Philipp Werner
Dr.-Ing. Philipp Werner
Fachgebiet Neuro-Informationstechnik
Gebäude 09, Universitätsplatz 2,
G09-413
Recent Updates
- We achieved the second place in the EmotionNet 2020 challenge on facial action unit recognition in the wild (with a performance gap of only 0.05% to the challenge winner and of 5.9% to the third place)! See the paper and video.
- Two new papers in the German Journal "Der Schmerz" on multimodal recognition of pain intensity and pain modality and on the state of research and clinical perspectives
- Survey article on pain recognition published in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (see IEEEXplore / ResearchGate)
- New paper published in Sensors journal; four conference papers
- Paper about Fan-C face frontalization / Generalizing to Unseen Head Poses presented at FG 2019 (updated source code)
- Paper/video describing our new pain dataset, the X-ITE Pain Database
- Article "Effects of Video Encoding on Camera Based Heart Rate Estimation" published in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Research Focus
- Human behavior recognition
- Visual pain recognition, pain behavior
- Facial expression recognition, head pose estimation
- Body pose and gesture recognition
- Computer vision, pattern recognition, deep learning
Datasets and/or Source Code
- BioVid Heat Pain Database
- Fan-C face frontalization / Generalizing to Unseen Head Poses
- Landmark based Head Pose Estimation Benchmark and Method
- Real vs. fake emotion recognition source code (won ICCV 2017 ChaLearn Looking at People Real vs. Fake Emotion Challenge)
Projects
- Human Behavior Analysis (HuBA)
- Automatic Pain Recognition based on Facial Expression and Psychobiological Parameters
- Advancing Reliability and Specificity of Automatic Multimodal Recognition of Pain Intensity
- 3Dsenstation: GestFus (Human-Computer Interaction Based on Gestures and Facial Expression)
Links
Selected Publications
- Philipp Werner, Daniel Lopez-Martinez, Steffen Walter, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Sascha Gruss, Rosalid Picard
Automatic Recognition Methods Supporting Pain Assessment: A Survey (ResearchGate)
IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing, 2019, DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2019.2946774. Impact-Factor (2018): 6.288 - Philipp Werner, A. Al-Hamadi, K. Limbrecht-Ecklundt, S. Walter, H. C. Traue
Head movements and postures as pain behavior
PLOS ONE 13(2), 2018. Impact-Factor (2015): 3.057 - Philipp Werner, A. Al-Hamadi, K. Limbrecht-Ecklundt, S. Walter, S. Gruss, H. C. Traue
Automatic Pain Assessment with Facial Activity Descriptors
IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing 8(3), 2017. Impact-Factor (2016): 3.149 - Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Robert Niese
Comparative learning applied to intensity rating of facial expressions of pain
Int. J. Patt. Recogn. Artif. Intell., 2014. Impact-Factor (2015): 0.915 - Michal Rapczynski, Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Effects of Video Encoding on Camera Based Heart Rate Estimation
IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, March 2019, DOI 10.1109/TBME.2019.2904326. Impact-Factor (2018): 4.491 - 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, and Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Real vs. Fake Emotion Challenge: Learning to Rank Authenticity From Facial Activity Descriptors
International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW), 2017. Challenge winner! - Philipp Werner, Frerk Saxen, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Landmark based Head Pose Estimation Benchmark and Method
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2017. Acceptance rate: 45% - Philipp Werner, Frerk Saxen, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Handling Data Imbalance in Automatic Facial Action Intensity Estimation
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2015. Acceptance rate: 33% - Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Steffen Walter, Sascha Gruss, Harald C. Traue
Automatic Heart Rate Estimation from Painful Faces
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2014. Acceptance rate: 44% - Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Robert Niese, Steffen Walter, Sascha Gruss, Harald C. Traue
Towards Pain Monitoring: Facial Expression, Head Pose, a new Database, an Automatic System and Remaining Challenges
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2013. Acceptance rate: 30% - All publications...
