News from Visual Intelligence

PhD student Eirik Agnalt Østmo featured in Norwegian popular science podcast

June 24, 2024

In the episode, Østmo was included in an Abels tårn expert panel to answer different questions about AI and deep learning.

Successful course on generative AI at UiT, in collaboration with Visual Intelligence

June 21, 2024

Visual Intelligence organized a special curricular course on Generative AI at UiT The Arctic University of Norway this spring. The course covered Large Language Models, Generative AI for images, and Generative AI for audio.

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June 20, 2024

Our sponsorship packages provide a number of benefits, such as registration and networking benefits for company employees, company and brand visibility, and more.

NRK Radio: UiT and UNN develop AI to detect liver cancer

June 18, 2024

Associate professor and principal investigator Kristoffer Wickstrøm recently talked about a collaborative Visual Intelligence project between UiT and UNN on NRK Radio. The project aims to develop AI algorithms to detect liver cancer on CT images.

Successful PhD defense by Tollef Jahren

June 14, 2024

We congratulate Tollef Jahren for successfully defending his PhD thesis "Deep learning for detecting valvular events and suppressing reverberations in cardiac ultrasound" for the degree Philosophiae Doctor at Department of Informatics, University of Oslo.

Nettavisen: Over 100 norske kjendiser misbrukt på pornosider: – Vil bli mer og mer tilgjengelig

June 13, 2024

Noen få tastetrykk er alt som skal til for å finne falske nakenbilder og videoer av norske kjendiser. – Ekstremt bekymringsfullt, sier KI-ekspert

Daniel Johansen Trosten awarded the NAIS Dissertation Award of 2023

June 13, 2024

Visual Intelligence congratulates Daniel Johansen Trosten for receiving the Dissertation Award of 2023 from Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Society (NAIS)!

Nordlys: Vant nasjonal pris

June 12, 2024

I sin doktorgrad forsket Daniel Johansen Trosten på nye måter å trene kunstig intelligens på uten bruk av forhåndsmerkede data. Nå er avhandlingen hans blitt kåret til fjorårets beste norske doktorgradsavhandling innen feltet.

Visual Intelligence represented at Blått kompass 2024

June 7, 2024

Centre director Robert Jenssen represented Visual Intelligence at the marine conference Blått kompass.

Nordlys: Michael (33) vant prestisjetung pris

June 5, 2024

På en årskonferanse om kunstig intelligens (KI), i regi av Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium (NORA), vant professor Michael Kampffmeyer en av seks priser som «fremragende forsker»

Exchange stays and pizza on the menu at VIGS social event in Tromsø

June 4, 2024

The Visual Intelligence Graduate School (VIGS) recently gathered our Tromsø based researchers at Árdna - The Sami Cultural Center for a social event about exchange stays.

Professor Michael Kampffmeyer receives "Early career investigator" award at NORA Annual Awards

June 4, 2024

We congratulate professor Michael Kampffmeyer for receiving the "Early career investigator" award at the NORA Annual Awards!

NRK.no: Jenter søker seg ikke til matematikk: – Teknologien vi utvikler, blir utviklet på menns premisser

May 27, 2024

Til tross for gode karakterer, søker svært få jenter seg til studier innen matematikk, naturfag og teknologi. En studie viser at det kan handle om lav selvtillit.

NLDL 2025: Call for Papers and Abstracts

May 23, 2024

We invite submissions presenting new and original research on all aspects of Deep Learning for the Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference (NLDL) 2025.

Meet Filippo and Ronan, our new Visual Intelligence interns

May 16, 2024

I am eager to absorb knowledge from these experts and contribute to our collective understanding, says Filippo Bascetta, who is one of two new VI interns.

Norsk regnesentral podcast: «In the 90s, everybody knew that AI didn't work.» Hvorfor hadde Sergey Brin rett da han sa det?

May 15, 2024

Listen to VI co-director Line Eikvil and research director Anders Løland (Norsk Regnesentral) talk about developments before and after the breakthrough of deep learning in the NR podcast, Sannsynligvis VIKTIG (Norwegian dialogue).

Visual Intelligence builds bridges with Indian research communities

May 13, 2024

The delegation lasted from April 23rd to 27th and aimed to develop and strengthen existing and future collaborations between UiT and Indian universities and research institutions.

iTromsø: Markerte «Kvinner i matematikk-dagen» på Verdensteatret

May 12, 2024

I år samlet SFI Visual Intelligence, som ledes av Forskningsgruppen for maskinlæring ved UiT, og Lie Størmer senter kreftene for å markere dagen ved Verdensteateret i Tromsø den 6. mai.

Visual Intelligence well represented at ICLR 2024

May 11, 2024

Visual Intelligence was well represented at the conference, and presented some of the centre's latest research on representation learning by deep neural networks.

Three Visual Intelligence researchers promoted to professors

May 10, 2024

We congratulate Adín Ramírez Rivera (UiO), Michael Kampffmeyer (UiT) and Andrea Marinoni (UiT), who were recently promoted to professors at their respective universities.