Hugo Hammer
Adjunct Chief Research Scientist
- Department
- Holistic Systems
- Organisation
- Simula Metropolitan

- hugo@simula.no
Publications
2023
Journal Articles
H. L. Hammer, M. Riegler and H. Tjelmeland
Approximate Bayesian Inference Based on Expected Evaluation
Bayesian Analysis
Proceedings, refereed
A. Storås, F. Fineide, H. L. Hammer, A. Khan, M. Magnø, C. Xiangjung, P. Halvorsen, T. Utheim and M. Riegler
Using explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) to explore factors affecting meibomian gland (MG) dropout
ARVO Annual Meeting
A. Sharma, M. Stensen, E. Delbarre, M. Siddiqui, T. Haugen, M. Riegler and H. L. Hammer
Detecting human embryo cleavage stages using YOLO v5 object detection algorithm
Nordic Artificial Intelligence Research and Development
A. Storås, F. Fineide, H. L. Hammer, A. Khan, M. Magnø, C. Xiangjung, P. Halvorsen, T. Utheim and M. Riegler
Using explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) to explore factors affecting meibomian gland (MG) dropout
ARVO Annual Meeting
F. Fineide, A. Storås, M. Magnø, H. L. Hammer, X. Chen, A. Khan, P. Halvorsen, T. Utheim and M. Riegler
Predicting the degree of meibomian gland dropout with artificial intelligence
ARVO Annual Meeting
2022
Journal Articles
A. Storås, I. Strümke, M. Riegler, J. Grauslund, H. L. Hammer, A. Yazidi, P. Halvorsen, K. G. Gundersen, T. P. Utheim and C. J. Jackson
Artificial intelligence in dry eye disease
The Ocular Surface
S. S. Eide, M. Riegler, H. L. Hammer and J. B. Bremnes
Deep Tower Networks for Efficient Temperature Forecasting from Multiple Data Sources
Sensors
H. L. Hammer, A. Yazidi, M. Riegler and H. Rue
Efficient quantile tracking using an oracle
Applied Intelligence
V. Thambawita, P. Salehi, S. A. Sheshkal, S. Hicks, H. L. Hammer, S. Parasa, T. de Lange, P. Halvorsen and M. Riegler
SinGAN-Seg: Synthetic training data generation for medical image segmentation
PLOS ONE
A. Storås, R. Prabhu, H. L. Hammer and I. Strümke
Bias og kvantitativ analyse innen velferd
Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning
M. Boeker, M. Riegler, H. L. Hammer, P. Jakobsen and P. Halvorsen
Prediction of Schizophrenia from Activity Data using Hidden Markov Model Parameters
Neural Computing and Applications
V. Thambawita, S. Hicks, A. Storås, O. Witczak, J. M. Andersen, H. L. Hammer, P. Halvorsen, M. Riegler and H. B. Trine
Real-time deep learning based multi object tracking of spermatozoa in fresh samples
Human Reproduction
S. Hicks, V. Thambawita, A. Storås, T. B. Haugen, H. L. Hammer, P. Halvorsen, M. Riegler and M. H. Stensen
Automatic Tracking of the ICSI procedure using Deep Learning
Human Reproduction
A. Sharma, R. Kakulavarapu, V. Thambawita, M. Siddiqui, E. Delbarre, M. Riegler, H. L. Hammer and M. Stensen
Automating tracking of cell division for human embryo development in time lapse videos
Human Reproduction
H. L. Hammer, A. Yazidi and H. Rue
Estimating tukey depth using incremental quantile estimators
Pattern Recognition
Proceedings, refereed
A. Storås, M. Riegler, T. B. Haugen, V. Thambawita, S. Hicks, H. L. Hammer, R. Kakulavarapu, P. Halvorsen and M. Stensen
Automatic Unsupervised Clustering of Videos of the Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) Procedure
NAIS: Symposium of the Norwegian AI Society
A. Sharma, R. Kakulavarapu, V. Thambawita, M. Siddiqui, E. Delbarre, M. Riegler, H. L. Hammer and M. Stensen
Automating tracking of cell division for human embryo development in time lapse videos
Human Reproduction
A. Sharma, M. H. Stensen, E. Delbarre, T. B. Haugen and H. L. Hammer
Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Human Embryo Cell Cleavage Stages Analysis
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Intelligent Cross-Data Analysis and Retrieval
2021
Books
M. Boeker, M. Riegler, H. L. Hammer, P. Halvorsen, O. B. Fasmer and P. Jakobsen
Diagnosing Schizophrenia from Activity Records using Hidden Markov Model Parameters