Invited Talks
- Automatic Pain Assessment from Facial Activity, Pain Face Day, Fraunhofer IIS, Erlangen, 01/2017
- Automatisierte und dauerhafte Schmerzmessung, Fortbildungsveranstaltung (zertifiziert von Ärztekammer Sachsen Anhalt), Klinikum Magdeburg, 04/2017
- The role of facial image processing for pain recognition, 1st Interdisciplinary Meeting for the Study of Pain of the Federal University of Uberlândia, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, Brasil, 07/2013
Other Activities
- Winner of ICCV 2017 ChaLearn Looking at People Real vs. Fake Emotion Challenge. See fact sheet, paper, and source code.
- Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (Impact-Factor 2018: 6.288), Journal of Medical Internet Research (Impact Factor 2018: 4.945), IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (Impact-Factor 2018: 4.491), PLOS ONE journal (Impact-Factor 2015: 3.057), Sensors journal (Impact-Factor 2016: 2.677), and IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG).
Journals
- Marc-André Fiedler, Philipp Werner, Michal Rapczynski, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Deep face segmentation for improved heart and respiratory rate estimation from videos
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 2023. Impact Factor (2021): 3.662 - Ehsan Othman, Philipp Werner, Frerk Saxen, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Sascha Gruss, Steffen Walter
Classification networks for continuous automatic pain intensity monitoring in video using facial expression on the X-ITE Pain Database
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, March 2023. Impact Factor (2021): 2.887 - Ehsan Othman, Philipp Werner, Frerk Saxen, Marc-André Fiedler, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
An Automatic System for Continuous Pain Intensity Monitoring Based on Analyzing Data from Uni-, Bi-, and Multi-Modality
Sensors 22, no. 13: 4992, 2022. Impact Factor (2019): 3.275 - Marc-André Fiedler, Philipp Werner, Aly Khalifa, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
SFPD: Simultaneous Face and Person Detection in Real-Time for Human-Robot Interaction
Sensors 21, no. 17: 5918, 2021. Impact Factor (2019): 3.275 - Michal Rapczynski, Philipp Werner, Sebastian Handrich, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
A Baseline for Cross-Database 3D Human Pose Estimation
Sensors 21, no. 11: 3769, 2021. Impact Factor (2019): 3.275 - Ehsan Othman, Philipp Werner, Frerk Saxen, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Sascha Gruss, Steffen Walter
Automatic vs. Human Recognition of Pain Intensity from Facial Expression on the X-ITE Pain Database
Sensors 21, no. 9: 3273, 2021. Impact Factor (2019): 3.275 - Sebastian Handrich, Laslo Dinges, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Philipp Werner, Frerk Saxen and Zaher Al Aghbari
Simultaneous Prediction of Valence / Arousal and Emotion Categories and its Application in an HRC Scenario
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 2020. Impact Factor (2019): 4.594 - S. Frisch, Philipp Werner, A. Al-Hamadi, H. C. Traue, S. Gruss, S. Walter
Von der Fremdbeurteilung des Schmerzes zur automatisierten multimodalen Messung der Schmerzintensität - Narrativer Review zum Stand der Forschung und zur klinischen Perspektive
Der Schmerz, 2020. Impact Factor (2018): 1.267 - S. Walter, A. Al-Hamadi, S. Gruss, S. Frisch, H. C. Traue, Philipp Werner
Multimodale Erkennung von Schmerzintensität und -modalität mit maschinellen Lernverfahren
Der Schmerz, 2020. Impact Factor (2018): 1.267 - Philipp Werner, Daniel Lopez-Martinez, Steffen Walter, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Sascha Gruss, Rosalind Picard
Automatic Recognition Methods Supporting Pain Assessment: A Survey (ResearchGate)
IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing, 2019, DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2019.2946774. Impact Factor (2020): 10.506 - 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, June 2019. Impact Factor (2018): 3.031 - Michal Rapczynski, Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Effects of Video Encoding on Camera Based Heart Rate Estimation
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, March 2019. Impact Factor (2017): 4.288 - Sascha Gruss, Mattis Geiger, Philipp Werner, Oliver Wilhelm, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Steffen Walter
Multimodal Signals for Analyzing Pain Responses to Thermal and Electrical Stimuli
JoVE (146), 2019. Impact Factor (2017): 1.184 - Philipp Werner, A. Al-Hamadi, K. Limbrecht-Ecklundt, S. Walter, H. C. Traue
Head movements and postures as pain behavior
