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.
We congratulate PhD Fellow Suaiba Salahuddin, who will start as new Head Engineer at the Climate-Ecological Observatory for Arctic Tundra (COAT)
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Researchers at Visual Intelligence have developed AI to predict the risk of getting breast cancer within one to five years. It can help detect more cases of breast cancer earlier.
Visual Intelligence researchers contributed with various activities during Forskningsdagene 2026: Norway's annual research festival.
100 researchers, user partners and invited guests gathered in Oslo, Norway for the Visual Intelligence Days: the centre's annual conference for sharing knowledge and updates on the latest research and innovations.
Why should we think twice before using AI as a therapist, romantic partner, or to help out with homework? AI expert Elisabeth Wetzer explains (Popular science article on sciencenorway.no / forskning.no).
Associate Professor Kristoffer Wickstrøm was interviewed by Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK) about the ongoing debate on whether to halt current and future AI development
Representatives from the Research Council of Norway came to Visual Intelligence's hub in Tromsø for a site visit meeting.
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Harald Lykke Joakimsen, a PhD Candidate at Visual Intelligence's hub in Tromsø, will compete in Forsker Grand Prix: Norway's national popular science competition.
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Congratulations to Centre Director Robert Jenssen, who was appointed as a new fellow of the International Associaton for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).
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Why should we think twice before using AI as a therapist, romantic partner, or to help with homework? AI expert Elisabeth Wetzer explains.
Athinoulla Konstantinou is a PhD student at the University of Aberdeen. She visited Visual Intelligence's hub in Tromsø to work with equivariant modelling.
Visual Intelligence gathered experts from Norwegian politics, research council, industry, the public sector, and academia to discuss the value of Norwegian AI competence and Norwegian-developed models.
Visual Intelligence researchers are attending two AI-oriented events at Arendalsuka 2026: Norway's largest annual political festival.
Visual Intelligence hosted over 45 international AI researchers for the DL2026 workshop at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
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)