The Virtual Reality and Visualisation Group offers students the opportunity to undertake research-oriented semester projects as well as Bachelor’s or Master’s theses, in which they work closely with research assistants to develop and address relevant research questions that match their personal skills and interests. We offer projects and dissertations in the fields of big data visualisation, multi-user virtual reality, information visualisation, scientific visualisation, real-time rendering and Human-Computer Interaction.
Mobile Information Visualisation
We analysed the current state of the art in mobile visualisations, as well as their limitations and challenges. We then designed a web-based data visualisation application that visualised multivariate waste data from EU countries using parallel coordinates and touch interactions specifically tailored for mobile devices.
Interaction in Social VR
We analysed the capabilities of existing social VR systems and developed novel interaction techniques, including a toolset for delivering presentations in social virtual environments, metaphors for managing transitions of the presenter role, a toolset for simulating and evaluating eye contact, and short-term group navigation techniques based on virtual hand-holding.
Non-photorealistic rendering for VR applications
In our NPR Gallery, we demonstrated how Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR) effects such as outlines, hatching, toon shading and duotone surfaces can be applied to virtual objects. We then adapted selected NPR effects for use with real-time volumetric avatars, paving the way for studies evaluating how NPR can influence the user’s experience in VR.
Interested in a Thesis?
We would be happy to accompany your thesis as well.
To enquire about current thesis topics contact the respective research assistants in the area of your interest. We are always open for your own ideas and proposals.
Real-Time Rendering & Telepresence: Adrian Kreskowski, Gareth Rendle
Interaction & Multi-User VR: Ephraim Schott, Anton Lammert, Tony Zöppig, Karoline Brehm
Information Visualization & Visual Text Analytics: Dora Kiesel, Irene López García
(see People)
In your mail, please include your relevant prior experience in the domain of interest and some information about the student projects you have completed. When suggesting your own topic, you may include any complementary material, which will help us to evaluate the scope of what you have in mind.
Requirements
While it is not a strict requirement, we strongly recommend having successfully completed our Virtual Reality or Visualization course or a student project at our chair, prior to approaching a thesis in a related field. Our theses overall require practical experience with relevant coding tools for VR and Visualization systems and a reasonable degree of understanding for the related context of your thesis. Especially for Masters theses, we expect that you will spend less time learning or being educated about fundamentals and more time self-sufficiently thinking about and working towards a unique contribution in your domain of interest.
Procedure
For general information on the thesis procedure, please refer to your examination regulations. For students of Computer Science for Digital Media (M.Sc.), the process is also detailed in a slide set on the website of the programme.
Completed theses
Bachelor's Theses
- Jonas Roquette. Investigation of Synchrony Measures and Synchrony-Enhancing Design for Social VR Dance Environments. Winter Term 2025/2026.
- Jeremias Michael Kilian. Cross-platform rendering of level-of-detail point clouds using the Vulkan graphics API. Summer Term 2025.
- Christiane Gütter. Visual Exploration and Analysis of Online Discussions in the r/ChangeMyView Forum. Summer Term 2025.
- Jakob Béla Ruckel. Level-of-detail point-cloud refinement using the Vulkan graphics API. Summer Term 2024.
- Joshua König. Set-based visualisation of topic intersections in argument search results. Summer Term 2023.
- Jacob Christian Alexander Lammert. Accelerated Direct Isosurface Rendering using Ray-Tracing Hardware. Summer Term 2022.
- Vanessa Yasmin Retz. Direct Volume Rendering and Interaction for Virtual Reality Applications in Unity Managed Code. Summer Term 2022.
- Leon-Etienne Kühr. Look what I found! Common ground and awareness in real-time web-based collaborative visual analysis of user comments. Summer Term 2022.
- Emil Reinert. Interactive Clustering and Visualisation of Time Series. Winter Term 2020/2021.
- Manuel Hartmann. Implicit mode switching for two-handed 3D modelling gestures. Winter Term 2019/2020.
- Lorenz Gunreben. Group navigation in virtual reality – collaborative teleportation using the ‘world in miniature’ metaphor. Summer Term 2019.
- Joachim Billert. Asynchronous and Adaptive Depth-Image Warping for Modern Deferred Rendering Pipelines. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2018/2019.
- Yorrick Sieler-Morzuch. Streaming and Rendering of Large Point-based Models for Mobile Devices. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2018/2019.
- Giuliano Castiglia. Visualization of Wikipedia’s category structure and filtering of article similarities based on categories. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2017/2018.
