Adjunct professor Shuijan Yu and centre director Robert Jenssen.
Visual Intelligence was well represented at the conference, and presented some of the centre's latest research on representation learning by deep neural networks.
The International Conference on Learning Representation (ICLR) is one of the top conferences within the field of machine learning and often dubbed "the premiere gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the many branches of artificial intelligence and deep learning". This year's conference took place in Vienna, Austria from May 7th to 11th, with around 6000 participants from 79 different countries present.
Visual Intelligence was well represented at the conference, and presented some of the centre's latest research on representation learning by deep neural networks.
For instance, adjunct professor Shujian Yu presented the paper "Cauchy-Schwarz Information Bottleneck for Regression". The paper presents a new way to regularize neural networkrs when used for regression (function estimation). This is based on a new sample estimator for the so-called Cauchy-Schwarz divergence. The paper is a collaboration between researchers at the Free University of Amsterdam and the University of Florida.
Centre director Robert Jenssen presented the paper "MAP IT to Visualize Representations". In this work, Jenssen developed a new way to visualize high-dimensional data by aligning distributions in a novel manner. This is highly relevant for deep learning to gain insight from the learned representations of the neural networks.
Thea Brüsch was a visiting PhD student at the Visual Intelligence centre from January to July 2024. She is a PhD student at the Technical Universityof Denmark. She presented the paper “On convex decision regions in deep network representations” at the ICLR workshop on Representational Alignment.
There were close to 7300 papers submitted to the conference, with about 30% of them being accepted.
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.
Tre av studentene i sivilingeniør i Kunstig Intelligens ved UiT skal delta i NM i KI. Slik gikk det da de ble intervjuet ved hjelp av kunstig intelligens (News article in nordlys.no).
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Rami Al-Belmpeisi is a PhD Research Fellow in the Visual Computing section at DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark. He visited Visual Intelligence in Tromsø from November 2025 to February 2026.
Visual Intelligence researchers came to the UiT Open Day to inform the students about UiT's study programme, and inspire them to pursue AI-related studies and career paths.
Congratulations to our colleague Michael Kampffmeyer, who received the Fridtjof Nansen Prize for Young Researchers in 2026.
We happily welcome Rahul Baburajan as a new PhD Research Fellow at SFI Visual Intelligence's hub in Tromsø.
Congratulations to our colleague Sarina Thomas, who has been recognized as one of Norway's Top 50 Women in Tech!
Elisabeth Wetzer forsker på hvordan maskiner kan lære å analysere medisinske bilder – og samtidig forstå hva legene faktisk ser etter (Norwegian news article on dagsavisen.no)
Visual Intelligence researchers organized a preparatory course for UiT AI students who are attending this year's Norwegian AI Championship.
We happily welcome Veronica Lachi and Qing Liu as new Associate Professors at SFI Visual Intelligence.
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.