Dr. Henning Hamer

Henning is an expert in computer vision and machine learning with a PhD from ETH Zürich. Extensive industry experience at Aumovio, Continental, AGT, DaimlerChrysler, and BOSCH.

Computer vision and machine learning
Mapping and localization
Large Language Models (LLMs) and cloud deployment
Leading large SAFE teams
Technology transfer and IP protection
AI roadmapping and strategy

Positions

2015 - now Director Image Processing

Continental Secure Data Germany GmbH in Munich, Germany.

2013 - 2016 Co-founder ColorYourPhoto GbR

coloryourphoto.de is a platform that allows creating custom paint-by-number templates from uploaded images.

AGT

2011 - 2015 Research Architect

AGT Group (R&D) GmbH in Darmstadt, Germany.

2007 - 2011 Research Assistant

Computer Vision Laboratory of the ETH Zurich.

2006 - 2007 Diploma Thesis

Work with a vision-based pedestrian recognition system at DaimlerChrysler-Research Center.

2003 Internship

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

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

Course: Media Informatics

Invited Talks

Enabling L3 + driving through the generation of crowd-sourced maps, IEEE IV'19: 3rd International Workshop on Connected, Cooperative, and Automated Driving, June 2019.
Continental's eHorizon and Road Database, 6th Workshop on Computer Vision for Road Scene Understanding and Autonomous Driving (CVRSUAD) @ ECCV'18, September 2018.
Automatisiertes Fahren und Fahrzeugvernetzung - der elektronische Horizont (PDF), Nokia-Lectures: "Mensch, Technik, Kommunikation" at University of Stuttgart, April 2017.

Publications

Patent Application: Method and device for increasing the accuracy of localization

Hamer H., Hamperl H., Karn H., Mattmueller K.

EP000003598163A1 DE102018212133A1 US020200025945A1 2020-01-22

Patent Application: System for generating confidence values in the back end

Hamer H., Karn H.

DE102018204500A1 WO002019180149A1 2019-09-26

Patent Application: Method and system for training and updating a classfier

Hamer H., Thiel R.

WO002019114991A1 2019-06-20

Patent Application: System and method for generating and updating a 3d cad model of traffic routes

Hamer H., Kristensen S., Koerner R.

DE102017201368A1 WO002018138157A1 2018-08-02

Patent Application: Method and device for generating digital map models

Hamer H.

DE102017210798A1 WO002019002043A1 EP000003645969A1 US020200141740A1 2018-06-20

Patent Application: System and method for generating digital road models from aerial or satellite images and vehicle data collected

Hamer H., Kristensen S.

DE102016220308A1 WO002018073260A1 2018-04-19

Patent Application: System and method for analyzing driving trajectories for a route section

Koerner R., Hamer H., Loy C., Kristensen S., Zydek B.

DE102016216335A1 WO002018041591A1 2018-03-01

Patent Application: Method and system for generating map information for emergency surfaces

Kristensen S., Hamer H., Grewe R.

DE102016212587A1 EP000003482160A1 WO002018010891A1 CN000109477725A 2018-01-18

Automatic Visual Analysis of Real-World Events Covered By Social Media Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Hamer H., Merentitis A., Frangiadakis N., and Sukhanov S.

PDF ©IEEE ICDMW'15, Nov. 2015

Patent Application: Online Background Model Extraction

Krauss S., Hirzel J., Abad P., Didier S., Hamer H., and Schlattmann M.

PDF WO2016062811 (A1), US2016117833 (A1)

Patent Application: Method and System for Object Detection With Multi-Scale Single Pass Sliding Window HOG Linear SVM Classifier

Abad P., Hirzel J., Krauss S., Didier S., Hamer H., and Schlattmann M.

PDF WO2016012593 (A1), US2016026898 (A1)

Patent Application: Automatic Spatial Calibration of Camera Network

Hamer H., Sawchuk A., Schlattmann M., and Heremans R.

PDF WO2016005433 (A1), US2016012589 (A1)

Patent Application: System and method for selecting sensors in surveillance applications

Frangiadakis N., Heremans R., and Hamer H.

PDF EPO, filing 2012

Patent Application: Image processing to derive movement characteristics for a plurality of queue objects

Schlattmann M., Hamer H., and Blanke U.

PDF EPO/WIPO, filing 2012

Automatic Texturing without Illumination Artifacts from In-Hand Scanning Data Flow

Larue F., Dellepiane M., Hamer H., and Scopigno R.

PDF MM4CH'11, 2011

Data-Driven Animation of Hand-Object Interactions

Hamer H., Gall J., Urtasun R., and Van Gool L.

An Object-Dependent Hand Pose Prior from Sparse Training Data

Hamer H., Gall J., Weise T., and Van Gool L.

Elastic Convolved ICP for the Registration of Deformable Objects

Sagawa R., Akasaka K., Yagi H., Hamer H., and Van Gool L.

Tracking A Hand Manipulating An Object

Hamer H., Schindler K., Koller-Meier E., and Van Gool L.

Determining Posterior Probabilities on the Basis of Cascaded Classifiers as used in Pedestrian Detection Systems

Schweiger R., Hamer H. and Lohlein O.

Projects

2014 niceshoesnow

Data-mining project to automatically find the latest and most popular images of clothing on social media. See e.g. niceshoesnow on Twitter.

2010 qapit!

Development of the internet platform qapit!. The purpose of the system is to ease the search of forums in the internet.

2004 Animal Race

Development of the network layer of the 3D jump-and-run game Animal Race during a student project at the University of Ulm.

2000 DotSpot

Development of the video analysis software DotSpot, in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten.