The “DEEP LEARNING: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications” workshop series invites leading international scientists within the field to share recent and ongoing work as well as visions for the future.
Visual Intelligence’s advances in fundamental and applied deep learning research is gaining widespread attention and visibility.
Visual Intelligence’s advances in fundamental and applied deep learning research is gaining widespread attention and visibility.
In the summer of 2023, Visual Intelligence research was presented in two of the top venues within the field.
At the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Speech, Acoustics and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Visual Intelligence director Robert Jenssen gave a 3 hour tutorial on “Information Theory meets Deep Learning”. He gave the tutorial together with Professor Jose Principe, University of Florida, and Associate Professor Shujian Yu, Vriie Universiteit Amsterdam and UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Director Jenssen also gave one of the invited keynote talks of the workshop “DEEP LEARNING: Theory, Algorithms and Applications” organized in Trento, Italy, June 21-23, 2023. The workshop was organized by Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine, USA, Tomaso Poggio, MIT, Boston, USA, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, DeepMind, London, UK, Alessandro Sperduti, University of Padova, Italy, and Paolo Traverso, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy.
Jenssen’s talk was entitled “On representation learning with information theoretic criteria and a new method for representation learning interpretability”. The main emphasis was on Visual Intelligence’s recently published method for interpreting features in input images to so-called representation learning systems. The new method, named “Relax” was published in the International Journal of Computer Vision in 2023 as a first of its kind, and has already gained attention and follow-up work from researchers in the wider deep learning community.
Of all the tutorials at ICASSP 2023, this tutorial had the highest number of attendees. The tutorial was composed of three parts. In part I, Principe laid out the fundamentals of statistical properties of information extraction focusing in particular on measures of entropy, divergence, and mutual information. In part II, Yu explained new information theoretic learning criteria developed by the team of presenters in the recent years. Finally, in part II, Jenssen showed examples of deep learning tasks, such as e.g. multi-view clustering, where the information theoretic approach to learning has been pursued.
Director Jenssen also gave one of the invited keynote talks of the workshop “DEEP LEARNING: Theory, Algorithms and Applications” organized in Trento, Italy, June 21-23, 2023. The workshop was organized by Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine, USA, Tomaso Poggio, MIT, Boston, USA, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, DeepMind, London, UK, Alessandro Sperduti, University of Padova, Italy, and Paolo Traverso, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy.
Jenssen’s talk was entitled “On representation learning with information theoretic criteria and a new method for representation learning interpretability”. The main emphasis was on Visual Intelligence’s recently published method for interpreting features in input images to so-called representation learning systems. The new method, named “Relax” was published in the International Journal of Computer Vision in 2023 as a first of its kind, and has already gained attention and follow-up work from researchers in the wider deep learning community.
State Secretary Marianne Wilhelmsen visited UiT The Arctic University of Norway to learn more about SFI Visual Intelligence and UiT's AI initiatives in education and research.
KI-chatboten Grok har fortalt brukere at verdens rikeste mann er både smartere og sprekere enn noen andre i verden – inkludert basketballstjernen LeBron James og Leonardo da Vinci (Norwegian news article on tv2.no)
Forskere har utviklet kunstig intelligens som automatisk kan måle hjertets struktur – både raskt og presist (Norwegian popular science article on forskning.no)
The Visual Intelligence Graduate School gathered our early career researchers for a 3-Day Science Communication workshop at Skibotn field station outside of Tromsø, Norway.
Onsdag inngikk Aker Nscale og UiT Norges arktiske universitet en ti-årig samarbeidsavtale for å utvikle og styrke kompetansemiljøene for kunstig intelligens i Narvik og Nord-Norge. Aker Nscale garanterer for 100 millioner kroner i avtaleperioden (news story on uit.no)
Centre Director Robert Jenssen and PhD Candidate Lars Uebbing had two fruitful days together with researchers at The Alan Turing Institute's headquarters in London
Centre Director Robert Jenssen represented Visual Intelligence at Outlook North in Harstad, Norway
Senior Research Scientist Anders Waldeland is nominated for the Digital Trailblazer 2025 Award. The winner is announced at the Dig X Subsurface conference in Oslo, Norway in December.
Visual Intelligence researchers have developed an AI to automatically measure the heart's structure – both quickly and accurately. They believe it can help doctors detect and treat cardiovascular diseases faster.
Samuel Kuttner and Elin Kile presented research on PET and artificial intelligence at evening seminar on early detection of prostate cancer organized by the Norwegian Prostate Cancer Assocation.
Centre Director Robert Jenssen represented Visual Intelligence at Svarte Natta 2025 – North Norway's journalist and media conference organized by the Norwegian Union of Journalists.
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Preetraj Bhoodoo, who recently won the Best Poster Presentation Award at the PRESIMAL Autumn Reserach School 2025.
We happily welcome Sigurd Almli Hanssen and Adrian Duric as new PhD Candidates at SFI Visual Intelligence's hubs in Tromsø and Oslo respectively.
AI expert Eirik Agnalt Østmo explains that the law is intended to make AI technology safe for everyone (Popular science article on sciencenorway.no)
Aitor Sánchez is a PhD candidate at the Intelligent Systems Group of the University of the Basque Country in Spain. He visited Visual Intelligence in Tromsø from March to June 2025.
We happily welcome Nicolo Grometto as a new PhD Candidate at SFI Visual Intelligence in Bodø, Norway.
Visual Intelligence hosted a hybrid meeting with researchers from the Alan Turing Institute at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, Norway.
Visual Intelligence researchers participated in this year's Forskningsdagene: an annual national research festival which aims to stimulate the general public's interest and curiosity in research.
Norge arbeider med å få på plass en egen lov for kunstig intelligens. Loven skal passe på at vi bruker KI på en trygg måte (Norwegian news article at uit.no).
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.