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.
Centre Director Robert Jenssen met with Sigrun Aasland, Norwegian Minister of Research and Higher Education, alongside UiT and Aker Nscale representatives to give an update on Aker Nscale's AI Giga Factory in Narvik, Norway.
Zheming Xu is a PhD Research Fellow at Beijing Jiaotong University. She visited Visual Intelligence in Tromsø from September 2025 to January 2026.
Få kvinner søker seg til fag innenfor kunstig intelligens. Det kan skape blindsoner, mener ekspert (Norwegian news story in NRK.no).
Visual Intelligence was represented by Centre Director Robert Jenssen, Associate Professor Kristoffer Wickstrøm, and VI Alumna Sara Björk at the Arctic Frontiers side session "How can AI and satellite collaboration strengthen Arctic resilience?".
Petter Tømmeraas, Director of Data Center Services at Aker Nscale, visited SFI Visual Intelligence to learn more about our research projects and AI startups established by former UiT students.
We happily welcome Keyne Oei and Boye Sjo as new PhD Research Fellows at SFI Visual Intelligence in Tromsø and Oslo respectively.
Congratulations to Børge Solli Andreassen, who successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Oslo on December 18th 2025.
Attracting 280 international AI researchers, the Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference (NLDL) 2026 was successfully organized from January 5th to 9th 2026 at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, Norway.
Visual Intelligence hosted a special NLDL 2026 mentoring session for young researchers with Professor Mihaela van der Schaar – a globally renowned AI researcher and expert
Centre Director and NLDL General Chair Robert Jenssen was interviewed by NRK about this year's Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference.
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270 KI-eksperter fra nært og fjernt møtes ved UiT for å dele siste forskningsnytt. Et av formålene er å styrke internasjonale bånd og samarbeid på tvers av det globale KI-miljøet (Norwegian news article on uit.no)
Med ferske millioner på konto skal Senter for pasientnær kunstig intelligens (SPKI) ved UNN bidra i et stort nasjonalt KI-prosjekt de neste fire årene (News article on unn.no)
We happily welcome Zijun Sun as a new Doctoral Research Fellow at SFI Visual Intelligence in Tromsø, Norway.
The Visual Intelligence Management Team, Robert Jenssen, Line Eikvil, Anne Solberg, and Inger Solheim, wishes everyone a happy holiday season and new year!
Several of our researchers represented SFI Visual Intelligence at EurIPS 2025 – the NeurIPS-endorsed European AI conference.
Congratulations to Senior Research Scientist Anders Waldeland, who was awarded the Digital Trailblazer Award 2025 at the Dig X Subsurface conference in Oslo, Norway.
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence that can automatically measure the heart's structure – both quickly and accurately (Popular science article on sciencenorway.no)
Congratulations to Jørgen Agersborg, who successfully defended his PhD thesis at UiT The Arctic University of Norway on November 28th.
State Secretary Marianne Wilhelmsen visited UiT The Arctic University of Norway to learn more about SFI Visual Intelligence and UiT's AI initiatives in education and research.
KI-chatboten Grok har fortalt brukere at verdens rikeste mann er både smartere og sprekere enn noen andre i verden – inkludert basketballstjernen LeBron James og Leonardo da Vinci (Norwegian news article on tv2.no)