From left to right in the image:
- First Opponent: Associate Professor Arno Solin, Aalto University, Finland
- The happy Dr. Marius Aasan
- Main Supervisor: Professor Adín Ramírez Rivera, University of Oslo, Norway
- Supervisor: Professor Anne H Schistad Solberg, University of Oslo, Norway
- Supervisor: Associate Professor Odd Kolbjørnsen, University of Oslo, Norway
- Second Opponent: Professor Kerstin Bach, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Committee manager: Professor Roy Hansen, University of Oslo and Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Norway
- Chair of Defence: Professor Andreas Austeng, University of Oslo, Norway
Marius first presented his trial lecture From Convolutions to Transformers: How Modern Vision Models See Images.
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Thereafter, he defended his PhD thesis From Continua to Objecthood: On Tokenization and Perceptual Grouping in Vision.
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The Department announcement about Marius' trial lecture and PhD defence on this big day: https://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/disputaser/2026/Aasan.html
