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.
Create a diffusion model for rendering video game frames. It takes N previous frames + a currently created frame and outputs a full rendered frame. The input frame should be created using ray tracing in real time with a much smaller resolution. For training, also a full resolution version should be…
The VIGAI library implements a number of algorithms. Extend the library with e.g. reinforcement learning, deep learning, MCTS, GOAP, Rule based systems, Blackboard Architectures, CNNs, etc.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (…
Create an ML model that can translate SPIR-V to Slang / HLSL.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (helmut.hlavacs@univie.ac.at).
Implement Game Streaming with Vulkan Video into the new Vienna Vulkan Engine 2.0. Use Quantization maps to adapt the bitrate.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (helmut.hlavacs@univie.ac.at).
Create a lightweight version of Nvidia Neural Texture Compression. It should be lightweight enough to allow decompression directly in the shader. Cut the texture into smaller tiles and create a model for each tile independently. This should result in smaller models and faster evaluation for each…
Vulkan suffers from too much freedom. Create a standard Vulkan renderer path that results in components that can be enabled or disabled, or even automatically created by LLMs.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (…
Create something similar to DLSS upscaling 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).
Create something similar to DLSS denoising 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).
Create a deferred 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).
