The current funding for ATHENE (BMBF and HMWK) and further third party funded projects (e.g. from BMBF, BSI, industry) allows us to
Lydia Alapatt successfully defended her master’s thesis
On September 15th, Lydia Alapatt successfully defended her Master’s Thesis titled: „Face Recognition with Vision-Language Models: Prompt-Based Multimodal Fusion Guided
Lili Peter successfully defended her bachelor’s thesis
On July 14th, 2026, Lili Peter successfully defended her Bachelor’s thesis titled „Evaluation of Vision Language Models on Identity Verification
Oussama Raslan successfully defended his bachelor’s thesis
On June 23, 2026, Oussama Raslan successfully defended his Bachelor’s thesis titled „Analyse zur Verfügbarkeit von biometrischen Ausweisdokumenten im Internet“
Frederik Ubbesen successfully defended his master thesis
On July 6, 2026, Frederik Ubbesen successfully defended his Master’s thesis titled „Secure Multimodal Biometric Verification Using IoM Hashing and
Luca Saladino successfully defended his master thesis
Luca Saladino successfully defended his Master’s thesis titled „Skin Tone Estimation for Performance Differential Analysis in Biometric Systems.“ This is
Vasileios Makris successfully defended his master thesis
Vasileios Makris successfully defended his master thesis titled: „Applying Semantic Segmentation to Explain Face Recognition“ Abstract Deep learning face verification
Javad Rzayev successfully defended his Master Thesis
Javad Rzayev successfully defended his Master Thesis „Deep Learning-based Face Image Quality Assessment“ Abstract Getting into phones, crossing borders, checking
Jin Zhuotong successfully defended his Master thesis
Jin Zhuotong successfully defended his Master’s thesis titled „IdentityPreserving Iris Image Generation Using Generative Methods.“ This is a joint effort
Qingwen Zeng successfully defended his Master thesis
Qingwen Zeng successfully defended his Master’s thesis titled „Presentation Attack Detection on ID Documents Using Multimodal Model.“ This is a joint
Paul Andreas successfully defended his Master’s thesis
Paul Andreas successfully defended his Master’s thesis on „Assessing Lossy Image Compression for Face Recognition“ as part of the TeleTrusT