January 13, 2023
The Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference, Tromsø, January 9th to 13th, was a great gathering of 250 deep learning researchers.
December 19, 2022
Stine Hansen with the defended her PhD thesis “Leveraging Supervoxels for Medical Image Volume Segmentation With Limited Supervision” on Dec. 16th at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
December 1, 2022
7-8 November VIGS organized a successful gathering for early career researchers in Tromsø. The program was filled with both a social and technical program and gathered around 20 researchers from the research partners in Visual Intelligence.
November 16, 2022
We had the great pleasure of hosting Lars Kai Hansen, Technical University of Denmark, and Irina Voiculescu, University of Oxford, at the Visual Intelligence centre in Tromsø.
November 14, 2022
Kristoffer Wickstrøm defended his PhD thesis “Advancing deep learning with emphasis on data-driven healthcare” on Oct 28 at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
September 23, 2022
PhD student Srishti Gautam in Visual Intelligence and her collaborators from UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Technical University of Berlin got their paper "ProtoVAE: A Trustworthy Self-Explainable Prototypical Variational Model" accepted to NeurIPS 2022!
September 15, 2022
Developing deep learning-based AI for quantitative PET imaging. Groups joining forces and a new innovation project.
September 14, 2022
Suaiba Salahuddin, Stine Hansen, and Sristhi Gautam won the best paper award at the 11th Color and Visual Computing Symposium, Sept. 8-9, 2022!
August 18, 2022
It was absolutely packed with people when Visual Intelligence, NORA, and CAIR/UIA invited a strong panel to debate the future of healthcare with AI at Arendalsuka 2022!
July 30, 2022
Ane Blazquez Garcia, University of the Basque Country and the Ikerlan research institute, visited Visual Intelligence in the fall of 2021. Partially based on work conducted during this visit, she successfully defended her PhD thesis on July 27th 2022. Congratulations!
July 7, 2022
Updated program and call for papers for the Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference is now available.
July 4, 2022
Visual Intelligence had the great pleasure of hosting professor Jose Principe from the University of Florida for a 3-day visit in Tromsø June 29 - July 1, 2022.
July 1, 2022
The workshop brought together partners from the Cancer Registry and the University Hospital of North Norway, as well as researchers from the wider consortium.
June 17, 2022
Srishti Gautam, PhD student in Visual Intelligence, at UiT received the Best Poster award at the NORA annual conference 2022
June 9, 2022
Director Robert Jenssen gave the keynote "Visual Intelligence advances deep learning research towards innovations" at the 2022 Norwegian AI Society Conference (NAIS) in Oslo.
June 2, 2022
PhD candidate at UiT Kristoffer Wickstrøm gives invited tutorial at the 2022 Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Society (NAIS) Conference in Oslo.
May 27, 2022
Visual Intelligence had the great pleasure of hosting a school class from Kongsbakken VGS in Tromsø on April 20th 2022.
April 19, 2022
We invited companies, the public sector, and other organizations to present their ideas for master’s projects and to connect with students having an interest and background in computer science and machine learning.
April 6, 2022
Director Robert Jenssen gave a talk about explainable AI connected to the overarching theme of the Aim North conference, namely Ethics in AI. The talk outlined e.g. VI's recent results on detecting artifacts in medical images by our "Prototypical Relevance Propagation" method.
March 29, 2022
The Pioneer AI Centre is Denmark's flagship centre on AI, headed by prof. Serge Belongie, University of Copenhagen/KU. The official opening of the centre took place March 28 2022 at the "Black Diamond" in Copenhagen city centre.
March 28, 2022
New project associated with Visual Intelligence on reduce bottlenecks related to uncertainty estimates in classification by a combined statistical and machine learning approach. The project is on recognition of specific objects at and within the seabed from several image types.
March 25, 2022
The Visual Intelligence Graduate School (VIGS) will be an important component in the NORA research school and Visual Intelligence's Northern Lights Deep Learning (NLDL) conference will be a venue for winter school activities within this nation-wide initiative.
March 22, 2022
Visual Intelligence is happy to be a partner in a newly funded Horizon Europe project on AI-supported picture analysis within healthcare!
March 22, 2022
Associate Professor Cristina Soguero-Ruiz visited Tromsø and gave a very interesting talk on March 17th 2022 on how to exploit AI and machine learning for medical image analysis and healthcare applications.
February 25, 2022
Through the ongoing Akademia Avtale fund between Equinor and UiT. The goal is to develop new innovative approaches for combining image data and other sources of information in the context of wind energy.
January 3, 2022
Beslutninger gjort av algoritmer gir oss problemer med uforståelige forklaringer.
October 15, 2021
The "Visual Intelligence days" is coming up shortly, and VI-collaborators will gather in Oslo to connect and share knowledge. Phd-students and early career researchers will also gather one day in advance to socialize. Please see the updated program.
October 15, 2021
The paper review some recent advances in developing machine learning methods for marine science applications in Norway. It is published in the Journal of Ocean Technology 2021.
October 4, 2021
Director Robert Jenssen gave a talk and participated in a panel debate organized by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters on the topic “How is AI affecting democratic processes?“.
September 8, 2021
Director of Visual Intelligence Robert Jenssen gave a talk at the BIAS Summer school at University of Bristol. The talk describes how deep learning is leveraged in computer vision in an industrial innovation project for monitoring power lines in Norway.
August 26, 2021
I fremtiden kan det bli langt lettere å bruke kunstig intelligens til å finne riktig fangst. Det sørger en helt ny algoritme for.
July 7, 2021
The Alan Turing Institute and Visual Intelligence have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the intention to set up exciting avenues for joint research.
July 7, 2021
Senter for forskningsdrevet innovasjon, Visual Intelligence, som ledes fra UiT Norges arktiske universitet, har inngått en avtale med The Alan Turing Institute.
June 28, 2021
Qinghui Liu, Michael Kampffmeyer, Robert Jenssen and Arnt-Børre Salberg have published their paper Self-constructing graph neural networks to model long-range pixel dependencies for semantic segmentation of remote sensing images in International Journal of Remote Sensing.
June 24, 2021
Ahcène Boubekki, Michael Kampffmeyer, Ulf Brefeld and Robert Jenssen have published their paper Joint optimization of an autoencoder for clustering and embedding in journal Machine Learning (2021).
May 27, 2021
Did you miss any of our recent seminars? When we host seminars and events we often record relevant talks and presentations and make them available at our youtube channel. You can access all our content through our "outreach" page.
May 20, 2021
SFI Visual Intelligence is organizing a graduate school for early career research fellows connected to Visual Intelligence. VIGS aims at connecting research fellows across our different research institutions to build social and professional networks.
May 20, 2021
SFI Visual Intelligence has published the annual report for 2020. The report is approved by the Visual Intelligence board and available for download as a pdf document under "publicity".
April 20, 2021
Visual Intelligence is co-hosting the Midnight sun conference 2021 June 15-16 together with prominent partners in health research in Norway. The conference will be a hybrid physical/digital event and registration is now open.
March 30, 2021
The 5-year master's program accepts its first students Fall 2021. The program will provides a broad and solid foundation for working with artificial intelligence through classes in informatics, mathematics, statistics and specialized subjects on artificial intelligence.
March 23, 2021
Director Robert Jenssen gave an overview of the priorities and activities of Visual Intelligence for health research for the Board of the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority (Helse Nord). Helse Nord is governed by the Ministry of Health and Care Services.
March 17, 2021
Director Robert Jenssen gave an overview of the health research activities and priorities within the centre in a talk to the Norwegian coordination group for the specialist health care services (Nasjonal samarbeidsgruppe for helseforskning i spesialisthelsetjen - NSG).
March 16, 2021
Visual Intelligence Director Robert Jenssen gave a keynote talk at the Nordic Conference on Patient-oriented Products, March 16th 2021. The talk was entitled "Machine learning for risk analysis and personalized medicine using data from electronic health records and PET imaging".
March 15, 2021
Visual Intelligence Director Robert Jenssen gave the opening keynote talk at the Swedish Symposia on Deep Learning and Image Analysis, organized online 15th March 2021. The talk was entitled "Industrial and basic deep learning research for computer vision with limited labels".
February 4, 2021
Some of the recent talks from Visual Intelligence is now available for streaming on youtube. Recently we made available the opening lectures, VI seminars, and our workshop on limited training data. We continuously post our recorded webinars on the channel, so check it out.
February 3, 2021
Visual Intelligence Director Robert Jenssen gave a talk about AI in future medicine and health for the Norwegian Medical Students Association at “Verdensteateret” in Tromsø. The talk outlined the role of SFI Visual Intelligence as a research centre and dominant actor within ...
January 21, 2021
Northern Lights Deep Learning Workshop 2021 is over and we are very happy with how it turned out! We want to thank all the contributors and the researchers from around the world that presented their work. We look forward to host NLDL also in 2022, but then physically in Tromsø!