The company's interest in Visual Intelligence is to utilize new developments in artificial intelligence (AI) to improve and automate interpretations of data, while providing the centre with data, problem formulations, and different forms of guidance.
The Norwegian oil exploration and development company Aker BP joined the Visual Intelligence (VI) consortium in Spring 2024.
Aker BP is engaged in exploration, field development and production of oil and gas on the Norwegian continental shelf. The company produces energy and provides raw materials to a wide range of products used in our daily lives.
Aker BP aims to change the oil and gas industry through different measures, such as by reducing emissions and creating new industries. The company is familiar with methodologies which VI has developed within the energy sector.
Senior Advanced Data Scientist Odd Kolbjørnsen is a principal investigator at Aker BP and deputy member of the VI board. He is excited for the future collaboration between the company and the other consortium partners.
- Visual Intelligence is a really exciting research centre with several competent partners. The research field continues to grow in a rapid pace and it is great to be a part of a collaborative environment which helps us in staying updated, says Kolbjørnsen.
The company's interest in VI is to utilize new developments in artificial intelligence (AI) to improve and automate interpretations of data, while providing the centre with data, problem formulations, and different forms of guidance.
- Aker BP has a diverse set of data in 2D, 3D and 4D which can offer new and exciting challenges to our analyses. Our researchers also seek to supervise PhD students as a way of establishing a collaborative research environment.
As there is a limited amount of training data within the field, Aker BP is also interested in developing techniques which reduce this need, as well as methodologies which utilize context and dependencies to improve results.
- We believe such needs correspond well with research challenges addressed by Visual Intelligence, Kolbjørnsen adds.
Centre director Robert Jenssen welcomes Aker BP to the VI consortium and believes that the research centre is significantly strengthened by the addition of the company.
- Aker BP is a heavy industry partner, and we are glad that they have reached out to Visual Intelligence to find the competence they seek. With the company on board, our role as a leading AI centre will be further consolidated.
- I would like to thank my co-director Anne Solberg for her grand efforts in the process, and for her sustained communication with Aker BP on our behalf, Jenssen adds.
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In a Dagens Medisin op-ed, SPKI director Karl Øyvind Mikalsen, Kristine Bø, Bjorn Anton Graff and Kurt Vanvik discuss how interregional collaborations in Norway now contributes to the implementation of AI radiology solutions across the Norwegian health regions
Jenssen has established several important collaborations between Visual Intelligence and international research environments within artificial intelligence. He has now joined the scientific advisory committee at Europe's most prominent research centre within intelligent systems.
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Congratulations to Rwiddhi Chakraborty for successfully defending his PhD thesis and achieving the PhD degree in Science at UiT The Arctic University of Norway on December 13th 2024.
The graph community in Tromsø gathered on November 27th for the northernmost "Learning on Graph" Conference meetup.
Centre director Robert Jenssen recently gave a talk about the use and benefits of AI technologies during Pasientsikkerhetskonferansen 2024
Congratulations to Kristoffer Wickstrøm for receiving the Best Paper Award 2024 from the journal Pattern Recognition Letters!
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Professor Michael Kampffmeyer gave a presentation titled "Kunstig intelligens som forklarer hva den tenker" as part of a Norwegian Centre for E-Health Research Webinar (Norwegian dialogue).
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EUGLOH students from partner institutions under the EUGLOH alliance can now apply for an exclusive mobility scholarship for the NLDL 2025 Winter School which covers travel, accommodation, and sustenance for successful applicants.
Visual Intelligence researchers represented the centre during Inspirasjonsdagen 2024. The event aimed to stimulate high school students' interest and curiosity for STEM and healthcare-related study programmes at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Our summer students have worked on projects related to fatigue and stress recognition with machine learning as their first research experience. Their results were presented at Georg Sverdrups hus at University of Oslo on October 16th 2024.
PhD candidate Rwiddhi Chakraborty recently gave an invited research talk titled "Perspectives on Multimodal Reasoning" at the Pioneer Centre for AI at University of Copenhagen.
Visual Intelligence was represented at Frampeik 2024 by associate professor Elisabeth Wetzer. The event gathered student researchers at Verdensteatret in Tromsø for discussions around AI-related topics.
Registration for the Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference 2025 is now open. The general deadline for registration is January 1st 2025.
We happily welcome Jan Zavadil, who recently started as a doctoral research fellow at Visual Intelligence in Tromsø in September 2024.
Visual Intelligence researchers participated in various dissemination activities throughout Forskningsdagene 2024. The activities aimed to disseminate general knowledge about deep learning and Visual Intelligence's research activities to the general public.
93 people from across the Visual Intelligence (VI) consortium gathered at Quality Airport Hotel Gardermoen for Visual Intelligence Days 2024, 24th to 25th of September.
Congratulations to Ghadi Al Hajj for successfully defending his PhD thesis and achieving the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo on September 16th 2024!