Profile
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Henning holds a PhD from the Computer Vision Laboratory of ETH Zurich in Switzerland. He is an expert in large-scale video analytics and machine learning with a special focus on visual object tracking, object/face recognition, and crowd-sourced mapping & localization.
Henning also has several years of industry experience working at Continental, AGT Group (R&D) GmbH, DaimlerChrysler, and BOSCH. He is adept in agile software development and in technology transfer, i.e. turning the results from cutting edge research into products. 
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Positions
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2015 - now: Director Image Processing at Continental Secure Data Germany GmbH in Munich, Germany. |
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2013-2016: Co-founder ColorYourPhoto GbR. coloryourphoto.de is a platform that allows creating custom paint-by-number templates from uploaded images. |
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2011 - 2015: Research Architect at AGT Group (R&D) GmbH in Darmstadt, Germany. |
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2007 - 2011: Research assistant at the Computer Vision Laboratory of the ETH Zurich. |
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2006-2007: Work with a vision-based pedestrian recognition system at DaimlerChrysler-Research Center in the scope of the diploma thesis. |
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2003: Internship at the company BOSCH Madrid, working with the automatic visual control of paste-on labels for airbag sensors. |
Education
2007 - 2011:
Doctoral studies
Computer Vision Laboratory, ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland
Thesis title: Capturing and Synthesizing Hand-Object Interaction (PDF)
2006-2007:
Diploma thesis
DaimlerChrysler-Research Center, Ulm, Germany
Diploma thesis title: Approximation of the Posterior Probability on the Basis of a Cascade Classifier for the Integration of Tracking into an Intelligent Pedestrian Searching Strategy (PDF - Introduction)
2001 - 2006:
University studies
University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Study course: Media Informatics
Invited Talks
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Enabling L3 + driving through the generation of crowd-sourced maps
, IEEE IV'19: 3rd International Workshop on Connected, Cooperative, and Automated Driving, June 2019.
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Continental's eHorizon and Road Database
, 6th Workshop on Computer Vision for Road Scene Understanding and Autonomous Driving (CVRSUAD) @ ECCV'18, September 2018.
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Automatisiertes Fahren und Fahrzeugvernetzung - der elektronische Horizont
(PDF),
Nokia-Lectures: "Mensch, Technik, Kommunikation" at University of Stuttgart, April 2017.
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Publications
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Hamer H.,Hamperl H., Karn H., Mattmueller K.,
Patent Application: Method and device for increasing the accuracy of localization ,
EP000003598163A1,
DE102018212133A1,
US020200025945A1,
2020-01-22
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Hamer H., Karn H.,
Patent Application: Sustem for generating confidence values in the back end ,
DE102018204500A1,
WO002019180149A1,
2019-09-26
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Hamer H., Thiel R.
Patent Application: Method and system for training and updating a classfier ,
WO002019114991A1,
2019-06-20
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Hamer H., Kristensen S., Koerner R.
Patent Application: System and method for generating and updating a 3d cad model of traffic routes ,
DE102017201368A1,
WO002018138157A1,
2018-08-02
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Hamer H.
Patent Application: Method and device for generating digital map models,
DE102017210798A1,
WO002019002043A1,
EP000003645969A1,
US020200141740A1,
2018-06-20
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Hamer H., Kristensen S.,
Patent Application: System and method for generating digital road models from aerial or satellite images and vehicle data collected ,
DE102016220308A1,
WO002018073260A1,
2018-04-19
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Koerner R., Hamer H., Loy C., Kristensen S., Zydek B.,
Patent Application: System and method for analyzing driving trajectories for a route section,
DE102016216335A1,
WO002018041591A1,
2018-03-01
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Kristensen S., Hamer H., Grewe R.,
Patent Application: Method and system for generating map information for emergency surfaces,
DE102016212587A1,
EP000003482160A1,
WO002018010891A1,
CN000109477725A,
2018-01-18
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Hamer H., Merentitis A., Frangiadakis N., and Sukhanov S.,
Automatic Visual Analysis of Real-World Events Covered By Social Media Using Convolutional Neural Networks
(PDF),
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW'15), Nov. 2015.
©IEEE
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Krauss S., Hirzel J., Abad P., Didier S., Hamer H., and Schlattmann M.,
Patent Application: Online Background Model Extraction,
(PDF),
WO2016062811 (A1), US2016117833 (A1).
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Abad P., Hirzel J., Krauss S., Didier S., Hamer H., and Schlattmann M.,
Patent Application: Method and System for Object Detection With Multi-Scale Single Pass Sliding Window HOG Linear SVM Classifier
(PDF),
WO2016012593 (A1), US2016026898 (A1).
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Hamer H., Sawchuk A., Schlattmann M., and Heremans R.,
Patent Application: Automatic Spatial Calibration of Camera Network
(PDF),
WO2016005433 (A1), US2016012589 (A1).
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Frangiadakis N., Heremans R., and Hamer H.,
Patent Application: System and method for selecting sensors in surveillance applications
(PDF),
European Patent Office (EPO), filing 2012.
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Schlattmann M., Hamer H., and Blanke U.,
Patent Application: Image processing to derive movement characteristics for a plurality of queue objects
(PDF),
European Patent Office (EPO)/ World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), filing 2012.
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Larue F., Dellepiane M., Hamer H., and Scopigno R.,
Automatic Texturing without Illumination Artifacts from In-Hand Scanning Data Flow
(PDF),
International Workshop on Multimedia for Cultural Heritage (MM4CH'11), 2011.
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Hamer H., Gall J., Urtasun R., and Van Gool L.,
Data-Driven Animation of Hand-Object Interactions (PDF,
Video with audio),
IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'11), 2011. ©IEEE
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Hamer H., Gall J., Weise T., and Van Gool L.,
An Object-Dependent Hand Pose Prior from Sparse Training Data (PDF,
Video),
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'10), 2010. ©IEEE
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Sagawa R., Akasaka K., Yagi H., Hamer H., and Van Gool L.,
Elastic Convolved ICP for the Registration of Deformable Objects ,
IEEE International Workshop on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM'09), 2009. ©IEEE
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Hamer H., Schindler K., Koller-Meier E., and Van Gool L.,
Tracking A Hand Manipulating An Object (PDF,
Video),
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'09), 2009. ©IEEE
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Schweiger R., Hamer H. and Lohlein O.,
Determining Posterior Probabilities on the Basis of Cascaded Classifiers as used in Pedestrian Detection Systems,
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV'07), 2007. ©IEEE
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Data
During the course of my PhD we created the Hand-Object Interaction (HOI) data-set 2010 which is publicly available. The data-set features 10 different objects and 9 different subjects. Both range and color information is available.
Projects
2014:
Data-mining project to automatically find the latest and most popular images of clothing on social media. See e.g. niceshoesnow on Twitter.
2010:
Development of the internet platform qapit!. The purpose of the system is to ease the search of forums in the internet.
2004:
Development of the network layer of the 3D jump-and-run game Animal Race during a student project at the University of Ulm.
2000:
Development of the video analysis software DotSpot, in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten
Personal Interests
Please visit my ultimate frisbee club ZUF. Other than playing frisbee, I enjoy sailing, climbing, and snowboarding/skiing.