2021 IEEE 34th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS)2021 IEEE 34th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS)
Journal Articles
A. A. Mofrad, A. Yazidi, S. A. Mofrad, H. L. Hammer and E. Arntzen
Enhanced Equivalence Projective Simulation: A Framework for Modeling Formation of Stimulus Equivalence Classes
Neural Computation
V. Thambawita, J. L. Isaksen, S. Hicks, J. Ghouse, G. Ahlberg, A. Linneberg, N. Grarup, C. Ellervik, M. S. Olesen, T. Hansen, C. Graff, N. Holstein-Rathlou, I. Strümke, H. L. Hammer, M. Maleckar, P. Halvorsen, M. Riegler and J. K. Kanters
DeepFake electrocardiograms: the key for open science for artificial intelligence in medicine
Scientific Reports
M. Riegler, M. H. Stensen, O. Witczak, J. M. Andersen, S. Hicks, H. L. Hammer, E. Delbarre, P. Halvorsen, A. Yazidi, N. Holst and T. B. Haugen
Artificial intelligence in the fertility clinic: status, pitfalls and possibilities
Human Reproduction
V. Thambawita, J. L. Isaksen, S. Hicks, J. Ghouse, G. Ahlberg, A. Linneberg, N. Grarup, C. Ellervik, M. S. Olesen, T. Hansen, C. Graff, N. Holstein-Rathlou, I. Strümke, H. L. Hammer, M. Maleckar, P. Halvorsen, M. Riegler and J. K. Kanters
DeepFake electrocardiograms using generative adversarial networks are the beginning of the end for privacy issues in medicine
Nature Scientific Reports
H. Svennevik, M. Riegler, S. Hicks, T. Storelvmo and H. L. Hammer
Prediction of Cloud Fractional Cover Using Machine Learning
Big Data and Cognitive Computing
A. Sharma, T. Haugen, H. L. Hammer, M. Riegler and M. Stensen
Towards better explainable deep learning models for embryo selection in ART
Human Reproduction
P. H. Smedsrud, V. Thambawita, S. Hicks, H. Gjestang, O. O. Nedrejord, E. Næss, H. Borgli, D. Jha, T. J. D. Berstad, S. L. Eskeland, M. Lux, H. Espeland, A. Petlund, D. T. D. Nguyen, E. Garcia-Ceja, D. Johansen, P. T. Schmidt, E. Toth, H. L. Hammer, T. de Lange, M. Riegler and P. Halvorsen
Kvasir-Capsule, a video capsule endoscopy dataset
Scientific Data
A. Kolevatova, M. Riegler, F. Cherubini, X. Hu and H. L. Hammer
Unraveling the Impact of Land Cover Changes on Climate using Machine Learning and Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Big Data and Cognitive Computing
H. L. Hammer, A. Yazidi and H. Rue
Joint tracking of multiple quantiles through conditional quantiles
Information Sciences
Proceedings, refereed
E. Garcia-Ceja, V. Thambawita, S. Hicks, D. Jha, P. Jakobsen, H. L. Hammer, P. Halvorsen and M. Riegler
HTAD: A Home-Tasks Activities Dataset with Wrist-accelerometer and Audio Features
27th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling
S. Hicks, D. Jha, V. Thambawita, H. L. Hammer, T. de Lange, S. Parasa, M. Riegler and P. Halvorsen
Medico Multimedia Task at MediaEval 2021: Transparency in Medical Image Segmentation
Mediaeval Medico 2021
S. Hicks, A. Stautland, O. B. Fasmer, W. Frøland, H. L. Hammer, P. Halvorsen, K. Mjeldheim, K. J. Oedegaard, B. Osnes, V. E. G. Syrstad, M. Riegler and P. Jakobsen
HYPERAKTIV: An Activity Dataset from Patients with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Proceedings of the 12th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys '21)
S. S. Eide, M. Riegler, H. L. Hammer and J. B. Bremnes
Temperature Forecasting using Tower Networks
Proceedings of the 2021 Workshop on Intelligent Cross-Data Analysis and Retrieval
V. Thambawita, T. B. Haugen, M. Stensen, O. Witczak, H. L. Hammer, P. Halvorsen and M. Riegler
Identification of spermatozoa by unsupervised learning from video data
37th Virtual Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE)
V. Thambawita, S. Hicks, J. Isaksen, M. H. Stensen, T. B. Haugen, J. Kanters, S. Parasa, T. de Lange, H. D. Johansen, D. Johansen, H. L. Hammer, P. Halvorsen and M. Riegler
DeepSynthBody: the beginning of the end for data deficiency in medicine
The International Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence (ICAPAI)
2020
Journal Articles
M. Kongshavn, H. Haugerud, A. Yazidi, T. Maseng and H. L. Hammer
