News from Visual Intelligence

New innovation project funded on deep learning-based AI for quantitative PET imaging

September 15, 2022

Developing deep learning-based AI for quantitative PET imaging. Groups joining forces and a new innovation project.

Best paper award to Visual Intelligence trio at the CVCS 2022 conference

September 14, 2022

Suaiba Salahuddin, Stine Hansen, and Sristhi Gautam won the best paper award at the 11th Color and Visual Computing Symposium, Sept. 8-9, 2022!

Great success for Visual Intelligence at Arendalsuka

August 18, 2022

It was absolutely packed with people when Visual Intelligence, NORA, and CAIR/UIA invited a strong panel to debate the future of healthcare with AI at Arendalsuka 2022!

Visual Intelligence guest researcher Ane Blazquez Garcia defends her PhD

July 30, 2022

Ane Blazquez Garcia, University of the Basque Country and the Ikerlan research institute, visited Visual Intelligence in the fall of 2021. Partially based on work conducted during this visit, she successfully defended her PhD thesis on July 27th 2022. Congratulations!

Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference 2023

July 7, 2022

Updated program and call for papers for the Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference is now available.

Professor Jose Principe from the University of Florida visited Visual Intelligence

July 4, 2022

Visual Intelligence had the great pleasure of hosting professor Jose Principe from the University of Florida for a 3-day visit in Tromsø June 29 - July 1, 2022.

Visual Intelligence workshop carved out opportunities for leveraging multiple sources of health data

July 1, 2022

The workshop brought together partners from the Cancer Registry and the University Hospital of North Norway, as well as researchers from the wider consortium.

Srishti Gautam receives best poster award

June 17, 2022

Srishti Gautam, PhD student in Visual Intelligence, at UiT received the Best Poster award at the NORA annual conference 2022

Visual Intelligence keynote at the 2022 Norwegian AI Society Conference

June 9, 2022

Director Robert Jenssen gave the keynote "Visual Intelligence advances deep learning research towards innovations" at the 2022 Norwegian AI Society Conference (NAIS) in Oslo.

Invited tutorial at the Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Symposium by Kristoffer Wickstrøm

June 2, 2022

PhD candidate at UiT Kristoffer Wickstrøm gives invited tutorial at the 2022 Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Society (NAIS) Conference in Oslo.

Joint Doctoral Course between UiO and UiT

May 27, 2022

Self Supervised Explainability on Graphs

Visit by technology and science school class

May 27, 2022

Visual Intelligence had the great pleasure of hosting a school class from Kongsbakken VGS in Tromsø on April 20th 2022.

Annual Report 2021

May 6, 2022

The Visual Intelligence annual report for 2021 is now published.

Pitch-day for ideas for master’s projects for the computer science and machine learning students at UiT

April 19, 2022

We invited companies, the public sector, and other organizations to present their ideas for master’s projects and to connect with students having an interest and background in computer science and machine learning.

Talk about Ethics in AI at the Aim North 2022 conference

April 6, 2022

Director Robert Jenssen gave a talk about explainable AI connected to the overarching theme of the Aim North conference, namely Ethics in AI. The talk outlined e.g. VI's recent results on detecting artifacts in medical images by our "Prototypical Relevance Propagation" method.

Talk by VI's Director Robert Jenssen at the opening of the Pioneer AI Centre

March 29, 2022

The Pioneer AI Centre is Denmark's flagship centre on AI, headed by prof. Serge Belongie, University of Copenhagen/KU. The official opening of the centre took place March 28 2022 at the "Black Diamond" in Copenhagen city centre.

Transforming ocean surveying by the power of DL and statistical methods

March 28, 2022

New project associated with Visual Intelligence on reduce bottlenecks related to uncertainty estimates in classification by a combined statistical and machine learning approach. The project is on recognition of specific objects at and within the seabed from several image types.

Visual Intelligence is a central partner in NORA research school - a new national PhD School

March 25, 2022

The Visual Intelligence Graduate School (VIGS) will be an important component in the NORA research school and Visual Intelligence's Northern Lights Deep Learning (NLDL) conference will be a venue for winter school activities within this nation-wide initiative.

New Visual Intelligence associated project

March 22, 2022

Visual Intelligence is happy to be a partner in a newly funded Horizon Europe project on AI-supported picture analysis within healthcare!

SFI Visual Intelligence guest talk by Cristina Soguero-Ruiz

March 22, 2022

Associate Professor Cristina Soguero-Ruiz visited Tromsø and gave a very interesting talk on March 17th 2022 on how to exploit AI and machine learning for medical image analysis and healthcare applications.