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.
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.
By Petter Bjørklund, Communication Advisor at SFI Visual Intelligence
The Visual Intelligence Days is an annual gathering where VI researchers, user partners and invited guests convene to share knowledge and updates on the latest VI research and innovations.
The event consisted of two full days of tutorials, presentations and discussions on AI and deep learning, giving researchers across our research institutions the chance to collaborate and socialize with each other.
Before kickstarting the main event program, the Visual Intelligence Graduate School organized a pre-program event for early career researchers at Union371 Blindern, University of Oslo. 25 young researchers attended the pre-program event.
The event sought to connect young aspiring researchers across VI to strengthen research collaborations, share scientific experiences and get to know each other.
VIGS alumn Daniel Johansen Trosten held an invited talk at the pre-program, touching on the topic of representation learning, his experiences as a PhD student at VI and working at NORCE. Trosten also shared some useful research tips to the participants.
The pre-program event ended with a social program, consisting of a stacked tournament with darts, shuffleboard and a quiz.
This year's VIGS board consisted of Suaiba Amina Salahuddin (UiT), Magnus Størdal (UiT), Lars Uebbing (UiT), Solveig Thrun (UiT), Ingrid Utseth (NR), Vilde Schulerud Bøe (UiO) and Marius Aasan (UiT).
The main VI Days event featured a tutorial on diffusion models by professor Adín Ramírez Rivera (UiO), a user partner spotlight session on new VI work, results and infrastructure initiatives, an invited inspirational talk by Adrian Tofting and Odd Eirik Igland (VAKE), and a prospective outlook on trends within deep learning.
Further, the program included a collaborative work sessions centred around individual user partners. The session consisted of presentations and discussions to review the status of ongoing and planned research activities at the centre.
Several innovative solutions were presented by the VI user partner during the main VI Days event. Examples of presented methodologies included AI for mammography images, foundation models for oil spill detection, automatic classification of microfossils, uncertainty modelling in acoustic target detection, and detection of liver metastasis from CT images.
Professor Julia Schnabel of the Visual Intelligence Innovation Advisory Board gave attendees an overview of various applicational AI areas which her research group at Helmholtz Munich are involved in.
Such areas included advanced biomedical imaging, early disease detection and improved therapy, and disease interrelation and co-morbidity via Imaging.
Several participants got the opportunity to present their latest work through interactive poster presentations.
The organizers, participants, and invited speakers contributed a to successful and high-quality event, demonstrating the closely intertwined collaborations within the Visual Intelligence consortium.
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.
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!
Kommende søndag er det åpen dag på Nordnorsk vitensenter. Der lanseres vitensenteret siste nyvinning, en interaktiv utstilling basert på kunstig intelligens (KI).
Durgesh Kumar Singh is a PhD candidate at Visual Intelligence (VI) in Tromsø. He visited the University of Oslo and GE Vingmed Ultrasound from May to June 2024.
Maskinlæringsgruppen på UiT og SFI Visual Intelligence har arbeidet med å lage en utstilling som skal øke barns interesse, nysgjerrighet, og forståelse for kunstig intelligens. Nå vil den være utstillingsklar under et åpent familiearrangement på Nordnorsk vitensenter 22 september
Forskere har trent opp kunstig intelligens til å finne og kategorisere mikrofossiler. De tror arbeidet kan bli til stor nytte for geologer verden over (Norwegian news story at forskning.no).
Associate professor Kristoffer Wickstrøm represented Visual Intelligence at Nordnorsk ingeniørkonferanse 2024.
We happily welcome Christian Salomonsen, who recently started as a doctoral research fellow at Visual Intelligence in Tromsø.
I fremtiden kan leger og sykepleiere få hjelp av kunstig intelligens med å gjøre jobben sin. Men hvordan? En KI-forsker forklarer.
Associate professor and PI Elisabeth Wetzer participated in this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Vienna, Austria. The conference is one of the world's largest annual gatherings for Nobel Prize winners.
We happily welcome Preetraj Bhoodoo, who recently started as a doctoral research fellow at Visual Intelligence in Oslo.
Centre director Robert Jenssen was featured in an NRK Radio interview about the Arendalsuka event "Hvordan implementerer vi KI for bruk i helsesektoren på en trygg måte?"
Visual Intelligence was represented by director Robert Jenssen during the UiT event "Hvordan implementerer vi KI for bruk i helsesektoren på en trygg måte?". The event addressed how to safely implement artificial intelligence tools in the fields of health and medicine.
Director Robert Jenssen and postdoctoral research fellow Changkyu Choi represented Visual Intelligence at the Europe-Korea Conference on Science and Technology (EKC) 2024.
Jeff Clark is a Research Fellow in AI at University of Bristol and co-founder and CEO of IngeniumAI: a startup company in radiology AI from the University of Bath and Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Trust. He visited Visual Intelligence in Tromsø from June to July 2024.