Mitigating DDoS using weight-based geographical clustering
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
A. A. Mofrad, A. Yazidi, H. L. Hammer and E. Arntzen
Equivalence Projective Simulation as a Framework for Modeling Formation of Stimulus Equivalence Classes
Neural Computation
A. Yazidi, H. L. Hammer, K. Samouylov and E. Herrera-Viedma
Game-Theoretic Learning for Sensor Reliability Evaluation Without Knowledge of the Ground Truth
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
A. Yazidi, M. A. Pinto-Orellana, H. L. Hammer, P. Mirtaheri and E. Herrera-Viedma
Solving Sensor Identification Problem Without Knowledge of the Ground Truth Using Replicator Dynamics
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
M. A. Pinto-Orellana and H. L. Hammer
Dyadic Aggregated Autoregressive Model (DASAR) for Automatic Modulation Classification
IEEE Access
A. Yazidi, A. A. Mofrad, M. Goodwin, H. L. Hammer and E. Arntzen
Balanced difficulty task finder: an adaptive recommendation method for learning tasks based on the concept of state of flow
Cognitive Neurodynamics
A. Yazidi, I. Hassan, H. L. Hammer and J. Oommen
Achieving Fair Load Balancing by Invoking a Learning Automata-Based Two-Time-Scale Separation Paradigm
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
V. Thambawita, D. Jha, H. L. Hammer, H. D. Johansen, D. Johansen, P. Halvorsen and M. Riegler
An Extensive Study on Cross-Dataset Bias and Evaluation Metrics Interpretation for Machine Learning applied to Gastrointestinal Tract Abnormality Classification
ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare
S. Pontes-Filho, P. Lind, A. Yazidi, J. Zhang, H. L. Hammer, G. B. Mello, I. Sandvig, G. Tufte and S. Nichele
A neuro-inspired general framework for the evolution of stochastic dynamical systems: Cellular automata, random Boolean networks and echo state networks towards criticality
Cognitive Neurodynamics
H. Borgli, V. Thambawita, P. H. Smedsrud, S. Hicks, D. Jha, S. L. Eskeland, K. R. Randel, K. Pogorelov, M. Lux, D. T. D. Nguyen, D. Johansen, C. Griwodz, H. K. Stensland, E. Garcia-Ceja, P. T. Schmidt, H. L. Hammer, M. Riegler, P. Halvorsen and T. de Lange
HyperKvasir, a comprehensive multi-class image and video dataset for gastrointestinal endoscopy
Scientific Data
A. A. Mofrad, A. Yazidi, H. L. Hammer and E. Arntzen
Equivalence projective simulation as a framework for modeling formation of stimulus equivalence classes
Neural computation
A. A. Mofrad, A. Yazidi, H. L. Hammer and E. Arntzen
Equivalence projective simulation as a framework for modeling formation of stimulus equivalence classes
Neural computation
Posters
S. Hicks, T. B. Haugen, M. Iliceto, H. L. Hammer, J. M. Andersen, O. Witczak, M. Riegler and M. Stensen
Big data is not always better – prediction of live birth using machine learning on time-lapse videos of human embryos
Proceedings, refereed
S. Hicks, V. Thambawita, H. L. Hammer, T. B. Haugen, J. M. Andersen, O. Witczak, P. Halvorsen and M. Riegler
ACM Multimedia BioMedia 2020 Grand Challenge Overview
Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia
S. Hicks, D. Jha, V. Thambawita, P. Halvorsen, H. L. Hammer and M. Riegler
The EndoTect 2020 Challenge: Evaluation and Comparison of Classification, Segmentation and Inference Time for Endoscopy
25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
M. A. Pinto-Orellana and H. L. Hammer
Analysis of Optical Brain Signals Using Connectivity Graph Networks
International Cross-Domain Conference for Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction
H. Svoren, V. Thambawita, P. Halvorsen, P. Jakobsen, E. Garcia-Ceja, F. M. Noori, H. L. Hammer, M. Lux, M. Riegler and S. Hicks
Toadstool: A Dataset for Training Emotional IntelligentMachines Playing Super Mario Bros
The ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys)
V. Thambawita, S. Hicks, H. Borgli, H. K. Stensland, D. Jha, M. K. Svensen, S. Pettersen, D. Johansen, H. D. Johansen, S. D. Pettersen, S. Nordvang, S. Pedersen, A. Gjerdrum, T. Grønli, P. M. Fredriksen, R. Eg, K. Hansen, S. Fagernes, C. Claudi, A. Biørn-Hansen, D. T. D. Nguyen, T. Kupka, H. L. Hammer, R. Jain, M. Riegler and P. Halvorsen
