News from Visual Intelligence

Communication LoG meetup

December 4, 2023

Tromsø Local Meetup for the Learning on Graphs conference

Visit from The Computer Vision Lab, University of Victoria, Canada

November 25, 2023

The Visual Intelligence group at NR recently had a visit by from Mélissa Côté, Research Associate at the Computer Vision Lab to discuss deep learning and marine acoustic data.

Ja takk til «krysskulturelle» prosjekter drevet fram av teknologiutvikling

November 21, 2023

Forskningsrådet står ovenfor en krevende oppgave med å blidgjøre et stort og aktivt KI-miljø i Norge. Vi håper at eksemplene på vellykket samarbeid mellom humanister og teknologer kan være til inspirasjon i prosessen

KnowEarth: Maskinlæring og sunn fornuft

November 4, 2023

KnowEarth skal integrere menneskelig kunnskap i dagens AI-modeller og lage neste generasjons analyseverktøy. Nå er arbeidet endelig i gang!

Visual Intelligence presents at Arctic Investment Day

October 31, 2023

Michael Kampffmeyer presents "AI's future path, what are the opportunities?" at the Arctic Investment day 2023 hosted by Norinova.

Jacob Kauffmann research stay at Visual intelligence

October 30, 2023

Jacob Kauffmann, PhD student at the Machine Learning group at Technical University of Berlin, was a guest scientist at Visual Intelligence, UiT July-October 2023.

Best presentation award at AINM 2023

October 23, 2023

Fredrik Aspheim, Luigi Luppino, and Samuel Kuttner were co-authors of work that were awarded for best presentation at the Artificial Intelligence and Informatics in Nuclear Medicine Symposium Symposium (AINM) 2023.

Open position: PhD fellow in deep learning for future healthcare solutions

October 19, 2023

The PhD position is part of the UiT-funded project “Consortium for patient-centered artificial intelligence” in close collaboration with the University Hospital of North Norway. As a part of our team, you will be key for transforming healthcare for the future needs with AI.

Visual Intelligence Days 2023 was a great success!

October 9, 2023

The Visual Intelligence Days (VI Days) took place Sept. 27 and 28 at Hotel Olavsgaard outside Oslo with 85 participants.

Successful PhD Defence by Sara Björk

October 6, 2023

Sara Marie Björk defended her PhD thesis “Deep convolutional regression modelling for forest parameter retrieval” on October 6th 2023 at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

Klare for å levere toppforskning og innovasjon innen kunstig intelligens (KI)

September 7, 2023

Visual intelligence og norske forskningssentre innen kunstig intelligens er klare til å bidra til regjeringens ambisiøse milliardsatsning på KI for å utvikle trygg, pålitelig, og effektiv kunstig intelligens som vil gagne samfunnet, innovasjonen og utdanningen.

Vil rekruttere kunstig intelligens-forskere med utstilling

September 4, 2023

Maskinlæringsgruppa ved UiT skal i gang med å lage en permanent utstilling om kunstig intelligens. Målet er å rekruttere fremtidens forskere innen faget.

Work presented at CVPR 2023 and Invited Talk at MIUA 2023

August 25, 2023

Visual Intelligence presents at premier conferences.

Well received PhD defense at the Visual Intelligence Research Centre

August 23, 2023

Daniel Johansen Trosten defended his PhD thesis “Improving Representation Learning for Deep Clustering and Few-shot Learning” on August 23rd 2023 at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

Invited lecturer at DTU course on Advanced Topics in Machine Learning

August 23, 2023

Visual Intelligence researcher Kristoffer Wickstrøm was invited to give lectures at the Technical University of Denmark's summer school on self-supervised learning.

Vil du formidle forsking på og kunnskap om kunstig intelligens?

August 23, 2023

Ledig stilling som kommunikasjonsrådgiver i forskningsruppe for maskinlæring. Vi søker engasjert formidler som kan øke vår synlighet ved å formidle vår forskning til et bredt publikum.

Visual Intelligence research presented in invited keynote talks and tutorials at the top venues

July 4, 2023

Visual Intelligence’s advances in fundamental and applied deep learning research is gaining widespread attention and visibility.

Summer course on self-supervised learning

June 23, 2023

Visual Intelligence-lead course on self-supervised learning as part of the NORA summer school 2023

Tromsø AI Meetup 2023: A gathering to inspire and connect AI enthusiasts

June 12, 2023

The Tromsø AI Meetup 2023 brought together AI enthusiasts at Storgata Camping to connect, learn from notable speakers, and explore the exciting developments in AI, fostering a community passionate about responsible innovation in the field.

