Dr. Henning Hamer
ETH Zürich Computer Vision Laboratory
Office ETF D115
Sternwartstrasse 7
CH - 8092 Zürich
Switzerland
E-mail: hhamer@vision.ee.ethz.ch
Practical Experience
2007 - 2011:
Research assistant at the Computer Vision Laboratory of the ETH Zurich.
2010:
Development of the internet platform qapit!. The purpose of the system is to ease the search of forums in the internet.
2006-2007:
Work with a vision-based pedestrian recognition system at DaimlerChrysler-Research Center in the scope of the diploma thesis.
2004:
Development of the network layer of the 3D jump-and-run game Animal Race during a student project at the University of Ulm.
2003:
Internship at the company BOSCH Madrid, working with the automatic visual control of paste-on labels for airbag sensors.
2000:
Internship at the company NovaTrix (web design)
2000:
Development of the video analysis software DotSpot, in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten
Education
2007 - 2011:
Doctoral studies
Computer Vision Laboratory, ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland
Thesis title: Capturing and Synthesizing Hand-Object Interaction
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
2001 - 2006:
University studies
University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Study course: Media Informatics
1998 - 2000:
Secondary School
Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium, Ravensburg, Germany
Grade 12 + 13
University entrance diploma
1997 - 1998:
Exchange student
Prince George Secondary School, Prince Geroge, Canada
1990 - 1997:
Secondary School
Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium, Ravensburg, Germany
Grade 5 – 11
Publications
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 (MM4CH2011), 2011.
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
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
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 2009), 2009. ©IEEE
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
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'2007), 2007. ©IEEE
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.
Personal Interests
Please visit my ultimate frisbee club ZUF. Other than playing frisbee, I enjoy sailing, climbing, and snowboarding/skiing.