News from Visual Intelligence

New master program in artificial intelligence at UiT

March 30, 2021

The 5-year master's program accepts its first students Fall 2021. The program will provides a broad and solid foundation for working with artificial intelligence through classes in informatics, mathematics, statistics and specialized subjects on artificial intelligence.

Visual Intelligence's health research on the agenda

March 23, 2021

Director Robert Jenssen gave an overview of the priorities and activities of Visual Intelligence for health research for the Board of the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority (Helse Nord). Helse Nord is governed by the Ministry of Health and Care Services.

Paper accepted at CVPR 2021

March 19, 2021

We are proud to announce that the paper “Reconsidering Representation Alignment for Multi-view Clustering” by Daniel J. Trosten, Sigurd Løkse, Robert Jenssen and Michael Kampffmeyer was recently accepted at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2021!

Presentation of VI health research at NSG

March 17, 2021

Director Robert Jenssen gave an overview of the health research activities and priorities within the centre in a talk to the Norwegian coordination group for the specialist health care services (Nasjonal samarbeidsgruppe for helseforskning i spesialisthelsetjen - NSG).

Keynote talk at Nordic health technology conference

March 16, 2021

Visual Intelligence Director Robert Jenssen gave a keynote talk at the Nordic Conference on Patient-oriented Products, March 16th 2021. The talk was entitled "Machine learning for risk analysis and personalized medicine using data from electronic health records and PET imaging".

Keynote talk at deep learning conference

March 15, 2021

Visual Intelligence Director Robert Jenssen gave the opening keynote talk at the Swedish Symposia on Deep Learning and Image Analysis, organized online 15th March 2021. The talk was entitled "Industrial and basic deep learning research for computer vision with limited labels".

Stream VI-seminars online

February 4, 2021

Some of the recent talks from Visual Intelligence is now available for streaming on youtube. Recently we made available the opening lectures, VI seminars, and our workshop on limited training data. We continuously post our recorded webinars on the channel, so check it out.

Reaching out to the next generation of doctors

February 3, 2021

Visual Intelligence Director Robert Jenssen gave a talk about AI in future medicine and health for the Norwegian Medical Students Association at “Verdensteateret” in Tromsø. The talk outlined the role of SFI Visual Intelligence as a research centre and dominant actor within ...

UNN en av partnerne i nytt UiT-senter

February 3, 2021

14. januar åpnet det nye Senteret for forskningsdrevet innovasjon (SFI) ved UiT, Visual Intelligence. Senteret har som hovedformål å forske på kunstig intelligens. UNN er med som en av partnerne i samarbeidet.

NLDL 2021 is complete

January 21, 2021

Northern Lights Deep Learning Workshop 2021 is over and we are very happy with how it turned out! We want to thank all the contributors and the researchers from around the world that presented their work. We look forward to host NLDL also in 2022, but then physically in Tromsø!

Opening of the new SFI at UiT: Visual Intelligence

January 18, 2021

uit.no writes about the opening of Visual Intelligence.

Visual Intelligence opening from iTromsø.no

January 18, 2021

The local newspaper iTromsø.no covers the official opening of Visual Intelligence January 14th 2021.

Visual Intelligence is officially opened!

January 14, 2021

The official opening of SFI Visual Intelligence was successfully arranged as a digital event today. We are now ready to commence our research and innovation to tackle some of the large challenges in deep learning and AI, along with our partners.

Updated program for the Official opening of SFI Visual Intelligence!

January 11, 2021

We have now published the updated program for the official opening of our research center January 14, 2021. Please check out the event to see the program and get the streaming link.

Norway Health Tech webinar - Artificial intelligence in the Norwegian health services

January 4, 2021

The Norwegian health services have a great potential when it comes to development and utilization of artificial intelligence and digital health technologies. Visual Intelligence is an important contributor within research and development and present our strategy at the webinar.

New podcast series from Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium (NORA)

January 4, 2021

Centre leader of Visual Intelligence Robert Jenssen guested the new podcast from NORA. The podcast is hosed by Klas Pettersen, CEO of NORA, and Morten Goodwin, Professor of University of Agder. The podcast aims at discussing artificial intelligence in depth.

Updated program for the Visual Intelligence kickoff

December 20, 2020

We have released the program for the Visual Intelligence kickoff, January 15 2021. Please see the event program for more information.

Give feedback on the new Visual Intelligence website!

December 14, 2020

The website of Visual Intelligence is getting ready for launch. It is still under development, so if you have any feedback, find any bugs or poor formulations, please do not hesitate to contact us using our contact form.

A new Centre for Research-based Innovation

December 9, 2020

Visual Intelligence will be one of the new SFIs funded by the Research Council of Norway. The center will run over a period of eight years and will form a collaboration between businesses and research institutions in Norway.

Northern Lights Deep Learning Workshop 2021

December 7, 2020

NLDL 2021 will be a digital conference hosted by the UiT Machine Learning Group and Visual Intelligence January 18-20. The program includes a Mini Deep Learning School the 18th and is followed by a tight program the rest of the week.