High Quality PhD defense in the Visual Intelligence research centre

June 12, 2023

Changkyu Choi defended his PhD thesis “Advancing Deep Learning for Marine Environment Monitoring” on June 9th 2023 at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

VI invited to the Norwegian Parliament

June 8, 2023

Visual Intelligence contributed to the Norwegian Parliament’s AI seminar organized by the Health and Care Services Committee

University Hospital of North Norway: "AI is the path forward"

June 1, 2023

The University Hospital of North Norway, partner in Visual Intelligence, in the media: "AI is the path forward". Read the full story (in Norwegian).

Undervannsrobot – fra konstruksjon til forskning

May 11, 2023

Fjernstyrte undervannsroboter er et viktig verktøy i kartlegging, utforskning og overvåkning av verdens havområder. I slutten av april fikk 22 elever fra videregående skoler i Troms og Finnmark designe, bygge og anvende fjernstyrte undervannsroboter.

Pitchday 2023

May 5, 2023

A pitch day was organized at UiT for to connect students with companies for external master’s projects and job opportunities in computer science and machine learning.

Master thesis on automation in the fish processing industry using machine learning.

April 21, 2023

Master thesis on automation in the fish processing industry using machine learning by Josten Henriksen.

Visit by Prof. Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine

March 15, 2023

Prof. Pierre Baldi visited Visual Intelligence in Tromsø, February 16-17, 2023. The two days were filled with fruitful meetings on potential scientific collaboration between UCI and Visual Intelligence.

Visual Intelligence PhD students at UiT open day

March 6, 2023

Machine learning phd students from Visual Intelligence present at UiT The Arctic University of Norway's open day 2023, for recruitment of new students.

VIGS trip to Skibotn!

March 3, 2023

VIGS is Visual Intelligence's social and scientific initiative for phd students, postdocs and early career researchers! May 3-5 VIGS will organize a joint trip to UiT's field station in Indre Troms. Sign up and read more about the social and scientific program in out event!

High spirits at the Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference - NLDL 2023

January 13, 2023

The Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference, Tromsø, January 9th to 13th, was a great gathering of 250 deep learning researchers.

Excellent PhD defense in the Visual Intelligence research centre

December 19, 2022

Stine Hansen defended her PhD thesis “Leveraging Supervoxels for Medical Image Volume Segmentation With Limited Supervision” on Dec. 16th at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

Report from the VIGS gathering in Tromsø

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.

Visual Intelligence visits by Lars Kai Hansen and Irina Voiculescu

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.

Successful PhD defense in the Visual Intelligence research centre

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.

Visual Intelligence paper accepted to NeurIPS

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!

New innovation project funded on deep learning-based AI for quantitative PET imaging

September 15, 2022

Developing deep learning-based AI for quantitative PET imaging. Groups joining forces and a new innovation project.

Best paper award to Visual Intelligence trio at the CVCS 2022 conference

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!

Great success for Visual Intelligence at Arendalsuka

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!

Visual Intelligence guest researcher Ane Blazquez Garcia defends her PhD

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!

Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference 2023

July 7, 2022

Updated program and call for papers for the Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference is now available.

Professor Jose Principe from the University of Florida visited Visual Intelligence

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.

Visual Intelligence workshop carved out opportunities for leveraging multiple sources of health data

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.

Srishti Gautam receives best poster award

June 17, 2022

Srishti Gautam, PhD student in Visual Intelligence, at UiT received the Best Poster award at the NORA annual conference 2022

Visual Intelligence keynote at the 2022 Norwegian AI Society Conference

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.

Invited tutorial at the Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Symposium by Kristoffer Wickstrøm

June 2, 2022

PhD candidate at UiT Kristoffer Wickstrøm gives invited tutorial at the 2022 Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Society (NAIS) Conference in Oslo.

Joint Doctoral Course between UiO and UiT

May 27, 2022

Self Supervised Explainability on Graphs

Visit by technology and science school class

May 27, 2022

Visual Intelligence had the great pleasure of hosting a school class from Kongsbakken VGS in Tromsø on April 20th 2022.

Annual Report 2021

May 6, 2022

The Visual Intelligence annual report for 2021 is now published.

Pitch-day for ideas for master’s projects for the computer science and machine learning students at UiT

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.

Talk about Ethics in AI at the Aim North 2022 conference

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.