Thesis Proposals

Below you can find current thesis offerings of our group. If you’re interested in one of these proposals, please get in touch with the corresponding group member. If you would like to write your thesis in the area of one of our group’s research topics but do not find an interesting proposal below and have some own ideas, please get in touch with one of our group’s members.

⚠ Current information regarding COVID-19 ⚠

We still offer the possibility to conduct a thesis with our research group. The students have to work remotely and are supervised digitally.

Biometrics

• • Improving the Fairness of Biometric Recognition Systems, Bachelor-/ Master thesis, Jascha Kolberg
  • Sample Quality for Contactless Fingerprints, Bachelor-/ Master thesis, Christian Rathgeb, Jannis Priesnitz
  • Identity Preservation on Iris Images using GANs,– /Bachelor/ Master thesis, Juan Tapia
  • Develop a feature visualization framework for Morphing images – Bachelor/ Master thesis, Juan Tapia
  • Evaluating facial image quality scores as a workload-reduction strategy, Bachelor- / Master thesis,Daile Osorio-Roig, Torsten Schlett, Christian Rathgeb
  • Thermal image translation for face Presentation Attack Detection, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Lazaro J. Gonzalez-Soler
  • Meta Pseudo Labels for few-shot face Presentation Attack Detection, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Lazaro J. Gonzalez-Soler
  • GPU computing for accelerating the Fisher Vector computation, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Lazaro J. Gonzalez-Soler
  • Generative Adversarial Networks for Face Presentation Attack Detection, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Lazaro J. Gonzalez-Soler
  • Contactless Fingerprint Feature Extraction, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Jannis Priesnitz
  • Synthetic Fingerprint Generation, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Jannis Priesnitz
  • GAN-based contactless Fingerprint Generation, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Jannis Priesnitz
  • Score and Detection of Face Beautification images, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Juan Tapia
  • Generation of Uncontrolled Images for D-Morph scenarios using Conditional GANs, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Juan Tapia
  • Automatic pair selection images for face morphing using Mutual Information, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Juan Tapia
  • Emoji Face Recognition, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Christian Rathgeb
  • Explainable Differential Manipulation Detection, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Mathias Ibsen, Christian Rathgeb
  • Attacking Face Recognition Systems using Facial Masks, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Mathias Ibsen, Christian Rathgeb
  • Attacking Face Recognition with Textiles, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Christian Rathgeb, Mathias Ibsen
  • Human Detection of Manipulated Face Images, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Christian Rathgeb, Mathias Ibsen
  • Homomorphic Encryption for Biometric Template Protection, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Jascha Kolberg
  • Generative Adversarial Networks for Face Aging Simulation, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Marcel Grimmer (marceg@ntnu.no)
  • Machine Learning for Fingerprint Presentation Attack Detection, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Jascha Kolberg
  • Software-based Fingerprint Presentation Attack Detection, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Jascha Kolberg
  • Comparison of 2D to 3D touchless Fingerprint Processing, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Jannis Priesnitz
  • Presentation Attack Detection based on Fingerprint Videos, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Jannis Priesnitz
  • Ageing Effects in Fingerprint Recognition, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Jannis Priesnitz, Christian Rathgeb
  • Efficient Contact-less Multi-Finger Authentication, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Jannis Priesnitz, Christian Rathgeb
  • Compressed Face Image Quality Assessment, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Torsten Schlett
  • Face Image Quality Assessment Training based on EDC Oracles, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Torsten Schlett

Digital Forensics

• • Synthesis of benign / malicious network traffic, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Thomas Göbel
  • Extending a data synthesis framework for replaying network attacks, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Thomas Göbel
  • Analysis and Evaluation of suitable machine learning algorithms for network data reduction, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Thomas Göbel
  • Use of machine learning for forensic investigation of intercepted network traffic, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Thomas Göbel
  • File detection in network traffic using approximate matching, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Thomas Göbel
  • Reducing network data using similarity preserving hashing, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Thomas Göbel
  • Typical Internet user behavior (survey), Bachelor thesis, Thomas Göbel
  • Development of a network forensic guideline, Bachelor- / Master thesis, Thomas Göbel
  • Analysis and Evaluation of various network forensic tools and techniques (survey), Bachelor thesis, Thomas Göbel