The following contains currently open thesis topics in our areas of research. If you are interested in a topic or have a thesis idea of your own that might fit our research interests, please contact us directly.
Implement a Vulkan compute shader that is able to quickly find possible collisions for the VPE.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (helmut.hlavacs@univie.ac.at).
Create a LUMEN like Global Illumination renderer for the Vienna Vulkan Engine 2.0.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (helmut.hlavacs@univie.ac.at).
Implement shadows for the VVE 2.0 forward renderer. This includes shadow maps and ray traced shadows.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (helmut.hlavacs@univie.ac.at).
There are crazy mechanical joints out there, like universal, inerter, etc. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrexH-owqnk
Start implementing such joints in VPE.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (helmut.hlavacs@univie.ac.at).
An intelligent crossing is viewing the situation and predicts imminent accidents.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (helmut.hlavacs@univie.ac.at).
Create a game with the Unreal Engine that lets players create billions of trees around desert areas of the world. Calculate the net costs of planting them, including direct costs and net win due to decreasing climate change costs. Also calculate the impact on the world climate. Obtain a model of the…
Make a physics simulation of a bird with wings. Use reinforcement learning to create a flying bird that takes off and flies from A to B.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (helmut.hlavacs@univie.ac.at).
Use the Vienna Vulkan Engine to create a photorealistic street scene.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (helmut.hlavacs@univie.ac.at).
Take over an existing learning space shooter game about the solar system. Work over the learning text. Create text using LLMs dynamically. Also create dynamic text and speech spoken from your
allies and enemies. For each fact that is taught, create quiz questions dynamically that are later used to…
