Available theses, research and artistic projects, and student jobs that are offered by our research group are listed below. Please get in touch with the named contact person if you are interested in one of the available topics. Please include a statement of interest, curriculum vitae, and transcripts in your application.
The T/D/E column indicates the balance between Theory, Development, and Evaluation work.
Master Thesis
| Subject | Focus | T/D/E | Status | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Silent Spaces in VR | Design | 40/40/20 | in progress | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| Virtual Acoustics Lab: Audio Game Engines in VR | Design | 20/50/30 | in progress | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| Interactive Touch Sound Effects for Mixed Reality | Technical | 30/50/20 | in progress | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| Real-time Artificial Reverberation for Coupled Room | Technical | 20/50/30 | in progress | Karolina Prawda |
| Ambisonics reproduction in different rooms | Technical | 40/40/20 | open | Nils Meyer-Kahlen |
| Artificial Reverberation for 6DoF Augmented Reality | Technical | 40/40/20 | open | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| Interactive Sound Synthesis for Virtual Reality | Technical | 30/40/30 | open | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| Mixed Reality Auditory Perception | Perceptual | 30/40/30 | open | Nils Meyer-Kahlen |
| Continuation Methods for Modal Analysis | Technical | 70/20/10 | open | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| Sound in Collaborative Virtual Environments | Technical | 40/40/20 | open | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| Room Acoustics in WebAudio and WebXR | Technical | 40/40/20 | open | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| On Perceptually Colorless Artificial Reverberation | Technical | 70/20/10 | completed | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| Evaluation of Sound Scattering in 6DoF VR | Technical | 40/40/20 | completed | Stefan Wirler |
| Breathe in, breathe out : augmented reality murals as a tool for extended storytelling narratives | Artistic | 40/40/20 | completed | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| An analysis of empowering the audience in immersive performance – Take Pipa as an example | Artistic | 40/40/20 | completed | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| Exploring the narrative possibilities of audio augmented reality with six degrees of freedom | Artistic | 40/40/20 | completed | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
Student Jobs
| Subject | Focus | T/D/E | Status | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spatial Audio Plugins for Unity and Wwise | Software | 20/60/20 | completed | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| Photogrammetry of Acoustics Labs | 3D Model | 20/60/20 | completed | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| Virtual Planetarium: Unity for VR | Unity | 20/60/20 | completed | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| Virtual Planetarium: Sound Design and Composition | Sound | 20/60/20 | completed | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
Research and Artistic Projects
| Subject | Focus | T/D/E | Status | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building a Mixed-Order Loudspeaker | Technical | 20/50/30 | in progress | Nils Meyer-Kahlen |
| Where are you in the room? | Perceptual | 20/50/30 | in progress | Nils Meyer-Kahlen |
| Encyclopedia of Artificial Reverberators | Technical | 20/50/30 | in progress | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| Distributed Wireless Microphone Arrays with Raspberry Pi | Technical | 20/50/30 | open | Georg Götz |
| Hide and seek - VR Audio Multiplayer Game for Oculus Quest | Design | 20/60/20 | open | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| VR Avatars - Audio-Visual Spatial Capturing of an Actor | Design | 20/60/20 | open | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| In-out/out-in: Sound Piece for Mixed-Order Loudspeaker | Artistic | 30/50/20 | open | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| Altered Space: Sound Piece for Virtual Acoustics | Artistic | 30/50/20 | open | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| Sound of Self in Virtual Reality | Artistic | 30/50/20 | open | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| Headphones for Mixed Reality | Technical | 20/40/40 | open | Nils Meyer-Kahlen |
| Auditorily-Induced Vection in VR | Perceptual | 20/60/20 | open | Thomas McKenzie |
| Silence in Noise - Hermetic Sound Sculpture | Artistic | 20/60/20 | open | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| Time-Varying Feedback Systems | Technical | 20/60/20 | open | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| Building a DIY AR Glass and Testing Audio Augmentation | Technical | 20/50/30 | open | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| Implementation of Scattering Delay Networks | Technical | 20/50/30 | completed | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| Near-Field Binaural Rendering | Technical | 20/50/30 | completed | Sebastian J. Schlecht |
| Implementation of a MIMO Time-varying Convolution | Technical | 10/80/10 | completed | Thomas McKenzie |
Initiative project proposal in the area of spatial audio and virtual reality can be sent to Prof. Sebastian J. Schlecht