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 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.
Centre Director Robert Jenssen was invited to give a keynote and participate in a panel discussion on AI as critical national infrastructure at the NORA Annual Conference 2025 in Halden, Norway.
Både forskere og statsråd mener kunstig intelligens bør tydelig merkes. Men forlaget som lager puslespillet som ekspertene mener er KI-generert, sier de ikke har noe med hvordan illustratører lager produktene sine (Norwegian news article by NRK)
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence to map specific immune cells in lung cancer tumors. It can lead to less costly examinations and more personalised cancer treatment (English news story on sciencenorway.no).
The Department of Physics and Technology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway is pleased to announce 4 exciting PhD Fellowships within machine learning at SFI Visual Intelligence. Application deadline: June 17th.
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Norsk forskning har utviklet kunstig intelligens som raskt kan analysere lungekreft. Ekspertene forklarer hvordan dette kan bidra til en mer effektiv og persontilpasset behandling (Norwegian news article in vg.no)
We invite submissions presenting new and original research on all aspects of Deep Learning for the Northern Lights Deep Learning (NLDL) Conference 2026.
Partiet Sentrum er blant dem som tar grepet. – Ganske smart, mener valgforsker (Norwegian news article in TV2.no)
Visual Intelligence will be well presented at ICML 2025—one of the leading international academic conference in machine learning—with four newly accepted research papers.
After four years of operation, an international AI expert panel was appointed to assess Visual Intelligence's progress and results. The evaluation was characterized by its excellent remarks on the centre's scientific quality and innovation output.
Senior Researcher Fredrik Dahl recently gave a talk about Norsk Regnesentral's work on developing AI algorithms for automatic analysis of image quality and cancer detection at Norsk Radiografforbund's mammography symposium in Oslo.