Student research projects
At MMK, almost all work can be done remotely, and in most cases, the processing of the work is not limited.
There are always topics for student research projects here at MMK (Bachelor's and Master's thesis, Research Internship, IDP).
When you have found a topic please contact the scientific assistant. If there is no suitable topic, please contact an assistant to get one.
Ingenieurpraxis: The aim of the Ingenieurpraxis is to have a look into the processes in the industry. For this reason we don't offer some Ingenieurpraxis here at MMK, but it is possible to supervise you if you find a position in a company.
Additionally, we do not offer any internships to students from outside TUM. Because of the volume of requests we receive, it is not possible for us to answer all emails with internship requests.
Current appointments of the MMK student research project talks
Empirische Forschung im Bereich Virtual Reality
| Thema | Empirische Forschung im Bereich Virtual Reality |
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| Typ | Forschungspraxis (FP), Interdisziplinäres Projekt (IDP) |
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Maximilian Rettinger, M.Sc. E-Mail: maximilian.rettinger@tum.de |
| Sachgebiet | Virtual Reality |
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Am Lehrstuhl für Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation haben Sie ab sofort die Möglichkeit, sich für ein Interdisziplinäres Projekt (IDP) oder eine Forschungspraxis (FP) im Bereich Virtual Reality zu bewerben. Hierfür gibt es verschiedene Themen, welche Sie mit dem Betreuer besprechen können. Zudem besteht die Möglichkeit, bestimmte Themen in Teamarbeit mit Ihren Kommilitonen zu erforschen. |
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| Bewerbung | Wenn Sie Interesse an einem Thema aus diesem Bereich haben, senden Sie bitte eine E-Mail an die oben angegebene Adresse. Diese sollte Folgendes enthalten: Motivation, bisherige Erfahrung, Starttermin, Lebenslauf und Zeugnis bzw. Transcript of Records. |
Improving Speech Enhancement GAN with SincNet
| Topic | Improving Speech Enhancement GAN with SincNet |
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| Typ | Research Internship (FP), Master's Thesis (MA) |
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Lujun Li, M.Eng. E-Mail: lujun.li@tum.de |
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Motivation: The goal of speech enhancement is to improve the quality and intelligibility of speech which are degraded by background noise. There exists a class of generative methods relying on GANs, which have been demonstrated to be efficient for speech enhancement. Using GANs, speech enhancement has been done using raw waveform input. CNNs are the best candidate for processing raw speech samples; however, one of the most critical parts of current waveform-based CNNs is the first convolutional layer. This layer not only deals with high-dimensional inputs, but it is also more affected by vanishing gradient problems, especially when employing very deep architectures. To tackle this problem, SincNet, a novel convolutional architecture, is proposed, adding some constraints on the filter shape. Task: The main task is to replace the CNN architecture of SEGAN [1] with the SincNet architecture [2]. Overall, the following steps will be followed during the thesis:
References: [1] Pascual, Santiago, Antonio Bonafonte, and Joan Serra. "SEGAN: Speech enhancement generative adversarial network." arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.09452 (2017). [2] Ravanelli, Mirco, and Yoshua Bengio. "Speaker recognition from raw waveform with sincnet." 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT). IEEE, 2018. |
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| Application | If you are interested in working in the promising field of artificial intelligence and more specifically, speech signal processing, we welcome the applications via the email address above. Please specify the topic in the email subject, e.g. Masterarbeit/Forschungspraxis application for topic ‘XYZ’, while emphasizing your previous project experience and ideal starting date. Please also attach your recent CV and the transcript. |
Joint training of speech enhancement and speech recognition
| Topic | Joint training of speech enhancement and speech recognition |
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| Typ | Research Internship (FP), Master's Thesis (MA) |
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Lujun Li, M.Eng. E-Mail: lujun.li@tum.de |
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Motivation: Recently, end-to-end neural networks have made significant breakthroughs in the field of speech recognition, challenging the dominance of DNN-HMM hybrid architectures. However, speech inputs for ASR systems are generally interfered by various background noises and reverberations in realistic environments, leading to the dramatic performance degradation. To alleviate this issue, the mainstream approach is to use a well-designed speech enhancement module as the front-end of ASR. However, enhancement modules would result in speech distortions and mismatches to training, which sometimes degrades the ASR performance. Therefore, integrating the speech enhancement and end-to-end recognition network via jointly training is a promising research field. Task: The main task is to improve an already working joint training pipeline, which can be seen below, with state-of-the-art feature extraction methods, speech enhancement algorithms and speech recognition algorithms. Details of the architecture can be found in [1]. As a future reading, [2] also provides a detailed explanation of the integration of speech enhancement and speech recognition.  References:
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| Application | If you are interested in working in the promising field of artificial intelligence and more specifically, speech signal processing, we welcome the applications via the email address above. Please specify the topic in the email subject, e.g. Masterarbeit/Forschungspraxis application for topic ‘XYZ’, while emphasizing your previous project experience and ideal starting date. Please also attach your recent CV and the transcript. |
End-to-End Pose-Based Gait Recognition with Graph Neural Networks
| Thema | End-to-End Pose-Based Gait Recognition with Graph Neural Networks |
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| Typ | Master's Thesis |
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Torben Teepe, M.Sc. E-Mail: t.teepe@tum.de |
