From the left: Centre Director Robert Jenssen, Petter Tømmeraas, UiT Vice Rector Bente Haug, Dean Bjørn-Morten Batalden
Petter Tømmeraas, Director of Data Center Services at Aker Nscale, visited SFI Visual Intelligence to learn more about our research projects and AI startups established by former UiT students.
Petter Tømmeraas, Director of Data Centre Services at Aker Nscale, visited SFI Visual Intelligence to learn more about our research projects and AI startups established by former UiT students.
By Petter Bjørklund, Communications Officer at SFI Visual Intelligence
The visit's background is the 10-year agreement between Aker Nscale and UiT to develop and strengthen AI competence and innovation in Narvik and North Norway.
Robert Jenssen presented SFI Visual Intelligence: a Norwegian Centre for Research-Based Innovation which researches and develops AI solutions in close collaboration with Norwegian industry and public sector partners.
Solveig Thrun and Christian Salomonsen, two VI PhD Research Fellows, showcased their projects and how these can contribute to more efficient and innovation-driven healthcare services in and outside Norway.
Thrun's project focuses on risk-based screening with AI for early detection of breast cancer in collaboration with industry partner Cancer Registry of Norway (Kreftregisteret).
Salomonsen's project uses deep learning to non-invasively estimate the arterial input function, a critical component of dynamic PET imaging which is required for drug development and cancer research. His project is done in collaboration with partner Universitetssykehuset Nord-Norge.
Associate Professor Kristoffer Wickstrøm presented our ongoing collaboration with industry partner KSAT – Kongsberg Satellite Services – which includes projects on sustainable oil spill monitoring and vessel detection.
Johannes H. Nilsen presented Abdera.ai: an AI startup formed by him and former Visual Intelligence master student Erland Grimstad. Abdera offers AI-driven solutions for moderating comment sections and discussions on social media and online fora.
UiT Innovation Coordinator Anna Dranovska told Tømmeraas about Medsensio: a health technology company which offers AI systems to automatically detect abnormal lung and heart sounds.
UiT Prorector for Research Jørgen Berge, Vice Rector Bente Haug, and Dean Bjørn-Morten Batalden was also present alongside Tømmeraas and Visual Intelligence's researchers for a fruitful discussion about the presented projects and startups.
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.
Visual Intelligence researchers contributed to the Pioneer Centre for AI workshop on Electronic Health Records research. The aim was to strengthen ties between the two centres on EHR-related research.