Possible Bachelor and Master thesis projects
In general you can get a good idea of the kind of research we do by looking through this website and reading our recent publications. For a current list of possible thesis topics, please email Prof. Wallis directly.
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 | Reordering of timing in serial collisions – a perceptual effect? | Dedina, Cara | B.Sc. |
Prof. Thomas Wallis, Lina Eicke-Kanani, M.Sc. |
| 2025 | Empirical Study On Subjective Listening Comfort Using An Adaptive Frequency Filtering Procedure | Buß, Matthias | B.Sc. |
Prof. Loes van Dam Lina Eicke-Kanani, M.Sc. |
| 2025 | Predictive and Retrospective Components in the Perception of Causality | Maninger, Lukas | M.Sc. |
Prof. Thomas Wallis Lina Eicke-Kanani, M.Sc. |
| 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