UiO students Frida Marie Engøy Westby (2nd from left) and Guri Marie Svenberg during a poster session alongside supervisor and associate professor Ali Ramezani-Kebrya. The pictured poster includes findings from UiO student Karen Stølan Nielsen’s summer project on stress recognition with machine learning.
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.
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.
By Petter Bjørklund, Communication Advisor at SFI Visual Intelligence
- Stress is a reaction where your brain releases certain hormones in your body. This can lead to health problems both psychologically and physiologically, says student Karen Stølan Nielsen.
She is one of 50 UiO students who received funding from UiO:Life Science to conduct summer research projects between April and September 2024. She has developed AI models to characterize different aspects related to stress.
- In this project, we trained models to define what stress is, to assess different types of stress, and categorize different intensities of stress, Nielsen explains.
The aim of the projects was for students to perform research addressing health and disease, environmental issues or other topics related life science.
In addition to Nielsen, UiO student Guri Marie Svenberg developed AI algorithms for recognizing fatigue as part of a separate summer project.
- This was done by using EEG data that is shown to be sensitive to the fluctuations in vigilance that occur after sustained mental work, Svenberg explains.
Both Nielsen and Svenberg were supervised by associate professor Ali Ramezani-Kebrya (UiO). Their research was presented at Georg Sverdrups hus at University of Oslo on October 16th.
Ramenzani-Kebrya describes the significance of their work.
- Guri and Karen did a fantastic job in only two months with their first-ever research projects. Their results are very promising for follow-up research in the domain of emotion recognition with machine learning, says Ramezani-Kebrya.
- The research is useful for mission critical sectors such as hospitals, airlines, and infrastructure facilities to automatically identify critical events of employees’ fatigue and stress, he adds.
Registration for the Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference 2026 is officially open. Early bird fees are available before December 1st 2025.
Det skal eksperter på kunstig intelligens, cybersikkerhet og juss fra UiT Norges arktiske universitet diskutere på Verdensteatret Kino den 17. september. Arrangementet er gratis og åpen for alle (Norwegian news article at uit.no)
The presentations from the Visual Intelligence Workshop on Foundation Models are now available on the Visual Intelligence YouTube channel.
Congratulations to Nikita Shvetsov for successfully defending his PhD thesis and achieving the PhD degree in Science at UiT The Arctic University of Norway on August 27th 2025.
Det sa digitaliseringsminister Karianne Tung (Ap) da hun besøkte UiT Norges arktiske universitet i Tromsø for å lære mer om utdanning og toppforskning på kunstig intelligens ved universitetet (Norwegian news article at uit.no)
A new study shows how deep learning can achieve human-level performance in estimating uncertainty when classifying foraminifera (News story at EurekAlert.org)
Congratulations to Iver Martinsen and Durgesh Kumar Singh, who successfully defended their PhD theses at UiT The Arctic University of Norway on August 20th and 21st respectively.
Visual Intelligence brought together academia, industry, the institute sector, the Research Council of Norway, and Norwegian politics to discuss why and how Norwegian academia and industry should collaborate more closely to develop innovative artificial intelligence.
João Campagnolo is a PhD Candidate in the Neuroscience Department of the University of Copenhagen (KU). He visited SFI Visual Intelligence in Tromsø from April to May 2025.
Students from EUGLOH partner institutions can now apply for an exclusive mobility scholarship worth 2 900 EUR for the NLDL 2026 Winter School. Application deadline October 3rd 2025
Visual Intelligence will be well represented at MICCAI 2025—one of the leading AI conferences on medical imaging and computer assisted intervention—with three recently accepted research papers.
More than 50 attendees from the Norwegian AI research community gathered in Tromsø, Norway for two days of insightful presentations, interactive technical sessions, and scientific and social interactions.
Last week, we wished Aasland—accompanied by Political Advisor Munir Jaber and Senior Adviser Finn-Hugo Markussen—welcome to the Norwegian Computing Center (NR). One of the visit's goals was to showcase ongoing Visual Intelligence projects at NR.
Alba Ordoñez and Anders U. Waldeland presented ongoing work on seismic foundation models and an interactive seismic interpretation engine at EAGE Annual 2025 in Toulouse, France.
Østmo was invited to Abels tårn—one of the largest popular science radio shows in Norway—to answer listener-submitted questions related to artificial Intelligence (AI). The live show took place at Blårock Cafe in Tromsø, Norway on June 12th.
VI industry partner Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) received an Industrial PhD grant from the Research Council of Norway. The project will be closely connected to Visual Intelligence's "Earth observation" innovation area.
Visual Intelligence Researchers Amund Vedal and Arnt Børre Salberg recently presented ongoing Visual Intelligence research at a plankton-themed workshop organized by the Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway
We happily welcome Dennis Adamek, who recently started as a Doctoral Research Fellow at Visual Intelligence in Tromsø in April 2025.
Congratulations to Professor Lars Ailo for receiving the NORA Award for Diversity in AI at the NORA Annual Conference in Halden, Norway.
Teresa Dorszewski is a PhD Candidate at the Section for Cognitive Systems at the Technical University of Denmark. She visited Visual Intelligence in Tromsø from January to April 2025.