Institut für Nachrichtentechnik
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Raake
At our institute, we constantly offer topics for final theses. The topic suggestions you can find on this page are usually strongly related to our assistants' current research, and thus allow you to work on state-of-the-art technologies. All of our research groups offer topics which are suitable as a Bachelor or a Master thesis. Don't hesitate to contact the responsible assistants regarding the topic suggestions or their research in general.
For general questions on final theses at our institute, please reach out to Ulrik Deneken.
Advances in Virtual (VR), Augmented (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) enable immersive and interactive user experiences, while raising key questions about user behavior, and comfort. This thesis topic addresses experimental investigation and modeling of user behavior in immersive systems, with a focus on perceptual, cognitive, and physiological aspects of interaction. Possible research directions include the analysis of audiovisual attention, head and eye movements, interaction behavior, user experience, and adverse effects such as cybersickness. Depending on the thesis scope, the work may involve controlled user studies, behavioral data analysis, and computational modeling of user data in immersive environments.
Contact persons: Pauline Bimberg, Abhinav Bhattacharya, Ulrik Deneken, and Jakob Hartbrich.
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Visual information such as images and videos contributes to an ever-increasing majority of today’s internet traffic. The diversity of this visual data is immense due to the varied nature of its sources and purpose. The content may be produced professionally as on-demand assets, captured casually under uncontrolled conditions for social media (user generated content), or may come from a non-human source, e.g., Generative-AI (GenAI). The content may further be subjected to arbitrary degradation processes during production, transmission, and consumption. Visual Quality assessment (VQA) stands as a crucial tool to optimize quality of experience, given the physical constraints of capture and display methods, as well as transmission infrastructure.
The thesis topics in this area will focus on developing subjective and instrumental (deep-learning-/AI-based) methods for perceptual assessment of visual media for three use cases: (i) "traditional", user-generated as well as professionally generated video content, and (ii) AI-processed videos of any human generated type, and (iii) GenAI content which introduces novel case-specific artifacts.
Contact persons: Rakesh Rao, Julius Prenzel, and Srijeet Roy
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The auditory system has remarkable capabilities, including a vast dynamic range, fine frequency selectivity, and the ability to focus on a particular sound source amongst many. These capabilities still remain difficult to replicate with current audio technologies. In the Audio & Audition group, we investigate auditory processing, develop models to predict individual perceptual outcomes, and study hearing loss and hearing-aid performance. BSc and MSc projects explore healthy and impaired hearing through computational modelling, simulations, and psychoacoustic experiments, ranging from studying specific perceptual phenomena to developing and testing models of auditory processing and running perceptual listening tests.
Contact persons: Lily Paulick, Felix Immohr, and Fan Zhang.
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