- Hendrik Lober. Two-handed and hierarchical manipulation in virtual reality. Bachelor’s thesis. Summer term 2017.
- Magdalena Keil. Multi-touch 3D navigation – studies on the mapping of 2D input gestures to 3D camera movements. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2016/2017.
- Jakob Wagner. Real-Time 3D Reconstruction from Multiple RGBD Sensor Streams. Bachelor’s Thesis. Summer Term 2016.
- Moritz Loos. Robust Hand and Finger Tracking – A Method for Optimising Tracking on Multi-Touch Tabletop Systems. Bachelor’s Thesis. Summer Term 2016.
- Dean Jürges. A framework for developing Visualizations to compare continuous text using difference algorithms. Bachelor’s Thesis. Summer Term 2016.
- Marie Bornemann. Investigation of mental load when using interactive visualisation techniques with the aid of measured eye movements. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2015/2016.
- Jakob Harlan. 3D navigation in virtual environments of varying scales. Winter Term 2015/2016.
- Sebastian Stickert. Multi-touch interaction with an immersive 3D screen table. Bachelor’s Thesis. Summer Term 2015.
- Ephraim Schott. An extensible 2D menu system for 3D multi-user environments to implement preview-based navigation. Bachelor’s Thesis. Summer Term 2015.
- Tim Weißker. Configurable and generic application infrastructures for 3D multi-user, multi-display environments in virtual reality. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2014/2015.
- Adrian Kreskowski. Occlusion culling and effective cut control for level-of-detail representations of point-based scenes. Bachelor’s thesis. Winter term 2014/2015.
- Wieland Möbius. Icon-based Visualization of food ingredients. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2014/2015.
- Jannis Harder. Visualization of time-based log data from photovoltaic systems. Bachelor’s Thesis. Summer Term 2014.
- Sebastian Utzig. Placing and Connecting – Development of New 3D Interaction Techniques for Collaborative Construction Planning in Virtual Reality. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2013/2014.
- Peter Hirsch. Investigations into improving the display quality of 3D video avatars. Bachelor’s Thesis. Summer Term 2013.
- Sascha Schmidt. Wordgraph Reloaded – Reimplementation and New Concepts. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2012/2013.
- Simon Nguyen. Cache and prefetch strategies for accelerating 2D online adventures. Bachelor’s thesis. Summer term 2012.
- Michael Pannier. Pie Slider – An Extensible Pie Menu for Rotation-Based Manipulation of Objects. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2011/2012.
- Franz Müller. Virtual component placement using physical props. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2011/2012.
- Franziska Ritz-Gutjahr. A study of two input devices for multi-user interaction in a virtual environment. Bachelor’s Thesis. Summer Term 2011.
- Stefanie Wetzel. The photographic metaphor for interacting with portals in virtual reality. Bachelor’s thesis. Summer term 2011.
- Felicitas Höbelt. MessageAssistant – A graphical, frequency-based approach to composing short messages. Bachelor’s Thesis. Summer Term 2011.
- Nicole Magiera. Group navigation for architectural tours in virtual space. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2010/2011.
- Jens Opolka. Parallel Queries – A product explorer. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2010/2011.
- Bastian Karge. Multi-touch interface for high-resolution images. Bachelor’s thesis. Winter term 2010/2011.
- Roman Reichel. Development of an intelligent wireless multi-user shutter glasses system. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2010/2011.
- Dustin Beyer. Named Entity Recognition – Sequence Classification using Hidden Markov Models and the Perceptron Algorithm. Bachelor’s Thesis. Summer Term 2010.
- Martin Triebel. GPU ray tracing of elevation data. Bachelor’s thesis. Summer term 2010.
- Ferry Häntsch. Finger collision detection for virtual environments. Bachelor’s thesis. Winter term 2009/2010.
- Konstantin Silin. Investigations into the efficient rendering of large image datasets on modern hardware. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2009/2010.
- Sebastian Thiele. Extended volume rendering with multidimensional transfer functions. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2009/2010.
- Sascha Gärtner. Development and evaluation of interaction techniques for placement planning in virtual reality. Bachelor’s Thesis. Summer Term 2009.
- Steffen Coriand. Advanced volume ray-casting with CUDA. Bachelor’s thesis. Winter term 2008/2009.
- Susanne Günther. Visualization of geometric parameters of the pore and microstructure of porous materials. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2008/2009.
- Steffen Hippeli. The RockingPad – Draft and evaluation of a functional extension of touchpads. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2008/2009.
- Alexander Schiewe. Large Image Rendering – Interactive display of large image datasets. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2008/2009.
