The delegation lasted from April 23rd to 27th and aimed to develop and strengthen existing and future collaborations between UiT and Indian universities and research institutions.
We were happy to take part in UiT The Arctic University of Norway's delegation to India. The delegation lasted from April 23rd to 27th and aimed to develop and strengthen existing and future collaborations between UiT and Indian universities and research institutions.
Associate professor Elisabeth Wetzer participated on Visual Intelligence's behalf and got to visit the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi (IIT Delhi) and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). The delegation and IIT Delhi faculty discussed research overlaps between the institutions, resulting in the identification of multiple common and intersecting research interests.
Wetzer got an extensive tour at multiple labs by Dr. Atanendu Sekhar Mandal, which involved topics such as telecommunication, robotics, image processing, and AI.
Similarly to the IIT Delhi meeting, Wetzer and other UiT delegates visited AIIMS to discuss common research grounds and shared ideas on what UiT projects could benefit AIIMS and vice versa. AIIMS then gave the UiT delegation a tour to the Centre for Dental Education to learn more about a large digital pathology database and oral cancer detection system AIIMS are working on.
The delegation was then invited to the Royal Norwegian Embassy in India to present research projects through presentations and scientific panel discussions between UiT researchers. Wetzer gave participants an overview of research areas within UiT Machine Learning (ML) group, which was followed by a signing session of six Memorandums of Understanding between UiT and Indian universities later that evening.
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On the 25th, the delegation split up to visit different collaborators across India. Wetzer headed to Kolkata and was welcomed by professors Ashis Kumar Dhara (NIT Durgapur) and Sudipta Mukhopadhyay (IIT Kharagpur). She met several students at Mukhopadhyay's lab at the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering at NIT Durgapur and gave a presentation about UiT, life in Tromsø, the ML group, VI and herself.
Wetzer visited the Department of Biotechnology to give a presentation at the Bioprocess and Bioproduct Development Laboratory on April 26th. The laboratory is involved in a large ongoing collaboration with UiT on Strategic Planning for Water Resources, Development and Implementation of Novel Biotechnical Treatment Solutions and Good Practices (SPRING). Wetzer, Mukhopadhyay, Sen and professor Ashis Kumar Dhara met with professor Debasish Chakravarty, the associate dean for alumni affairs and international relations, to discuss the possibility of an MoU and a student exchange agreement with UiT which is currently in the making.
The collaboration between UiT and Indian partners now involve fields such as energi technology, mathematics, machine learning, sustainable development and environment, aquaculture, and research on the Arctic and climate change. Visual Intelligence look forward to future collaborations with the Indian academic community.
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.