Possible Bachelor and Master thesis projects
As of December 2023 we specifically offer theses connected to the following topics:
- Perception and simple generative models of visual scenes
- Adaptive experiments/sampling
- Causal impressions in and modeling of launching events
- Visual search in cluttered scenes
You can find more detailed information in the slides attached below. Please don't hesitate to also contact us with any other topics you would be interested in studying.
Presentation of theses topics from December 2023 (opens in new tab)
Previous projects
| Year | Title | Author | Degree | Supervision |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Bayesian statistical models of visual orientation perception in analogue report tasks | Wicka, Lou | B.Sc. |
Prof. Thomas Wallis Yunyan Duan, PhD |
| 2025 | The effect of framerate on visual motion perception | Lupan, Felix | M.Sc. |
Prof. Thomas Wallis Yunyan Duan, PhD |
| 2025 | 3D Scene Metamers: Using physically-based differentiable rendering to probe vision models for scene understanding | Beilharz, Benjamin | M.Sc. |
Prof. Justus Thies Prof. Thomas Wallis |
| 2025 | A quantitative analysis of image statistics in dead leaves images | Fabritz, Ole | B.Sc. |
Prof. Thomas Wallis Swantje Mahncke, M.Sc. |
| 2025 | Eye movement patterns in the disambiguation of Mooney images | Bechert, Juliane | B.Sc. |
Prof. Thomas Wallis Swantje Mahncke, M.Sc. |
| 2025 | How Prior Knowledge Level and Modality Shape Object Recognition in Mooney Images: A Drawing-Based Experiment | Neubert, Anna | B.Sc. |
Prof. Thomas Wallis Rabea Turon, M.Sc. |
| 2024 | Impact of Gaze-Aware Image Compression on Image Quality | Vo, Thi | M.Sc. |
Prof. Thomas Wallis Yunyan Duan, PhD |
| 2024 | Train Timetable Rescheduling Using Machine Learning: Towards Generalisabilty over Railway Infrastructure and Timetable | Weber, Jonah | B.Sc. |
Dr. Arturo Crespp Swantje Mahncke, M.Sc. |
| 2024 | Creating ambiguous Mooney images using contour disruption | Matthies, Thabo | M.Sc. |
Prof. Thomas Wallis Rabea Turon, M.Sc. |
| 2024 | Correlation of scene categories | Graf, Felix | B.Sc. |
Prof. Thomas Wallis Swantje Mahncke, M.Sc. |
| 2024 | Searching for shapes in a crowded visual search task: An analysis using probabilistic hierarchical models | Kolvenbach, Moritz | B.Sc. |
Prof. Thomas Wallis Yunyan Duan, PhD |
| 2024 | From predictions of moving trajectories to subjective impressions of causality | Rosenberger, Lukas | B.Sc. |
Prof. Thomas Wallis Lina Eicke-Kanani, M.Sc. |
| 2024 | What did perception evolve to do? New approaches to test the interface theory of perception | Gerlach, Niklas | B.Sc. |
Prof. Thomas Wallis Yunyan Duan, PhD |
| 2024 | Deep adaptive design for psychophysics | Neumann, Jonas | B.Sc. |
Prof. Thomas Wallis Rabea Turon, M.Sc. |
| 2024 | A neural style transfer approach to studying scene perception | Goerke, Laura | M.Sc. |
Prof. Thomas Wallis Dr. Albon Flachot |
| 2024 | A Bayesian population coding model of anisotropies in orientation perception | Kühn, Adrian | M.Sc. |
Prof. Thomas Wallis Dr. Will Harrison |
| 2023 | A psychophysical evaluation of techniques for Mooney image generation | Reining, Lars | B.Sc. |
Prof. Thomas Wallis Yunyan Duan, PhD |
| 2023 | Human Similarity Judgements and their Representation in Psychological Space | Willkomm, Hannah | B.Sc. |
Prof. Thomas Wallis Prof. Frank Jäkel |
| 2023 | Orientation bar code structures in facial emotion recognition | Schlink, Martin | B.Sc. |
Prof. Thomas Wallis Rabea Turon, M.Sc. |
| 2023 | Influence of Top-Down Scene Understanding on Sensitivity to Local Natural Image Structures | Hartmann, Ruth | B.Sc. |
Prof. Thomas Wallis Yunyan Duan, PhD |
| 2023 | Supramodal regularities of human visual behavior | Fabian, Thomas | M.Sc. |
Prof. Thomas Wallis Prof. Thomas Weitin |
| 2023 | Coherent dead leaves: Measuring precision and response time for detecting coherent structure in the presence of clutter and partial occlusion | Riether, Christian | B.Sc. |
Prof. Thomas Wallis Yunyan Duan, PhD |
Prior to 2019 (mostly at the Uni Tübingen)
- Semantic and Contextual Influences on Peripheral Visual Sensitivity
- Predicting gaze position of humans watching videos
- Hole-in-the-wall: Comparing humans and deep neural networks in a spatial reasoning task
- A tutorial on Bayesian analysis of psychophysical data using Hierarchical models
- Using confidence reports to distinguish between (non) perceptual aftereffects
- Convolutional Neural Networks Represent Similar Mid-level Visual Features as the Ventral Visual Stream
- Distinguishing perceptual from decisional processes using confidence
- Comparing gamma calibration methods of PsychToolbox and PsychoPy
- Modelling classification images using Generalized Linear Models