Frerk Saxen
M.Eng. Frerk Saxen
Fachgebiet Neuro-Informationstechnik
Gebäude 09, Universitätsplatz 2,
39106, Magdeburg,
G09-412
Research Focus
- Head Pose estimation
- Gaze detection
- Facial Action Unit detection
- Human Skin Segmentation
- Human Computer Interaction
- Computer Vision
- Pattern Recognition
Research Projects
- 3Dsensation - Ergonomics Assistance Systems for Contactless Human-Machine-Operation (Easy Cohmo).
Proposed Topics for Bachelor/Master Theses or Research Projects
- No Supervision currently
Publications
- Sebastian Handrich, Laslo Dinges, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Philipp Werner, Frerk Saxen, Zaher Al Aghbari. Simultaneous prediction of valence / arousal and emotion categories and its application in an HRC scenario. In: Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing volume 12, 2021. Impact-Factor (2019): 4.594
- Philipp Werner, Frerk Saxen, Ayoub Al-Hamadi. Facial Action Unit Recognition in the Wild with Multi-Task CNN Self-Training for the EmotioNet Challenge. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2020. Very close second place at the EmotionNet 2020 challenge! Video
- Frerk Saxen, Sebastian Handrich, Philipp Werner, Ehsan Othman, Ayoub Al-Hamadi. Detecting Arbitrarily Rotated Faces for Face Analysis. In: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2019.
- Ehsan Othman, Frerk Saxen, Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Steffen Walter. Cross-Database Evaluation of Pain Recognition from Facial Video. International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA), 2019.
- Philipp Werner, Frerk Saxen, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Hui Yu. Generalizing to Unseen Head Poses in Facial Expression Recognition and Action Unit Intensity Estimation. International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2019. Acceptance rate: 40%
- Frerk Saxen, Philipp Werner, Sebastian Handrich, Ehsan Othman, Laslo Dinges, Ayoub Al-Hamadi. Face Attribute Detection with MobileNetV2 and NasNet-Mobile. In: IEEE 11th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA), 2019.
- Ehsan Othman, Frerk Saxen, Dmitri Bershadskyy, Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Joachim Weimann. Predicting Group Contribution Behaviour in a Public Goods Game from Face-to-Face Communication. Sensors, 2019. Impact-Factor (2018): 3.031
- Michal Rapczynski, Philipp Werner, Frerk Saxen, Ayoub Al-Hamadi. How the Region of Interest Impacts Contact Free Heart Rate Estimation Algorithms. In: International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2018.
- Frerk Saxen, Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi. Real vs. Fake Emotion Challenge: Learning to Rank Authenticity From Facial Activity Descriptors. In: International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW), Venice, Italy, Oktober 2017. Challenge winner!
- Philipp Werner, Frerk Saxen, Ayoub Al-Hamadi. Landmark Based Head Pose Estimation Benchmark and Method. In: International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Beijing, China, September 2017.
- Michal Rapczynski, Frerk Saxen, Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi Der Einfluss von Hautfarbensegmentierung auf die kontaktfreie Schätzung von Vitalparametern. In: 22. Workshop Farbbildverarbeitung, Ilmenau, DE, September 2016. Best Paper Award
- Philipp Werner, Frerk Saxen, Ayoub Al-Hamadi. Handling Data Imbalance in Automatic Facial Action Intensity Estimation. In: British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Swansea, UK, 124.1-124.12. BMVA Press, September 2015. doi: 10.5244/C.29.124. Extended Abstract. Supplemental Material.
- Frerk Saxen, Ayoub Al-Hamadi. COLOR-BASED SKIN SEGMENTATION: AN EVALUATION OF THE STATE OF THE ART. In: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Paris, pp. 4467 - 4471, Okt. 2014, doi: 10.13140/2.1.2103.3927. Poster.
- Frerk Saxen, Ayoub Al-Hamadi. Superpixels for skin segmentation. In: Workshop Farbbildverarbeitung, pp. 153 - 159, Sep. 2014, vol. 20. doi: 10.13140/2.1.3293.3124.
- Frerk Saxen, Omer Rashid, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Simon Adler, Alexa Kernchen, Rüdiger Mecke. Image-Based Methods for Interaction with Head-Worn Worker-Assistance Systems. Journal of Intelligent Learning Systems and Applications, Aug. 2014, vol. 6, 141-152. doi: 10.4236/jilsa.2014.63011.
- Johannes Tümler, Alexa Kernchen, Rüdiger Mecke, Frerk Saxen, Ayoub Al-Hamdi, Anne Köpsel, Anke Huckauf. Companion-basiertes Assistenzsystem für die Mitarbeiterschulung in der Automobilindustrie. Fachtagung Digital Engineering, 2013.
- Michael Hahnle, Frerk Saxen, Matthias Hisung, Ulrich Brunsmann, Konrad Doll. FPGA-based Real-Time Pedestrian Detection on High-Resolution Images. In: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (Embedded Computer Vision), 2013. Best paper award.
- Frerk Saxen, Omer Rashid, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Simon Adler, Alexa Kernchen, Rüdiger Mecke. Image-based gesture recognition for user interaction with mobile companion-based assistance systems. In: 12th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA), pp. 957-960, 2012.
- Frerk Saxen, Konrad Doll, Ulrich Brunsmann. Support Vector Pruning with SortedVotes for Large-Scale Datasets. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems (ICIS), IEEE, pp 305-309, 2011.
- Frerk Saxen. Erkennung und Klassifikation von ungeschützten Verkehrsteilnehmern unter Einsatz von FPGAs. Master Thesis, University of Applied Sciences Aschaffenburg, 2011.