| Sachgebiet | Computer Vision |
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Motivation: Skeleton-based approaches have shown excellent results in understanding human action [1] and recognizing human gait. Current methods require a two-stage architecture (see Fig. 1): 1. Human Pose Estimation, 2. Graph Convolutional Neural Network. In this work, we want to explore the possibilities of a single-stage, graph-based approach. A single-stage architecture can be archived using a keypoint detector that feeds the pose data into a Graph Convolutional Network. Task: The task is to extend the CenterNet-based [2] architecture with a temporal Graph Convolutional Network for Gait Recognition. The architecture will then be evaluated and refined using standard Gait Recognition datasets. Once a decent performance is archived, the architecture can also be used for Action Recognition, Tracking, or Re-Identification.References: [1] Liu, Ziyu, et al. "Disentangling and Unifying Graph Convolutions for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition." Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 2020. [2] Duan, Kaiwen, et al. "CenterNet: Keypoint triplets for object detection." Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. 2019. |
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| Bewerbung | If you are interested in this topic, we welcome the applications via the email address above. Please set the email subject to " application for topic 'XYZ'", ex. "Master’s thesis application for topic 'XYZ'", while clearly specifying why are you interested in the topic in the text of the message. Also make sure to attach your most recent CV (if you have one) and grade report. |
Contrastive Learning for Open Set Recognition
| Thema | Contrastive Learning for Open Set Recognition |
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| Typ | Master |
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Okan Köpüklü, M.Sc. Tel.: +49 (0)89 289-28554 E-Mail: okan.kopuklu@tum.de |
| Sachgebiet | Computer Vision |
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Motivation: Contrastive learning have been actively used in unsupervised [1,2] and supervised [3] recognition tasks. A recent application [4] of contrastive learning for anomaly detection proved that it can be used for open set recognition tasks. In this thesis, the student will create contrastive learning algorithm and compare it with state-of-the-art approaches [5,6]. Task:There is already a contrastive learning framework written in PyTorch, which achieves similar results to state-of-the-art open set recognition algorithms. The student will work on this framewok, and advance it to outperform all other state-of-the-art algorithms. References: [1] Tian, Yonglong, Dilip Krishnan, and Phillip Isola. "Contrastive multiview coding." arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.05849 (2019). [2] Chen, Ting, et al. "A simple framework for contrastive learning of visual representations." arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.05709 (2020). [3] Khosla, Prannay, et al. "Supervised contrastive learning." arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.11362 (2020). [4] Köpüklü, Okan, et al. "Driver Anomaly Detection: A Dataset and Contrastive Learning Approach." arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.14660 (2020). [5] Neal, Lawrence, et al. "Open set learning with counterfactual images." Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV). 2018. [6] Oza, Poojan, and Vishal M. Patel. "C2ae: Class conditioned auto-encoder for open-set recognition." Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 2019. |
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1. Excellent coding skills, preferable in Python 2. Experience in deep learning frameworks, preferably in PyTorch |
| Bewerbung | If you are interested in this topic, we welcome the applications via the email address above. Please set the email subject to " application for topic 'XYZ'", ex. "Master’s thesis application for topic 'XYZ'", while clearly specifying why are you interested in the topic in the text of the message. Also make sure to attach your most recent CV (if you have one) and grade report. |
Video Action Recognition with Transformers
| Thema | Video Action Recognition with Transformers |
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| Typ | Forschungspraxis, Masterarbeit |
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Okan Köpüklü, M.Sc. Tel.: +49 (0)89 289-28554 E-Mail: okan.kupuklu@tum.de |
| Sachgebiet | Computer Vision |
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Motivation :Transformers have revolutionized the natural language processing tasks outperforming all other sequence-to-sequence learning algorithms. The paper ‘Attention Is All You Need’ [1] introduces a novel architecture called ‘Transformer’. Recently they have been used in computer vision tasks such as image recognition [2] and gesture recognition [3]. For action recognition task, they can still be used to improve state-of-the-art results. Task : The student will create a framework in Pytorch to extract frame-level features from video clips and to apply transformer for spatio-temporal modeling. The framework for feature extraction is already available [4]. Created final framework will be evaluated on major action and gesture recognition datasets such as Kinetics and Jester. References: [1] Vaswani, Ashish, et al. "Attention is all you need." Advances in neural information processing systems 30 (2017): 5998-6008. [2] Dosovitskiy, Alexey, et al. "An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale." arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.11929 (2020). [3] D'Eusanio, Andrea, et al. "A Transformer-Based Network for Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition." International Conference on 3D Vision. 2020. [4] Köpüklü, Okan, et al. "Dissected 3D CNNs: Temporal Skip Connections for Efficient Online Video Processing." arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.14639 (2020). |
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1. Excellent coding skills in Python, 2. Experience in deep learning frameworks, preferably in PyTorch. |
| Bewerbung | If you are interested in this topic, we welcome the applications via the email address above. Please set the email subject to “ application for topic 'XYZ'”, ex. “Master’s thesis application for topic 'XYZ'”, while clearly specifying why are you interested in the topic in the text of the message. Also make sure to attach your most recent CV (if you have one) and grade report. |