Topics for Projects and Theses

Betreuung/Supervision

For more information about diploma theses, projects, and bachelor theses please see the respective pages - this page just lists topics for these projects.

The best way to obtain a topic for a Computer Science Project, a Bachelor Thesis or a Diploma Thesis is to contact the supervisor of one of the topics listed below by email. For other topics, contact the heads of the main research directions best fitting your interest listed in the following.

The Computer Science Projects may also be completed in cooperation with a company. Such external projects have to conform to a number of guidelines.

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Main research directions

Visualization (contact: Eduard Gröller)
Visualisierung im Allgemeinen, im Speziellen: Volumenvisualisierung, Informationsvisualisierung, Visual Analytics, Illustrative Visualisierung.
Rendering and Modeling (contact: Michael Wimmer)
Real-Time Rendering, Urban Visualization, Procedural Modeling, Point-Based Reconstruction, Modeling and Rendering, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Perceptual Studies using Eye Tracking, ...
Virtual and Augmented Reality (contact: Hannes Kaufmann)
(Optical) Tracking and Motion Capture, 3D HCI including Locomotion, High Quality Rendering for Mixed Reality, 3D Reconstruction for Mixed Reality, VR Medical Applications & Virtual Rehabilitation, Spatial Understanding in Mixed Reality, Immersive Mixed Reality applications in general.
Other topics
Topics not fitting in one of these three main research directions.
VRVis
Außerdem gibt es auch die Möglichkeit, Praktika, Bachelorarbeiten und Diplomarbeiten am Forschungszentrum VRVis zu absolvieren.

Abkürzungen

PR = Praktikum, BA = Bachelorarbeit, DA = Diplomarbeit,
PR/BA/DA = Praktikum, Bachelorarbeit oder Diplomarbeit, der Arbeitsumfang wird entsprechend angepasst.

Rendering and Modeling - Topics
	Title	Type	Persons
NEW	€1000 CycleSafely	BA, PR, DA	1-3
	Shape optimization of light sources with global illumination objectives	PR, DA	1
	€1000 Immersive Redesign	BA, PR, DA	1-3
	Virtual Vienna: Modeling the City with Machine Learning and Procedural Geometry	BA, PR, DA	3
	Lossy BVH Compression	PR, DA	1
	Non-Linear Rasterization on a Mobile GPU	DA	1
	Robustly Predicting Triangle Rasterization Errors	PR, DA	1
	Modern C++ and Vulkan Rendering Framework	PR	0
	Screen-Space Material Based Variable Rate Shading	BA, PR, DA	1-3
	Backface Culling of Meshlets for Skeletal Animation	PR, DA	1
	Novel deep learning methods for 3d volumetric data	DA	1
	Performance improvements for Machine Learning / Cuda implementation	PR	1
	3D data Representation Conversion	PR	1
	Dynamic Priority Queue for the GPU	PR, DA	1
	Anime Deep Learning	BA, PR, DA	5-6
	Real-Time Rendering	BA, PR, DA	1-4

Virtual Reality Group - Topics
	Title	Type	Persons
NEW	€1000 Real-time 3D Reconstruction and Model-Based Tracking	BA, PR, DA	1-2
	Streamed Ray-Tracing in Mobile Augmented Reality	PR, DA	1
	Streamed Realistic Agent in Augmented Reality	PR, DA	1
	Molecular Properties Prediction Using Deep Lerning	DA	1
	AR-Schulungs-Anwendung für die HoloLens 2 für das Lehrpersonal im Bauingenieurwesen	DA	1
	Comparison of multiple commercial hand tracking solutions for VR	DA	1
	Supportive Technology for Body Stretching via Online Gamification	DA	1
	1000€:Group navigation methods in large-scale collocated VR	DA	1
	Realistic Humanoid Agent in Virtual Reality	DA	1

Visualization Group - Topics
	Title	Type	Persons
NEW	Dashboard Onboarding	BA, PR, DA	1-2
	Visual Analytics for Understanding and Predicting Depression Mechanisms	PR, DA	1
	Visual Inspection of CNN Robustness through Exploratory Synthetic Scene Analysis	PR, DA	1
	Paid User Study Assistance	PR	1-3
	Visualizing Knowledge Graphs	PR, DA	1
	Predictive visual analytics for prostate cancer therapy	DA	1
	Visual Analytics to Support Follow-up Studies in Cancer Radiotherapy	DA	1
	Visualizing cancer treatment through time	DA	1
	The Anatomical Edutainer 2: A Physicalization Project in the Domain of Medical Visualization	DA	1
	How does a Scientific Community evolve?	BA, PR
	Visualizing Mobility in the times of COVID	BA, PR
	Visual Analytics for Volume Rendering	DA
	Visual comparison of dynamical systems	DA
	Provenance and inter-observer variability	DA
	Storytelling for anatomical education	DA
	Wearable anatomical physicalizations	BA, PR, DA
	Augmented medical physicalizations	BA, PR, DA
	Storytelling of COVID-19 using Cartogram Animation	PR, DA	1
	Interactive Visual Exploration of Diachronic Word Embeddings	DA	1
	X-Ray Path Tracing for CT Imaging	BA, PR, DA	1-2
	Style Transfering for Anatomy Education	DA	1
	Interactive Analysis of Virtual Jaw Movement Trajectories	PR, DA	1
	Scalable Comparative Visualization through Skeletonizations	DA	1
	Smart State-of-the-Art Research Interface	DA	1
	Visual Interface to a Random Circuit Generator	BA, PR, DA	1
	Exploring the Design Space of Complex Network Visualization & Interaction in VR	BA, PR, DA	1
	VISUAPPS Web-based Medical Visualization	DA	2

VRVis - Topics
Title	Type	Persons
Master Thesis Biomed.Vis. - PET/MR data	DA	1
Master Thesis Biomed.Vis. - ML for Attenuation Maps	DA	1
Rendering, Visual Data Science, and Simulation Topics in Visdom	BA, PR, DA	7-10
Agent-based Simulations (Crowd, Traffic)	PR, DA	1-2