PMData: a sports logging dataset
Proceedings of the 11th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference
S. Pontes-Filho, P. Lind, A. Yazidi, J. Zhang, H. L. Hammer, G. B. Mello, I. Sandvig, G. Tufte and S. Nichele
EvoDynamic: A Framework for the Evolution of Generally Represented Dynamical Systems and Its Application to Criticality
International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (Part of EvoStar)
2019
Journal Articles
S. Hicks, J. M. Andersen, O. Witczak, V. Thambawita, P. Halvorsen, H. L. Hammer, T. B. Haugen and M. Riegler
Machine Learning-Based Analysis of Sperm Videos and Participant Data for Male Fertility Prediction
Nature Scientific Reports
N. Tatara, H. L. Hammer, J. Mirkovic, M. K. R. Kjøllesdal and H. K. Andreassen
Associations Between Immigration-Related User Factors and eHealth Activities for Self-Care: Case of First-Generation Immigrants From Pakistan in the Oslo Area, Norway
JMIR public health and surveillance
H. L. Hammer and A. Yazidi
Smooth estimates of multiple quantiles in dynamically varying data streams
Pattern Analysis and Applications
A. Yazidi, H. L. Hammer and T. M. Jonassen
Two-time scale learning automata: an efficient decision making mechanism for stochastic nonlinear resource allocation
Applied Intelligence
H. L. Hammer, A. Yazidi and H. Rue
A new quantile tracking algorithm using a generalized exponentially weighted average of observations
Applied Intelligence
A. A. Mofrad, A. Yazidi and H. L. Hammer
On solving the SPL problem using the concept of probability flux
Applied Intelligence
M. Riegler, J. Andersen, M. Andersen, H. L. Hammer, S. Hicks, A. Hicks, W. Oliwia and T. Haugen
Artificial intelligence as a tool in predicting sperm motility and morphology: P-116
Human Reproduction
O. Witczak, J. Andersen, S. Hicks, H. L. Hammer, M. Riegler and T. Haugen
Artificial intelligence predicts sperm motility from sperm fatty acids: P-120
Human Reproduction
Proceedings, refereed
V. Thambawita, H. L. Hammer, M. Riegler and P. Halvorsen
GANEx: A complete pipeline of training, inference and benchmarking GAN experiments
2019 International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI)
A. Nordskog, P. Halvorsen, S. Hicks, H. K. Stensland, H. L. Hammer, D. Johansen and M. Riegler
Semantic Analysis of Soccer News for Automatic Game Event Classification
2019 International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI)
V. Thambawita, P. Halvorsen, H. L. Hammer, M. Riegler and T. B. Haugen
Stacked dense optical flows and dropout layers to predict sperm motility and morphology
MediaEval 2019, 27-29 October 2019, Sophia Antipolis, France
V. Thambawita, P. Halvorsen, H. L. Hammer, M. Riegler and T. B. Haugen
Extracting temporal features into a spatial domain using autoencoders for sperm video analysis
MediaEval 2019
S. Hicks, P. Halvorsen, T. B. Haugen, J. M. Andersen, O. Witczak, K. Pogorelov, H. L. Hammer, D. Dang-Nguyen, M. Lux and M. Riegler
Predicting Sperm Motility and Morphology using Deep Learning and Handcrafted Features
MediaEval
S. Hicks, P. Halvorsen, T. B. Haugen, J. M. Andersen, O. Witczak, K. Pogorelov, H. L. Hammer, D. Dang-Nguyen, M. Lux and M. Riegler
Medico Multimedia Task at MediaEval 2019
MediaEval
T. B. Haugen, S. Hicks, J. M. Andersen, O. Witczak, H. L. Hammer, R. Borgli, P. Halvorsen and M. Riegler
VISEM: a multimodal video dataset of human spermatozoa
Proceedings of the 10th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference
H. L. Hammer, M. Riegler, L. Øvrelid and E. Velldal
THREAT: A Large Annotated Corpus for Detection of Violent Threats
2019 International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI)
2018
Proceedings, refereed
V. Thambawita and D. Jha
The Medico-Task 2018: Disease Detection in the Gastrointestinal Tract using Global Features and Deep Learning
MediaEval 2018