News from Visual Intelligence

Visual Intelligence and Lie-Størmer Center celebrates Women in Mathematics Day in Tromsø

May 7, 2024

Scientists from UiT and University of Bergen gathered to discuss gender imbalance and discrimination in academia, as well as initiatives which aim to ensure diversity and inclusion in research, academia and work life.

Successful PhD defense by Mathias K. Hauglid

April 29, 2024

We congratulate Mathias K. Hauglid for successfully defending his PhD dissertation and achieving the PhD degree in Law at UiT The Arctic University of Norway on April 26th 2024.

uit.no: Feirer Kvinner i matematikk-dagen på Verdensteatret

April 29, 2024

I år samler 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. Arrangementet er gratis og åpent for alle interesserte.

Meet Erik, our new senior engineer

April 25, 2024

Heggeli's primary work tasks involve managing, maintaining and optimizing the GPU cluster at UiT Machine Learning (ML) Group in Tromsø, while serving as an important advising resource for our UiT-based VI researchers.

Aker BP joins Visual Intelligence

April 22, 2024

The company's interest in Visual Intelligence is to utilize new developments in artificial intelligence (AI) to improve and automate interpretations of data, while providing the centre with data, problem formulations, and different forms of guidance.

Visual Intelligence represented at the 2024 180N Annual Conference in Trondheim

April 18, 2024

The presented research is part of a larger collaboration between researchers from UiT The Arctic University of Norway and the University Hospital of North Norway.

Visual Intelligence researchers featured in "Abels Tårn"

April 12, 2024

Visual Intelligence researchers from UiT Machine Learning Group and the University Hospital of North Norway (UNN) were recently featured in the "Abels Tårn" spin-off show "Den store serien om KI".

Pascal Fua visits Visual Intelligence in Tromsø

April 9, 2024

While visiting Tromsø, Fua held two talks on the topics of "Deep Uncertainty" and "Deep 3D Surface Meshes" for students and researchers at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

Visual Intelligence Annual Report 2023: Now Available

April 9, 2024

The report showcases Visual Intelligence's activities, results, staff and funding throughout the past year, serving as a detailed compilation of our researchers' efforts towards further development within the centre's four main innovation areas and solving our four research chall

digi.no: UiT-forskere peker på tre løsninger for mindre skjev KI

March 31, 2024

Kunstig intelligens treffer dårligere på kvinner enn menn. Skjevhet i dataene er hovedutfordringen, mener Suaiba Salahuddin, som peker på tre forbedringsmuligheter.

Invited talk at conference organized by the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries

March 25, 2024

Visual Intelligence Director Robert Jenssen recently gave an invited talk at the CatchID conference organized in Tromsø from 19th-20th March 2024 by the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries.

Visual Intelligence researcher invited to prestigious conference for Nobel Prize winners

March 22, 2024

The exclusive Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings gather 650 distinguished scientists and 30 Nobel Prize winners from across the world and places strict requirements in terms of academic and scientific quality. – A great honor, says associate professor Elisabeth Wetzer.

Addressed the uses and misuses of AI in invited talk

March 20, 2024

Director Robert Jenssen gave a talk on the uses and misuses of artificial intelligence for members of the seniors association at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The UiT seniors association consists of former academic and administrative employees at the university.

Norwegian Computing Center presented VI work at The Biennial Geophysical Seminar

March 19, 2024

Researcher Anders U. Waldeland from The Norwegian Computing Center gave a talk at The Biennial Geophysical Seminar in Kristiansand presenting work from Visual Intelligence on seismic structure search using a neural network trained with self-supervised learning.

Visual Intelligence visited by state secretary Tomas Norvoll

March 18, 2024

State secretary Tomas Norvoll visited Visual Intelligence and was given a tour at the PET center at The University Hospital of North Norway by centre director Robert Jenssen and associate professor Samuel Kuttner to learn more about research and innovation within PET and AI.

Collaborative paper with The Alan Turing Institute and the British Antarctic Survey accepted in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

March 18, 2024

We are thrilled to announce that the paper "Interrogating Sea Ice Predictability With Gradients", a collaborative paper between Visual Intelligence, The Alan Turing Institute and the British Antarctic Survey, has been accepted in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.

Successful PhD defense by Srishti Gautam

March 15, 2024

We congratulate Srishti Gautam for successfully defending her PhD thesis and achieving the PhD degree in Science at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

Highly successful Pitch Day at UiT

March 14, 2024

Thank you to all students and invited presenters who participated in the Pitch Day at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

High schoolers visited Visual Intelligence in Tromsø

March 13, 2024

We were happy to host a school class from Kongsbakken upper secondary school at UiT Norges arktiske universitet on March 13th.

Visual Intelligence meeting with state secretary from Ministry of Health and Care Services

March 12, 2024

Visual Intelligence director Robert Jenssen recently met with State Secretary Ellen Rønning-Arnesen of Ministry of Health and Care Services.