- Markus Hartleb. Investigation of heuristics for finding all zeros of polynomials in Bernstein-Bézier form. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2007/2008.
- Tsvetomira Palakarska. Intrinsic plagiarism detection with outliers. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2007/2008.
- Robert Dünger. An acceleration scheme for trimming parametric surfaces on the GPU. Bachelor’s Thesis. Summer Term 2007.
- Judith Moosburner. Model-based segmentation in medical volumetric datasets using an L1 thoracic vertebra. Bachelor’s Thesis. Summer Term 2007.
- Martin Reichl. Automated acquisition and evaluation of domain-specific metrics for graphical algorithms. Bachelor’s Thesis. Summer Term 2007.
- Julian Seifert. CoDaMine – Facilitating Online Contact Management Through Text Communication Classification. Bachelor’s Thesis. Summer Term 2007.
- Marcel Pfotenhauer. Navigation with the pufferfish. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2006/2007.
- Onno Haak. A Low-Level Framework for the Integration of Complex Sensor Components. Bachelor’s Thesis. Summer Term 2006.
- Sven Banisch. Making Grass and Fur Move. Bachelor’s Thesis. Summer Term 2005.
- Sonja Gutzeit. Detection, Localisation and Identification in the Peripheral Field of View: Effects on Perception and Eye Tracking. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2004/2005.
- Christian Lessig. Interactive ray tracing and ray casting on programmable graphics cards. Bachelor’s Thesis. Winter Term 2004/2005.
- Alexander Speed. Long-term evaluation study of 12-DOF input devices
for navigation and manipulation in 3-D environments. Bachelor’s thesis. Winter term 2004/2005.
Master's Theses
- Hend Barakat. Interactive Dashboard for Online Ads Performance. Summer Term 2026
- Faezeh Sajedi. Taking and Sharing Marks in Lectures in Virtual Reality. Summer Term 2026
- Abdalrhman Zakaria Lofty Most Abdullah. A Pose-based Multimodal Visual Analytics Framework for Performance Modelling and Coaching in Olympic 10-Metre Air Pistol Shooting. Winter Term 2025/2026.
- Clemens Reinhard. Slicing Sets: Improving Parallel Sets and Burger Charts for Survey Analysis. Summer Term 2025.
- Jacob Christian Alexander Lammert. Hybrid Multi-User XR Collaboration Across Multiple Rooms and Their Digital Twins. Summer Term 2025.
- Pramoch Viriyathomrongul. Enhancing User Experience with Collocated Mixed Reality: Interactive Tutorials and Seamless Transitions. Summer Term 2025.
- Özgesu Özen. Designing and Developing Educational Escape Rooms in Social Virtual Reality for Users of Varying Heights. Winter Term 2024/2025.
- Eric Schlossberg. Ghost in the Machine: An Extended-Reality Co-located Live-music Performance. Summer Term 2024.
- Karoline Brehm. Designing the Voice Display for a Social VR Learning Environment. Winter Term 2023/2024.
- Ensiyeh Esfandiari. An overview of progression in time-oriented data. Winter Term 2023/2024.
- Krishna Priya Choudoor. Interface for Spatial 3D Replay to Guide Exploration in Virtual Museums. Winter Term 2023/2024.
- Ketan Patel. Information Retrieval in Multi-User Virtual Museum Experiences. Winter Term 2023/2024.
- Omar Nada. Virtual Lecture Hall. Winter Term 2023/2024.
- Irene López García. Supporting Interaction with a Conversational Agent in Virtual Knowledge Spaces. Summer Term 2023.
- Tony Jan Zöppig. Spatial Awareness for Augmented Reality Users in Asymmetrical Collaborative Extended Realities. Winter Term 2022/2023.
- Anton Benjamin Lammert. Recording & Immersive Exploration of Virtual Reality Experiences. Summer Term 2022.
- Ankith Kodanda. Magic Teleporting Carpet: A lightweight metaphor for enabling dynamic group navigation in multi-user VR. Summer Term 2022.
- Aalok Shashidhar Gokhale. Mid-Air Jumping through Immersive Virtual Environments. Summer Term 2022.
- Bekir Batuhan Bakir. Real-Time Occlusion Culling for Massive Level-of-Detail Models on Modern GPUs. Winter Term 2021/2022.
- Ramsha Saad Thaniana. Jumping for Guided Navigation in Immersive Virtual Environments. Winter Term 2021/2022.
- Sang Minh Nguyen. Visualisation of Temporal Patterns in Cluster Monitoring. Winter Term 2020/2021.
