A Norwegian centre for research-based innovation

Through long-term research in close collaboration between industry, public institutions and prominent research partners, we enable novel innovations, technology transfer, internationalization and researcher training.

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We research the next generation of deep learning methodology for visual data and produce solutions for our consortium partners across innovation areas in medicine and health, marine science, energy, and earth observation.

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Visual Intelligence Seminar #98: EoS-FM: Can an Ensemble of Specialists Models Act As a Generalist Feature Extractor?

June 18, 2026

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Visual Intelligence well represented at Arendalsuka 2026

August 13, 2026

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.

When:
September 17, 2026
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18:00
September 17, 2026
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20:30
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Fint Kafé & Bar

How can AI help detect diseases within our body? How can it monitor the Arctic climate? And how does AI even learn how to do these things in the first place? We bring together AI researchers from UiT to share the latest research – explained in simple terms.

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How can AI help detect oil spills in the ocean?

August 27, 2026

Research shows how AI models can help, potentially making environmental monitoring faster and cheaper.

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Deep learning: A non-invasive alternative to arterial blood samling in dynamic PET studies?

August 25, 2026

We propose the FC-DLIF model, which offers a non-invasive alternative that is flexible to temporal shifts and different scan durations

Recent publications

Mitigating Embedding Leakage via Latent Disruption with Controlled Reconstruction

By authors:

Zhiyuan Wu, Changkyu Choi, Shujian Yu, Robert Jenssen, Ali Ramezani-Kebrya

Published in:

Transactions on Machine Learning Research (June/2026)

on

August 6, 2026

Oil spills, lookalikes and a whole lot of noise: Unsupervised detection and localisation of oil spills in SAR imagery through reconstruction-based deep learning

By authors:

Sigurd Almli Hanssen, Vilde Gjærum, Sara Björk, Elisabeth Wetzer, Arnt-Børre Salberg, Sébastien Lefèvre, Kristoffer Knutsen Wickstrøm

Published in:

Pending accept in renowned journal

on

August 1, 2026

A variational framework for the complexity of PDE solutions

By authors:

Juan Esteban Suarez Cardona, Holger Boche, Gitta Astrid Hildegard Kutyniok

Published in:

BIT Numerical Mathematics, 66:40, 2026

on

June 16, 2026

Longitudinal Multi-View Modeling for Breast Cancer Risk Prediction

By authors:

Solveig Thrun, Zijun Sun, Suaiba A. Salahuddin, Kristoffer Wickstrøm, Elisabeth Wetzer, Stine Hansen, Robert Jenssen, Michael Kampffmeyer

Published in:

MICCAI 2026

on

June 13, 2026

Symbolic Recovery of Differential Equations: The Identifiability Problem

By authors:

Philipp Scholl, Aras Bacho, Holger Boche, Gitta Astrid Hildegard Kutyniok

Published in:

Mach Learn 115, 139 (2026)

on

May 29, 2026

An annotated aerial imagery dataset for automated detection of harbour seals in Svalbard, Norway

By authors:

Zoé Lemoine, Puneet Sharma, Kit M. Kovacs, Christian Lydersen, Marie-Anne Blanchet

Published in:

Scientific Data

on

May 20, 2026

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Visual Intelligence address the research challenges of deep learning and computer vision that limit our user partners in utilizing their complex visual data in their applications.

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Innovation areas

We contribute to reliable use of AI to detect heart disease, monitor the environment and potential natural disasters as well as detecting natural resources. Read more about our work in the different innovation areas.

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Our partners

Visual Intelligence is a consortium headed by UiT The Arctic University of Norway with research partners at the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Computing Center. Together with our consortium of high-profile user partners, we create cutting-edge solutions that will be implemented in the applications of the user partners.

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