News from Visual Intelligence

Norwegian Computing Center presented VI work at The Biennial Geophysical Seminar

March 19, 2024

Researcher Anders U. Waldeland from The Norwegian Computing Center gave a talk at The Biennial Geophysical Seminar in Kristiansand presenting work from Visual Intelligence on seismic structure search using a neural network trained with self-supervised learning.

Visual Intelligence visited by state secretary Tomas Norvoll

March 18, 2024

State secretary Tomas Norvoll visited Visual Intelligence and was given a tour at the PET center at The University Hospital of North Norway by centre director Robert Jenssen and associate professor Samuel Kuttner to learn more about research and innovation within PET and AI.

Collaborative paper with The Alan Turing Institute and the British Antarctic Survey accepted in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

March 18, 2024

We are thrilled to announce that the paper "Interrogating Sea Ice Predictability With Gradients", a collaborative paper between Visual Intelligence, The Alan Turing Institute and the British Antarctic Survey, has been accepted in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.

Successful PhD defense by Srishti Gautam

March 15, 2024

We congratulate Srishti Gautam for successfully defending her PhD thesis and achieving the PhD degree in Science at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

Highly successful Pitch Day at UiT

March 14, 2024

Thank you to all students and invited presenters who participated in the Pitch Day at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

High schoolers visited Visual Intelligence in Tromsø

March 13, 2024

We were happy to host a school class from Kongsbakken upper secondary school at UiT Norges arktiske universitet on March 13th.

Visual Intelligence meeting with state secretary from Ministry of Health and Care Services

March 12, 2024

Visual Intelligence director Robert Jenssen recently met with State Secretary Ellen Rønning-Arnesen of Ministry of Health and Care Services.

- UiT har en viktig rolle i utviklingen av KI i nord

March 12, 2024

Det sier førsteamanuensis Kristoffer Wickstrøm. På NHO Arktis sin årskonferanse i Alta delte han innsikt om KI-potensialet og argumenterte for hvorfor nordnorske bedrifter bør investere i denne teknologien. (Norwegian article).

Co-director Line Eikvil featured in top list of 50 most influential tech women in Norway

March 8, 2024

Congratulations to Visual Intelligence co-director Line Eikvil, who was featured on the Abelia and ODA Network's list of the fifty most influential tech women in Norway!

What causes an AI program to treat genders differently?

March 8, 2024

Artificial intelligence tends to perform worse on women, but why? What can be done to ensure that AI-related technologies work well for everyone?

Solid Visual Intelligence representation at UiT Open Days

March 7, 2024

Our Visual Intelligence researchers had a delightful time talking about the AI study programme to high school pupils at this year's Open Day events at UiT.

Gave talks to students during UiT Career Days

March 6, 2024

Associate professor Michael Kampffmeyer and centre director Robert Jenssen gave two exciting talks for students at the UiT Career Days 2024

New principal investigators at Visual Intelligence

February 15, 2024

Visual Intelligence congratulates associate professors Elisabeth Wetzer, Ali Ramezani-Kebrya, and Kristoffer Wickstrøm with their recently promoted roles as principal investigators at the research centre.

Two Visual Intelligence papers accepted for prestigious AI conference

February 9, 2024

New information theories and divergences by Visual Intelligence have been developed and accepted in the prestigious International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2024. ICLR has an acceptance rate of approximately 30 percent.

forskning.no: Can Norwegian invention revolutionize AI?

February 9, 2024

In a Norwegian news story by forskning.no, Visual Intelligence director Robert Jenssen comments on the "Tsetlin machine", an AI algorithim developed by researcher Ole-Christoffer Granmo from the University of Agder.

Taught graph machine learning at the Geilo Winter School

February 8, 2024

Associate professor Benjamin Ricaud was one of three invited lecturers at the 24th Geilo Winter School. His presentations focused on graph spectral theory, graph signal processing and their connection to graph machine learning.

TV2: Facebook to tag AI-generated pictures: - Major news

February 8, 2024

In a Norwegian news story by TV2, associate professor Kristoffer Wickstrøm shares his views on Meta's recent statements saying they will tag all AI-generated pictures published on their platforms.

TV2: Experts warn: - Makes you a felon

February 5, 2024

In a news story by TV2, associate professor Elisabeth Wetzer at UiT Machine Learning Group addresses the accessibility of deepfake tools and the necessity of proper AI legislation to combat the production and spread of such materials.

Visual Intelligence represented at Arctic Frontiers 2024

January 30, 2024

Visual Intelligence (VI) director Robert Jenssen represented the research centre during the Arctic Frontiers panel discussion, "Tilpasning til fremtidens næringsliv: kunnskap og kunstig intelligens".

Meet Petter, our new science communicator

January 26, 2024

His core work tasks involve communicating research activity from Visual Intelligence and UiT Machine Learning Group, as well as being a facilitative resource for science communication. - I am very excited to get acquainted with our researchers and their projects, says Bjørklund.