- Hiyeon Kim. A Visual Analysis Tool for Geolocation Inference Methods. Summer Term 2020.
- Gareth Rendle. Temporal TSDF-SVO: Exploiting temporal coherence in 4D dataset visualisation. Winter Term 2019/2020.
- Erika Patricia Garces. Towards Visualisation of Relationships Between Highly Branching Hierarchies. Winter Term 2019/2020.
- Ephraim Schott. Efficient Verification of Photogrammetric Reconstructions. Summer Term 2019.
- Clara Pauline Bimberg. Joint Navigation of Spatially Distributed Partners in Immersive Virtual Environments. Summer Term 2019.
- Philipp Seltmann. Accurate Target Specification for Long-Distance Jumping through Immersive Virtual Environments. Summer Term 2019.
- Joshua Reibert. Touch-based Information Visualisation on Display Walls. Master’s Thesis. Winter Term 2018/2019.
- Anton Frolov. Spatio-Temporal Integration for Real-Time High-Fidelity Reconstruction of 3D Video Avatars. Master’s Thesis. Winter Term 2018/2019.
- Mariya Kaisheva. 3D Line Art for Large Point-based Models. Master’s Thesis. Winter Term 2017/2018.
- Gabriela Molina. Touch Interaction with Scatterplot Matrix Visualisations on a Tiled-Wall Display. Master’s Thesis. Winter Term 2017/2018.
- René Levin. Potentially Visible Sets in Massive Level-of-Detail Point Clouds. Master’s Thesis. Summer Term 2017.
- Tim Weißker. Navigation in Immersive Virtual Reality – The Effects of Steering and Jumping Techniques on Spatial Updating. Master’s Thesis. Summer Term 2017.
- Adrian Kreskowski. Hardware-Assisted High-Quality Compression-Domain Rendering of Time-Varying Volumetric Data Sets. Master’s Thesis. Winter Term 2016/2017.
- Martin Horbach. Real-time stereo matching on GPU. Master’s Thesis. Summer Term 2016.
- Felix Lauer. Virtual Streets – Visualisation and Exploration of Multi-Sensor 3D Street Scans. Master’s Thesis. Summer Term 2016.
- Sebastian Utzig. GPU-based ray casting of level-of-detail point clouds. Master’s thesis. Summer term 2016.
- Carl-Feofan Matthes. Balanced multi-view level-of-detail rendering of massive polygonal scenes. Master’s thesis. Winter term 2015/2016.
- Jens Opolka. Inside Mall: Visual Analytics of Customer Activities. Master’s Thesis. Winter Term 2015/2016.
- Simon Schneegans. Image Warping for Latency Reduction in Virtual Reality. Master’s Thesis. Winter Term 2015/2016.
- Umair Jabbar. Text Selection with Multi-Touch Devices. Master’s Thesis. Winter Term 2015/2016.
- Stefanie Wetzel. Can Eye Movements Reveal Cognitive Load? Parallel Coordinates – Establishing a Cognitive Load Measure for Information Visualisations. Master’s Thesis. Winter Term 2014/2015.
- Dora Spensberger. Bazon Brock: Visualisation – A Thinker’s Life. Master’s Thesis. Winter Term 2014/2015.
- Andrey Babanin. Order-Independent Transparency for Programmable Deferred Shading Pipelines. Master’s Thesis. Winter Term 2014/2015.
- Sebastian Thiele. Artefact Reduction for Multi-Resolution Volume Rendering. Master’s Thesis. Summer Term 2012.
- Henning Gründl. Time-Varying Parallel Coordination. Master’s Thesis. Summer Term 2012.
- Mathias Schneider. Accelerated Ray Tracing via 4D Ray Classification. Master’s Thesis. Winter Term 2011/2012.
- Steffen Coriand. Visual exploration of digital immunohistochemical specimens. Master’s thesis. Winter term 2011/2012.
- Philip Ewerling. A novel processing pipeline for optical multi-touch surfaces. Master’s thesis. Winter term 2011/2012.
- Fabian Loose. Pairwise authorship verification of short texts. Master’s Thesis. Summer Term 2011.
- Jan-Michel Strehlow. A Locally Affine Registration for Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Images of the Lung. Master’s Thesis. Winter Term 2010/2011.
- Markus Hartleb. ViSPaSim – Virtual Spray Paint Simulation. Master’s Thesis. Winter Term 2010/2011.
- Robert Dünger. 5D ray tracing on modern multi-core systems. Master’s thesis. Winter term 2009/2010.