PLOS ONE 13(2), 2018. Impact Factor (2020): 3.240 - Philipp Werner, A. Al-Hamadi, K. Limbrecht-Ecklundt, S. Walter, S. Gruss, H. C. Traue
Automatic Pain Assessment with Facial Activity Descriptors
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 8(3), 2017. Impact Factor (2020): 10.506 - M. Kächele, M. Amirian, P. Thiam, Philipp Werner, S. Walter, G. Palm, F. Schwenker
Adaptive confidence learning for the personalization of pain intensity estimation systems
Evolving Systems, 2016. - K. Limbrecht-Ecklundt, Philipp Werner, H. C. Traue, A. Al-Hamadi, S. Walter
Mimische Aktivität differenzierter Schmerzintensitäten
Der Schmerz 30(3), 2016. Impact Factor (2015): 0.894 - Sascha Gruss, Roi Treister, Philipp Werner, H. C. Traue, S. Crawcour, A. O. Andrade, S. Walter
Pain Intensity Recognition Rates via Biopotential Feature Patterns with Support Vector Machines
PLoS ONE 10(10), 2015. Impact Factor (2015): 3.057 - S. Walter, S. Gruss, K. Limbrecht-Ecklundt, H. C. Traue, Philipp Werner, A. Al-Hamadi, A. O. Andrade, N. Diniz, G. M. da Silva
Automatic pain quantification using autonomic parameters
Psychology and Neuroscience, 11/2014. - Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Robert Niese
Comparative learning applied to intensity rating of facial expressions of pain
Int. J. Patt. Recogn. Artif. Intell., 2014. Impact Factor (2020): 1.373 - Michael Schulze, Philipp Werner, Georg Lukas, Jörg Kaiser
AFP - an Adaptive Fragmentation Protocol Supporting Large Datagram Transmissions
Journal of Communications, Vol 6, No 3, pp 240-248, 2011.
Conference Proceedings (International)
- Ehsan Othman, Philipp Werner, Frerk Saxen, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Steffen Walter
Regression Networks for Automatic Pain Intensity Recognition in Video using Facial Expression on the X-ITE Pain Database
International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV), 2021. - Nikul Pandya, Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Deep Facial Expression Recognition with Occlusion Regularization
International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), 2020. - 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. We almost won the EmotionNet 2020 challenge! Video - Sebastian Handrich, Laslo Dinges, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Philipp Werner, Zaher Al Aghbari
Simultaneous Prediction of Valence/Arousal and Emotions on AffectNet, Aff-Wild and AFEW-VA
International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry 4.0 (EDI40), 2020. - Frerk Saxen, Sebastian Handrich, Philipp Werner, Ehsan Othman, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Detecting Arbitrarily Rotated Faces for Face Analysis
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2019. - Ehsan Othman, Frerk Saxen, Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi and Steffen Walter
Cross-Database Evaluation of Pain Recognition from Facial Video
International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA), 2019. - Frerk Saxen, Philipp Werner, Sebastian Handrich, Ehsan Othman, Laslo Dinges and Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Face Attribute Detection with MobileNetV2 and NasNet-Mobile
International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA), 2019. - Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Sascha Gruss and Steffen Walter
Twofold-Multimodal Pain Recognition with the X-ITE Pain Database
International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW), 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% - Sebastian Handrich, Philipp Waxweiler, Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
3D Human Pose Estimation Using Stochastic Optimization in Real Time
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2018. - Michal Rapczynski, Philipp Werner, Frerk Saxen, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
How the Region of Interest Impacts Contact Free Heart Rate Estimation Algorithms
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2018. - Frerk Saxen, Philipp Werner, and Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Real vs. Fake Emotion Challenge: Learning to Rank Authenticity From Facial Activity Descriptors
International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW), 2017. Challenge winner! - Philipp Werner, Sebastian Handrich, and Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Facial Action Unit Intensity Estimation and Feature Relevance Visualization with Random Regression Forests
International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 2017. - Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, and Steffen Walter
