Computer Vision News - February 2023

20 Deep Learning Conference The Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference (NLDL) is an annual event organized by UiT and the Visual Intelligence research center dedicated to any topic related to deep learning. It began as a workshop in 2018, when there were some small local imageconferences inScandinavia but there was no forum dedicated to deep learning methodology. “ When we first organized the workshop, we already had some relatively big projects running here in our group, including industry and public sector collaboration, ” Robert, NLDL’s General Co-Chair alongside Michael, tells us. “ If anyone was going to organize a workshop in Norway on neural networks and deep learning, we felt it should be us. ” The workshop started small, with only 30- 40 participants, but over the years, the team discovered that more and more wanted to attend, so they announced it more broadly. “ We were quite deliberate in inviting Robert Jenssen is a Professor in the Machine Learning Group at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and the Director of Visual Intelligence, a research center with 11 Norwegian partners led by UiT. Michael Kampffmeyer is an Associate Professor, Head of the UiT Machine Learning Group, and a PI at Visual Intelligence. Stine Hansen, a researcher, and Srishti Gautam, a PhD student, are part of the UiT group and VI. All four are organizers of the Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference, which just took place in Norway, and are here to tell us more about it. NLDL - NORTHERN LIGHTS DE