- Martin Reichl. Out-of-Core Raytracing Using Hierarchical Levels of Detail. Master’s Thesis. Winter Term 2009/2010.
- Saskia Groenewegen. Procedural City Layout Generation Based on Urban Land Use Models. Master’s Thesis. Winter Term 2008/2009.
Diploma Theses
- Anne Köpsel. Investigations into visual acuity in the peripheral visual field – horizontally, vertically and in real depth. Diploma Thesis. Winter Term 2009/2010.
- Manuel Gleisberg. Interaction on a multi-user stereo projection screen. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2009.
- Nils Gründl. Context extension for multi-touch tabletops. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2009.
- Stefanie Heinz. Investigations into the transferability of learned action sequences from virtual environments to real-life everyday situations. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2009.
- Verena Skuk. A study on the perception and effects of chromatic and achromatic reflections in the windscreen. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2009.
- Stephan Beck. Investigations into improving the refresh rate through hardware-assisted depth image wrapping. Diploma Thesis. Winter Term 2008/2009.
- Petros Kapakos. Multimodal Interaction with Voice Input and Pointing Operations for Virtual Environments. Diploma Thesis. Winter Term 2008/2009.
- Tim Gollub. Methods for Modelling Document Clustering. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2008.
- Nicolai Marquardt. Developer Toolkit and Utilities for Rapidly Prototyping Distributed Physical User Interfaces. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2008.
- Andreas-Christoph Bernstein. Alternative scene graph concepts. Diploma Thesis. Winter Term 2007/2008.
- Mario Humberto and Urbina Cazenave. Design and evaluation of dwell-time-free eye-typing interfaces. Diploma Thesis. Winter Term 2007/2008.
- Christoph Sladeczek. Investigations into user-specific optimisation of wavefield synthesis. Diploma Thesis. Winter Term 2007/2008.
- Martin Scheffler. Object-Capability Security in Virtual Environments. Diploma Thesis. Winter Term 2007/2008.
- André Kunert. Comparison of actuator-based and tracking-based input using bimanual input systems for complex interaction in virtual three-dimensional environments. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2007.
- Robert Lernhardt. Orthogonal gradient-based networking with R-functions. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2007.
- Patrick Riehmann. Automatic layout of Sankey diagrams. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2007.
- Malte Heinbockel. Design and Prototype Implementation of an Application for a Digital Map and Analysis Table. Diploma Thesis. Winter Term 2006/2007.
- Sebastian Schmidt. Realistic facial expressions and animation for real-time applications. Diploma Thesis. Winter Term 2006/2007.
- Kristin Bachmann. Visualization of data uncertainties. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2006.
- Sebastian Derkau. Interactive cutting of parametric surfaces. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2006.
- Timo Göttel. ProBoNO: Transferring Knowledge of Virtual Environments to Real-World Situations. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2006.
- Sebastian Knödel. Initial value analysis of the Newton method for ray-casting parametric surfaces. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2006.
- Daniela Krause. Effects of person-, space- and object-oriented control on object manipulation in virtual environments. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2006.
- Marion Kulig. Intrinsic plagiarism detection using a collection of articles as an example. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2006.
- Kai Riege. Multi-user interaction in a projection-based two-viewer system. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2006.
- Robert Scheibe. Tactile feedback in immersive environments. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2006.
- Jonas Schild. Pen-based input systems in a commercial edutainment product. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2006.
- Hendrik Schneider. Tactile Pointer: Design, implementation and evaluation of a wearable input device with tactile feedback. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2006.
- Christoph Toll. Real-time visualisation of the reflective behaviour of fabrics. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2006.
- Emanuel Züger. VisualSequencer – An intermodal user concept for computer-aided music composition. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2006.
- Benjamin Schmidt. Cad2Visual: Interactive generation of artistic and technical illustrations. Diploma Thesis. Winter Term 2005/2006.
- Carlo Moritz Göllner. Interactive visualisation of simulated non-woven fabrics. Diploma thesis. Summer term 2005.
- Sebastian Heymann. Implementation and evaluation of video feature tracking on modern graphics hardware. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2005.
- Kristian Hildebrand. Rendering and Reconstruction of Astronomical Objects. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2005.
- Christoph von Hunnius. Depth Perception of Real and Virtual Objects. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2005.
- Markus Möhring. Pseudo-physical interaction with a virtual vehicle interior in immersive environments. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2005.
- Henrik Thoms. Combination of Two Methods for the Automatic Segmentation of the Myocardium in Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Diploma Thesis. Summer Term 2005.