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.
Artificial intelligence in computer science education involves both the teaching of concepts from computer science and the discussion of social, ethical and everyday-related questions.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Dr. Bernhard Standl (…
Digital assessment formats open up new possibilities for tasks, visualizations, interactive elements and competence-oriented assessment.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Dr. Bernhard Standl (bernhard.standl@univie.ac.at).
Digital teaching materials can support learning processes, task completion or feedback.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Dr. Bernhard Standl (bernhard.standl@univie.ac.at).
The Vienna Vulkan Engine (VVE) is a simple game engine. The Vienna Entity Component System (VECS) is a compile time ECS with high performance in mind. Create a game with them, e.g., by using OpenGL or Vulkan. Make use of VECS by including tens of thousands of objects.
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An airport AI system could use cameras to detect blind people and provide them with directions via an app on how to get to specific locations: restrooms, the gate, or a restaurant. It could also announce the time and let them know when it’s time to head to the gate.
If you are interested in this…
Modern CPUs provide many cores, which can run threads in parallel. It stands to hypothesize that this might be already enough to 100% render a game just on this cores, without the GPU involved. Develop a software based renderer that uses the VGJS system to parallelize render tasks.
If you are…
Create an arena where NPCs fight against each other. Train an ML model (neural networks) to create efficient NPC behavior. Create a decision tree that explains this behavior as white box model.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (…
Work on lockless data structures in multithreaded games: queues, stacks, arrays, maps.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (helmut.hlavacs@univie.ac.at).
Create GANs to create stuff - like cars, people, houses, trees, … Use them to compress videos with these objects.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (helmut.hlavacs@univie.ac.at).