Analysis of Facial Expressiveness During Experimentally Induced Heat Pain
International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW), 2017. - Philipp Werner, Frerk Saxen, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Landmark based Head Pose Estimation Benchmark and Method
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2017. Acceptance rate: 45% - Michal Rapczynski, Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Continuous Low Latency Heart Rate Estimation from Painful Faces in Real Time
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2016. - Lin Zhang, Steffen Walter, Xueyao Ma, Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Harald C. Traue, Sascha Gruss
BioVid Emo DB: A multimodal database for emotion analyses validated by subjective ratings
IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), 2016. - Philipp Werner, Frerk Saxen, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Handling Data Imbalance in Automatic Facial Action Intensity Estimation
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2015. Acceptance rate: 33% - Markus Kächele, Patrick Thiam, Mohammadreza Amirian, Philipp Werner, Steffen Walter, Friedhelm Schwenker, Guenther Palm
Multimodal data fusion for person-independent, continuous estimation of pain intensity
Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN), 2015. Acceptance rate: 43% - Diana Werner, Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Quantitative Analysis of Surface Reconstruction Accuracy Achievable with the TSDF Representation
International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS), 2015. - M. Kächele, Philipp Werner, A. Al-Hamadi, G. Palm, S. Walter, F. Schwenker
Bio-Visual Fusion for Person-Independent Recognition of Pain Intensity
Multiple Classifier Systems (MCS), 2015. - S. Walter, S. Gruss, H. C. Traue, Philipp Werner, A. Al-Hamadi, M. Kächele, F. Schwenker, A. Andrade, G. Moreira
Data fusion for automated pain recognition
International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), 2015. - Diana Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Philipp Werner
Truncated Signed Distance Function: Experiments on Voxel Size
International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR), 2014. - Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Steffen Walter, Sascha Gruss, Harald C. Traue
Automatic Heart Rate Estimation from Painful Faces
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2014. Acceptance rate: 44% - Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Robert Niese, Steffen Walter, Sascha Gruss, Harald C. Traue
Automatic Pain Recognition from Video and Biomedical Signals
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2014. - Robert Niese, Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Accurate, Fast and Robust Realtime Face Pose Estimation Using Kinect Camera
International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2013. - Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Robert Niese, Steffen Walter, Sascha Gruss, Harald C. Traue
Towards Pain Monitoring: Facial Expression, Head Pose, a new Database, an Automatic System and Remaining Challenges
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2013. Acceptance rate: 30% - Steffen Walter, Philipp Werner, Sascha Gruss, Harald C. Traue, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, et al.
The BioVid Heat Pain Database: Data for the Advancement and Systematic Validation of an Automated Pain Recognition System
International Conference on Cybernetics (CYBCONF), 2013. - Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Robert Niese
Pain Recognition and Intensity Rating Based on Comparative Learning
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2012. Acceptance rate: 39%
Workshop Proceedings (National)
- M. Rapczynski, F. Saxen, Philipp Werner, A. Al-Hamadi
Der Einfluss von Hautfarbensegmentierung auf die kontaktfreie Schätzung von Vitalparametern
Workshop Farbbildverarbeitung, 2016. - M. Rapczynski, Philipp Werner, A. Al-Hamadi
Kontaktfreie kamerabasierte Messung der Herzrate in Echtzeit
Proceedings of innteract conference: Bullinger, A.C. (editor). 3D SENSATION - transdisziplinäre Perspektiven. Verlag aw&I Wissenschaft und Praxis. Chemnitz, 2016. - Philipp Werner
Kommunikation mit harten Echtzeitanforderungen über die Middleware FAMOUSO
Kommunikation unter Echtzeitbedingungen - Workshop Echtzeit, 2012.
Others
- Philipp Werner
Echtzeitkommunikationskanäle für die FAMOUSO-Middleware
Diploma Thesis, University of Magdeburg, 2011. - Philipp Werner
Linux-Integration einer FPGA-Karte für Forschungszwecke
Bachelor Thesis / Student Research Project, University of Magdeburg, 2009.