85 researchers from the Visual Intelligence consortium gathered for the Visual Intelligence Days 2025
85 researchers from the Visual Intelligence consortium convened for the Visual Intelligence Days: the annual workshop where researchers, user partners and invited guests convene to share knowledge and updates on the latest research and innovations within the centre.
85 researchers from the Visual Intelligence consortium convened for the Visual Intelligence Days: the annual workshop where researchers, user partners and invited guests convene to share knowledge and updates on the latest research and innovations within the centre.
By Petter Bjørklund, Communications Officer at SFI Visual Intelligence
This year's Visual Intelligence (VI) Days consisted of two full-packed days of presentations, collaborative work sessions, and scientific and social interaction among our attendees. The Visual Intelligence Days 2025 took place from September 23rd to 24th at Quality Airport Hotel Gardermoen in Oslo, Norway.
Before gathering for the main conference, the Visual Intelligence Graduate School (VIGS) organized a VI Days 2025 pre-program event at Fjellstua in Oslo, Norway. The pre-program's aim was to gather our young researchers for a technical and social gathering to grow transferable skills, share scientific experiences, and socialize with one another.
The technical program focused on further strengthening research collaborations within Visual Intelligence—with a particular emphasis on improving existing initatives and establishing new collaborative measures in the future.
The event was concluded with a high-stakes and competitive street curling tournament, followed by a mingling session for our early career researchers with pizza and good conversations.
After a warm welcome from the Management Team, the first Visual Intelligence Day was kickstarted with an introduction to multimodal intelligence by Professor Adín Ramírez Rivera. The session was followed by the "Dream Big" session: A dedicated session to status updates and thoughts about Visual Intelligence's bigger picture—which included presented perspectives from user partners and a panel discussion between VI's Principal Investigators.
Several Visual Intelligence researchers presented the latest research innovation highlights from the centre's main innovation areas and research challenges: medicine and health, marine sciences, energy, and earth observation.
The presented highlights included novel deep learning methods for hierarchical classification of plankton, marine acoustic data, oil spill detection, left ventricle analysis in echocardiography, and liver, vessel and tumor segmentation.
Many of the highlights were presented during a dedicated poster session later that day, allowing attendees to ask the presenters questions about their research.
After an insightful and enriching scientific program, the day was concluded with a conference dinner with delicious food, speeches, and good conversations.
The VI Days was both continued and concluded by a packed Day 2 program. Georgios Leontidis, Interdisciplinary Institute Director and Professor at the University of Aberdeen, started the day by presenting internationally-oriented perspectives on research-based innovation – providing VI's researchers new inspiration for working with this type of innovation.
The collaborative work sessions – centered around user partners University Hospital of North Norway, Helse Nord IKT, Kongsberg Satellite Services, Institute of Marine Research, Equinor, and Aker BP – was the big focus of the Day 2 program. The sessions' aim was to review ongoing and future research activities within VI's main innovation areas, and to discuss potential adjustments to the 2026 research plan.
Research leaders from VI's user partner and research partner institutions gathered for a panel discussion on how to further strengthen the research consortium, such as through new emergent areas, joint initiatives across applications, and industrial PhD projects. The panel consisted of the following participants:
After a look into the current trends in deep learning by Arnt-Børre Salberg, Chief Research Scientist at the Norwegian Computing Center, the VI Management Team concluded this year's VI Days by reviewing the results from the collaborative work sessions and wishing everyone a pleasant trip home.
Artur Radzivil is a PhD Research Fellow at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. He visited Visual Intelligence in Oslo from September to November 2025.
Congratulations to Marius Aasan, who successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Oslo on February 10th.
We had the pleasure of talking to UiT students about the career opportunities at SFI Visual Intelligence and UiT at TEKdagen 2026.
Centre Director Robert Jenssen met with Sigrun Aasland, Norwegian Minister of Research and Higher Education, alongside UiT and Aker Nscale representatives to give an update on Aker Nscale's AI Giga Factory in Narvik, Norway.
Zheming Xu is a PhD Research Fellow at Beijing Jiaotong University. She visited Visual Intelligence in Tromsø from September 2025 to January 2026.
Få kvinner søker seg til fag innenfor kunstig intelligens. Det kan skape blindsoner, mener ekspert (Norwegian news story in NRK.no).
Visual Intelligence was represented by Centre Director Robert Jenssen, Associate Professor Kristoffer Wickstrøm, and VI Alumna Sara Björk at the Arctic Frontiers side session "How can AI and satellite collaboration strengthen Arctic resilience?".
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.
We happily welcome Keyne Oei and Boye Sjo as new PhD Research Fellows at SFI Visual Intelligence in Tromsø and Oslo respectively.
Congratulations to Børge Solli Andreassen, who successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Oslo on December 18th 2025.
Attracting 280 international AI researchers, the Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference (NLDL) 2026 was successfully organized from January 5th to 9th 2026 at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, Norway.
Visual Intelligence hosted a special NLDL 2026 mentoring session for young researchers with Professor Mihaela van der Schaar – a globally renowned AI researcher and expert
Centre Director and NLDL General Chair Robert Jenssen was interviewed by NRK about this year's Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference.
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270 KI-eksperter fra nært og fjernt møtes ved UiT for å dele siste forskningsnytt. Et av formålene er å styrke internasjonale bånd og samarbeid på tvers av det globale KI-miljøet (Norwegian news article on uit.no)
Med ferske millioner på konto skal Senter for pasientnær kunstig intelligens (SPKI) ved UNN bidra i et stort nasjonalt KI-prosjekt de neste fire årene (News article on unn.no)
We happily welcome Zijun Sun as a new Doctoral Research Fellow at SFI Visual Intelligence in Tromsø, Norway.
The Visual Intelligence Management Team, Robert Jenssen, Line Eikvil, Anne Solberg, and Inger Solheim, wishes everyone a happy holiday season and new year!
Several of our researchers represented SFI Visual Intelligence at EurIPS 2025 – the NeurIPS-endorsed European AI conference.
Congratulations to Senior Research Scientist Anders Waldeland, who was awarded the Digital Trailblazer Award 2025 at the Dig X Subsurface conference in Oslo, Norway.
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence that can automatically measure the heart's structure – both quickly and accurately (Popular science article on sciencenorway.no)