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.
The Hydra scene manager is available for academic purposes. Make a path for VVE 2.0 to use Hydra.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (helmut.hlavacs@univie.ac.at).
Create a Slang shader creator and compile tool for VVE 2.0. Include the Vulkan Graphics Pipeline library for this, allowing for JIT pipeline creation.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (helmut.hlavacs@univie.ac.at).
Implement compute shaders, AO and MSAA to VVE 2.0.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (helmut.hlavacs@univie.ac.at).
Use libGPULayers to Catch vk commands and send them over Network to a renderer client. Use wrappers for memcpy to deal with mapped memory.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (helmut.hlavacs@univie.ac.at).
Implement scripting ontop of VVE, like Python, TCL, …
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (helmut.hlavacs@univie.ac.at).
Slang offers a wider range of shader reflection mechanisms. Implement them into 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).
The Vienna Entity Component System needs efficient queries, which can be sped up by using query caching. Caching is already implemented but it’s not switched on and needs to be optimized and tested.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (…
Implement sweep and prune broad phase algorithm. 1. Regularly choose the world axis with largest spread. 2. Use positions of all objects to find the axis with largest spread using PCA. Compare 1 and 2.
If you are interested in this topic or for more information please contact Prof. Helmut Hlavacs (…
Integrate a downloadable LLM into the Vienna Vulkan Engine. The interface should be a text prompt. The AI should create models that are stored as glTF or PNG, WAV, etc. on disk, and that are then loaded into the engine and displayed. A solution could also provide a GUI with special tools for each…
