Projects

We offer student projects (Master thesis, Bachelor thesis or Master group project) in the broad fields of 3D computer graphics, geometry processing, scientific visualization, interactive data visualization and visual analytics. The primary goal of these projects is to create new opportunities for students to learn new graphics and visualization techniques and get experience with different programming tools.

• We expect you to be self-driven, motivated and work independently, as well as that you lead and own your project. We support you with ideas and feedback and try to answer any questions that you may have. Ultimately, you have to make your project successful.
• Make sure you select a project that you are really interested in and that you can master successfully.
• Some experimental evaluation of the project results is commonly required. The evaluation may consist of quantitative or qualitative results and comparisons, demonstrating improved performance (in time or memory usage), novel functionality (previously not possible) or improved applicability (through case and user studies).
• The project report/thesis will be written in Latex, using the provided templates.
• The deliverables of projects and thesis commonly include:
  • the structured and commented code (versioned in the IfI GitLab),
  • the written thesis or a project report (digital as well as one textile-bound paper print),
  • a midterm and a final presentation in VMML group meetings (including the sources of the slide set),
  • visual examples demonstrating the capabilities of the software (video demonstrating the use cases and capabilities of any software generating a visual output, i.e., the output is some interactive graphics rendering or data visualization).

We thank you for your interest and we are looking forward to work with enthusiastic students.

The exemplary projects shown below are a temporary snapshot, these topics are changing continuously and closely related topics can also be defined anew. Hence these or very similar topics are commonly availalbe or can be defined for interested and skilled students. The scope of the topic can often be adjusted, e.g. for Bachelor or Master thesis, or Master group projects.

When contacting us, it is helpful to know your specific prior expertise and programming skills related to a certain topic. A very short summary or CV can be helpful for that, including why you would be a good fit for the project and what related courses or projects you haven taken with us or in closely related areas.

To support the topic selection and getting in contact with us, review and send us this completed form: Project Inquiry Form (PDF, 189 KB)

Past Projects

For working on a project, students are required to follow the following steps:

1. Choose your topic of interest (.e.g. from below) and discuss it with the mentoring assitant and/or supervisor.
2. Fill out and sign the appropriate official registration form from the IfI websites (BSc forms and regulations, MSc forms and regulations) and hand it to the assistant or supervisor. Also review the official guidelines and regulations for your module type.
3. Read and follow the instructions given in
   General VMML Student Project Guildelines (PDF, 145 KB)

For the generation of a Bachelor or Master thesis, or a technical project report, the following structure, formatting and typesetting rules must be followed:

• Student Thesis and Project Report LaTeX Template (PDF, 1 MB) PDF file
• Student Thesis and Project Report LaTeX Template (ZIP, 2 MB) ZIP file

So what is a (Diploma) Thesis? (PDF, 148 KB)

How to write a Visualization Paper (PDF, 126 KB)

How to read a Visualization Paper (PDF, 2 MB)