Intelligence Innovation Advisory Board gave attendees an overview of various applicational AI areas which her research group at Helmholtz Munich are involved in.
Such areas included advanced biomedical imaging, early disease detection and improved therapy, and disease interrelation and co-morbidity via Imaging.
Several participants got the opportunity to present their latest work through interactive poster presentations.
The organizers, participants, and invited speakers contributed a to successful and high-quality event, demonstrating the closely intertwined collaborations within the Visual Intelligence consortium.
Registration for the Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference 2026 is officially open. Early bird fees are available before December 1st 2025.
Det skal eksperter på kunstig intelligens, cybersikkerhet og juss fra UiT Norges arktiske universitet diskutere på Verdensteatret Kino den 17. september. Arrangementet er gratis og åpen for alle (Norwegian news article at uit.no)
The presentations from the Visual Intelligence Workshop on Foundation Models are now available on the Visual Intelligence YouTube channel.
Congratulations to Nikita Shvetsov for successfully defending his PhD thesis and achieving the PhD degree in Science at UiT The Arctic University of Norway on August 27th 2025.
Det sa digitaliseringsminister Karianne Tung (Ap) da hun besøkte UiT Norges arktiske universitet i Tromsø for å lære mer om utdanning og toppforskning på kunstig intelligens ved universitetet (Norwegian news article at uit.no)
A new study shows how deep learning can achieve human-level performance in estimating uncertainty when classifying foraminifera (News story at EurekAlert.org)
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.
Visual Intelligence brought together academia, industry, the institute sector, the Research Council of Norway, and Norwegian politics to discuss why and how Norwegian academia and industry should collaborate more closely to develop innovative artificial intelligence.
João Campagnolo is a PhD Candidate in the Neuroscience Department of the University of Copenhagen (KU). He visited SFI Visual Intelligence in Tromsø from April to May 2025.
Students from EUGLOH partner institutions can now apply for an exclusive mobility scholarship worth 2 900 EUR for the NLDL 2026 Winter School. Application deadline October 3rd 2025
Visual Intelligence will be well represented at MICCAI 2025—one of the leading AI conferences on medical imaging and computer assisted intervention—with three recently accepted research papers.
More than 50 attendees from the Norwegian AI research community gathered in Tromsø, Norway for two days of insightful presentations, interactive technical sessions, and scientific and social interactions.
Last week, we wished Aasland—accompanied by Political Advisor Munir Jaber and Senior Adviser Finn-Hugo Markussen—welcome to the Norwegian Computing Center (NR). One of the visit's goals was to showcase ongoing Visual Intelligence projects at NR.
Alba Ordoñez and Anders U. Waldeland presented ongoing work on seismic foundation models and an interactive seismic interpretation engine at EAGE Annual 2025 in Toulouse, France.
Østmo was invited to Abels tårn—one of the largest popular science radio shows in Norway—to answer listener-submitted questions related to artificial Intelligence (AI). The live show took place at Blårock Cafe in Tromsø, Norway on June 12th.
VI industry partner Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) received an Industrial PhD grant from the Research Council of Norway. The project will be closely connected to Visual Intelligence's "Earth observation" innovation area.
Visual Intelligence Researchers Amund Vedal and Arnt Børre Salberg recently presented ongoing Visual Intelligence research at a plankton-themed workshop organized by the Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway
We happily welcome Dennis Adamek, who recently started as a Doctoral Research Fellow at Visual Intelligence in Tromsø in April 2025.
Congratulations to Professor Lars Ailo for receiving the NORA Award for Diversity in AI at the NORA Annual Conference in Halden, Norway.
Teresa Dorszewski is a PhD Candidate at the Section for Cognitive Systems at the Technical University of Denmark. She visited Visual Intelligence in Tromsø from January to April 2025.