Visual Intelligence Days 2025

Date: 23rd and 24th September 2025

Location:  Quality Airport Hotel Gardermoen, Conference hotel located close to Gardermoen airport.

How to get to the conference venue

Use this Google Maps link for the exact location.

Take shuttle bus S22 from Gardermoen airport. Go to Bus Stop #41

Between 7:00 and 10:00, the bus leaves at: hh:10, hh:25, hh:40, hh:55.

Otherwise at: hh:25 and hh:55.

Poster program

Click here to view the poster program

Aim of VI Days

Researchers and personnel from all VI partners gather for knowledge-sharing and updates on the latest Visual Intelligence (VI) research and innovations. We have a social program with plenty of opportunities for dialogue, interaction, discussions, networking, and socializing.

Visual Intelligence Graduate School (VIGS) Pre-Program

September 22nd

The pre-program consists of an afternoon gathering for VI's young researchers and graduate students to grow transferable skills, share scientific experiences and getting to know each other across institutions.

The event takes place at Fjellstua / Megazone (Mariboes gate 2, 0179 Oslo) in Oslo City Centre: Google Maps link

• 14:00 Welcome / Introduction
• 14:15 Lunch with Refreshments
• 15:00 Talk and Discussion: VI OverView: Cross Institution Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing
• 16:00 Indoor Street Curling Tournament
• 18:30 Dinner with Pizza and Refreshments
• 20:30 Socializing, Mingling, and Discussion
• 22:00 End of event
  

Main Program

Click this link for the full program

September 23rd

• 08:30 - 09:30 – Registration
• 09:30 - 09:45 – Welcome and "State-of-the-VI-Union"
• 09:45 - 10:30 – Introduction to multimodal intelligence (Session chair: Michael Kampffmeyer)
• 10:30 - 11:00 – Coffee break
• 11:00 - 13:00 – “Dream big session” - Part I (Session chairs: Elisabeth Wetzer & Alba Ordoñez)
  
• User partner presentations: Status updates and thoughts about the bigger picture. The presentations will be followed up by a panel discussion in Part II.
  • Equinor (David Wade, Researcher Geoscience Data & Analytics)
  • Aker BP (Peder Aursand, Manager – Subsurface Data Science)
  • Institute of Marine Research (Nils Olav Handegard, Principal Scientist)
  • Kongsberg Satellite Services (Vilde Gjærum, ML Developer)
  • Helse Nord IKT (Jonas Nordhaug Myhre, Product Owner)
  • University Hospital of North Norway (Karl Øyvind Mikalsen, Head of Department at Center for Patient-Centered Artificial Intelligence)
  • Cancer Registry of Norway (Narasimha Veeraragavan, Senior Advisor)
  • GE HealthCare (Erik Steen, Chief Engineer)

• 13:00 - 14:00 – Lunch
• 14:00 - 15:00 – "Dream Big" Session - Part 2
  
  • VI's research challenge PI's discuss the bigger picture and "dreams" presented by user partners in Part I.
  • Panelists: Alba Ordoñez (NR), Arnt-Børre Salberg (NR), Michael Kampffmeyer (UiT), Adín Ramírez Rivera (UiO), Kristoffer Wickstrøm (UiT), & Elisabeth Wetzer (UiT / Moderator)

• 15:00 - 15:30 – Group photo & coffee break
• 15:30 - 16:30 – VIs Research-based innovation highlights I (Session chairs: Changkyu Choi, Ali Ramezani-Kebrya & Line Eikvil)
  
  • This session showcases ongoing research-based innovation subprojects and directions with the aim to transfer knowledge and methodology across applications and partners.
    • Hierarchical classification of plankton (Amund Vedal, Senior Researcher at Norwegian Computing Center)
    • Deep learning methods for marine acoustic data (Ingrid Utseth, Researcher at Norwegian Computing Center)
    • Reducing missed slicks (Harald L. Joakimsen, PhD Candidate at UiT)
    • Reducing manual workload oil spill detection (Kristoffer Wickstrøm, Associate Professor at UiT)
    • Seismic foundation model (Anders U. Waldeland, Senior Researcher at Norwegian Computing Center)
    • Graph affinity and MIM refinement for seismic super-tiles (Marius Aasan, PhD Candidate at UiO)

• 16:30  16:45 - Coffee break
• 16:45 - 17:30 – VIs Research-based innovation highlights II (Session chairs: Anders U. Waldeland & Anne Solberg)
  • Left Ventricle Analysis in Echocardiography: From CNNs to Foundation Models (Durgesh K. Singh, Researcher at UiT / Preetraj Bhoodoo, PhD Candidate at UiO)
  • Evolving Deep Learning for Dynamic PET: From Blood Sampling to Physics-Informed Innovation (Christian Salomonsen, PhD Candidate at UiT / Elisabeth Wetzer, Associate Professor at UiT)
  • Precise uncertainty modelling of key points in mammograms using Graph Convolutional Networks (Fredrik A. Dahl, Senior Researcher at Norwegian Computing Center)
  • Towards clinical application of liver, vessel, and tumor segmentation (Eirik Agnalt Østmo, PhD Candidate at UiT)
• 17:30 - 19:30 - Posters and interaction
  • This session highlights VI-relevant work across the consortium. The intention is to mingle and to learn from each other.
• 20:00 - Dinner in Hotel Restaurant

September 24th

• 08:30 - 09:30 – International perspectives and inspiration for research-based innovation by Georgios Leontidis (Session chair: Robert Jenssen)
  
  • Prof Georgios Leontidis is the Interdisciplinary Institute Director (AI & Big Data) and a professor of machine learning at the University of Aberdeen. He is a Turing Academic Liaison (The Alan Turing Institute), an Ellis Society member, and a former member of the Scottish AI Alliance leadership group

• 09:30 - 10:00 – Coffee
• 10:00 - 12:00 – Collaborative work session with user partners (Session chair: Inger Solheim)
  
  • Work sessions centered around individual user partners. Practical info will be given at the opening.
  • Structure
    
    • Presentations to review status of ongoing/planned activities.
    • Discuss progress, path forward and potential adjustments to the research plan for 2026 and potential directions for the next years
• 12:00 - 12:30 – Coffee break
• 12:30 - 13:00 – VIGS "Overview" initative and VIGS updates (Session chair: Petter Bjørklund)
• 13:00 - 14:00 – Lunch
• 14:00 - 14:45 – Outlook I - Research leaders' perspectives
  
  • Panel: User partner and research partners' leaders discuss further strengthening of the VI consortium, such as:
    
    • Emerging areas
    • New joint initiatives across applications
    • Strengthening through industry PhDs
• 14:45 - 15:00 – Leg Stretch
• 15:00 - 15:30 – Outlook II - Trends in Deep Learning by Arnt Børre Salberg (NR) (Session chair: Ingrid Utseth)
• 15:30 - 16:00 – Closing Session (Session chair: Line Eikvil)
  
  • Summaries and looking ahead
    
    • Insight into the collaborative work sessions with user partners
    • "Goodbye" by the VI Director and Co-Directors
• 16:00 – End

Registration

You may register for the VI Days 2025 HERE.

We have reserved a limited amount of hotel rooms. The rooms can be reserved for NOK 1290. The price is for one guest and one night.

You may reserve a room at the venue by August 20th.

The reservation is open for changes until August 20th.

For presenters

Templates for posters and presentations can be found here: Graphic charter

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