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 physics model for water surfaces into the Vienna Vulkan Engine. Focus on light refraction, surface ripples, waves and interaction with solid objects, spray, Laplace equation, Navier-Stokes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGEqaX4Y4bQ
If you are interested in this topic or for more…
Use Segment Anything to segment video frames, then train GANs to encode the segments efficiently.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (helmut.hlavacs@univie.ac.at).
The Vienna Physics Engine contains soft bodies, create a scenario where simulated wind moves clothes.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (helmut.hlavacs@univie.ac.at).
Explore the potential of LLCs like ChatGPT or Bard for steering conversations of NPCs in role play games.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (helmut.hlavacs@univie.ac.at).
Rewrite the Vulkan tutorial in such a way as to minimize the number of lines of code. Keep them under 500.
https://vulkan-tutorial.com/
https://github.com/Overv/VulkanTutorial
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (…
Write a level editor for the Vienna Vulkan Engine.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (helmut.hlavacs@univie.ac.at).
Write a crash model for cars and other stuff for the Vienna Physics Engine. The crash model should simulate crashes, damages, things being deformed or destroyed. It should be based on Finite Elements.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (…
For the Vienna Physics Engine, create a building destruction model. Buildings should be destructible, be destroyed by cannons, explosions, collapsing walls, etc. It should create dust, debris, wall parts, etc.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut…
For the Vienna Physics Engine, create a model for a bipedal walker, i.e. a human walking on 2 legs. You can use the rigid body and constraint implementation in the engine. Use motors to act on the limbs. Start with a 2D version and some starting estimation for the values, then use continuous…
