The Visual Intelligence Annual Report 2025
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.
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.
By Petter Bjørklund, Communications Officer at SFI Visual Intelligence
This year, our centre transitioned into a new and exciting phase, delivering novel deep learning solutions that are already implemented by and creating value for our industry and public sector partners.
The report highlights the centre's progress, activities and achieved innovations for 2025. It describes new deep learning methods which address pressing societal needs in the fields of medicine and health, marine science, the energy sector, and earth observation.
The methods are built on our deep learning research, which aims to solve fundamental research challenges related limited training data, capturing context and dependencies, estimating confidence and uncertainty, and explainability.
The report also highlights other centre activities, such as PhD defenses, the Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference 2025, the Aker Nscale – UiT partnership agreement, and dissemination in nationwide news media like Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK), forskning.no, VG, and Dagens Næringsliv
We wish to thank all our researchers, user partners, and collaborators for an amazing 2025! Visual Intelligence's journey in developing cutting-edge deep learning solutions continues in 2026!
Representatives from the Research Council of Norway came to Visual Intelligence's hub in Tromsø for a site visit meeting.
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Harald Lykke Joakimsen, a PhD Candidate at Visual Intelligence's hub in Tromsø, will compete in Forsker Grand Prix: Norway's national popular science competition.
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Congratulations to Centre Director Robert Jenssen, who was appointed as a new fellow of the International Associaton for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).
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Why should we think twice before using AI as a therapist, romantic partner, or to help with homework? AI expert Elisabeth Wetzer explains.
Athinoulla Konstantinou is a PhD student at the University of Aberdeen. She visited Visual Intelligence's hub in Tromsø to work with equivariant modelling.
Visual Intelligence gathered experts from Norwegian politics, research council, industry, the public sector, and academia to discuss the value of Norwegian AI competence and Norwegian-developed models.
Visual Intelligence researchers are attending two AI-oriented events at Arendalsuka 2026: Norway's largest annual political festival.
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.