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Temporary arrangements during the "Corona closure" of TUM

  • At MMK, almost all work can be done remotely, and in most cases, the processing of the work is not limited.
  • Until further notice the final presentations will be held via meet.lrz.de.
  • If final theses cannot be completed on time due to the current situation, please inform the Student Services Office of the Department via your advisor.
  • Applications for Bachelor's or Master's theses are sent by the advisor to the Student Services Office of the Department by email.
    If the signatures of the student and/or examiner cannot be on the application, then the students and/or the examiner, if not the sender, will be put into CC, or the email communication of the student/advisor will be forwarded to the Student Services Office of the Department - this ensures that all parties involved agree with the topic, the beginning and the supervision of the thesis.
  • The submission can currently be done in a digital version including following dated and signed text:
    Declaration of the student: "Hereby I declare that I wrote the present thesis independently without using any sources or auxiliary means other than the ones indicated" and additionally "I hereby confirm that only this digital version is valid and will be graded. Further versions (digital or printed) will
    not be considered for grading"
    When submitting by email, it is important to ensure that at least two people have access to it.

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

Topics for Student Projects

Area: Computer Vision

Distracted Driver Dataset

Thema Distracted Driver Dataset
Typ Master
Betreuer Okan Köpüklü, M.Sc.
Tel.: +49 (0)89 289-28554
E-Mail: okan.kopuklu@tum.de
Sachgebiet Computer Vision
Beschreibung Motivation: According to the last National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) report, one in ten fatal crashes and two in ten injury crashes were reported as distracted driver crashes in the United State in 2014. Therefore detecting the drivers distraction state is utmost important to reduce driver-related accidents. For this task, properly annotated dataset for drivers actions observation is necessary. With such a dataset, state-of-the art Deep Learning Architectures can be used to recognize the distraction state of the drivers.

Task: The main task is to collect a “Distracted Driver Dataset”, and use a light-weight Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) architecture in order to detect driver’s distractive actions. The dataset should contain the following annotations:
1. Predefined distractive actions that the drivers do
2. Drivers hand states (whether they are on the wheel or not)

During the thesis, the following steps will be followed in general:
1. State-of-the-art research
2. Dataset collection and preparation (i.e. labeling and formating)
3. Light-weight CNN Architecture design
4. Evaluation of the CNN Architecture on the prepared dataset
5. Demonstration of the working system

References:
[1] Baheti, B., Gajre, S., & Talbar, S. (2018). Detection of Distracted Driver using Convolutional Neural Network. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (pp. 1032-1038).
[2] Hssayeni, M. D., Saxena, S., Ptucha, R., & Savakis, A. (2017). Distracted driver detection: Deep learning vs handcrafted features. Electronic Imaging, 2017(10), 20-26.
[3] G. Borghi, E. Frigieri, R. Vezzani and R. Cucchiara, "Hands on the wheel: A Dataset for Driver Hand Detection and Tracking," 2018 13th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition (FG 2018), Xi'an, 2018, pp. 564-570.
Voraussetzung 1. Excellent coding skills, preferable in Python
2. Experience in deep learning frameworks, preferably in Torch/PyTorch
3. Motivation to work on deep learning.
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.

Real-time Detection and classification of Dynamic Hand Gestures

Thema Real-time Detection and classification of Dynamic Hand Gestures
Typ Forschungspraxis, Masterarbeit
Betreuer Okan Köpüklü, M.Sc.
Tel.: +49 (0)89 289-28554
E-Mail: okan.kupuklu@tum.de
Sachgebiet Computer Vision
Beschreibung Motivation :Detection and classification of dynamic hand gestures is a challenging task since there is no indication when an action starts in a video stream. However, most of the deep learning architectures which are working offline can also function online with proper adjustments. The topic of this thesis is convert an offline-working architecture to an online-working one.
Task : The main task is to bring an already working deep architecture, which can be seen below, to online functionality. Details of the architecture can be found in [1].
As a further reading, [2] also provides a detailed online detection architecture.


References :
[1] O. Köpüklü, N. Köse, and G. Rigoll. Motion fused frames: Data level fusion strategy for hand gesture recognition. arXiv preprint, arXiv:1804.07187, 2018.
[2] P. Molchanov, X. Yang, S. Gupta, K. Kim, S. Tyree, and J. Kautz. Online detection and classification of dynamic hand gestures with recurrent 3d convolutional neural network. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages 4207–4215, 2016.
Voraussetzung 1. Excellent coding skills in Python,
2. Experience in deep learning frameworks, preferably in Torch/PyTorch.
3. Motivation to work on deep learning.
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.

A New Method to Generate Hidden Markov Model Topology

Thema A New Method to Generate Hidden Markov Model Topology
Typ Masterarbeit
Betreuer Lujun Li, M.Sc.
Tel.: +49 (0)89 289-28543
E-Mail: lujun.li@tum.de
Sachgebiet Computer Vision
Beschreibung Motivation : For decades, acoustic models in speech recognition systems pivot on Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), e.g., Gaussian Mixture Model-HMM system and Deep Neural Network-HMM system, and achieve a series of impressive performance. At present, the most widely-employed HMM topology is 3-state left-to-right architecture. However, there is no adamant evidence for its suitability and superiority, reflecting the deficiency of the research into HMM topology. We propose an innovative technique to customize an individual HMM topology for each phoneme, and achieve great results in monophone system. The topic of this thesis is to apply it in triphone system.
Task : The main task is to transfer an already working deep architecture from monophone system to triphone system. Overall, the following steps will be followed during the thesis:
1. State-of-the-art research
2. Understanding the already working deep architecture
3. Implementing the algorithm in triphone system
4. Evaluation of the architecture on Tedliumv2 corpus
5. Demonstration of the working system
Voraussetzung 1. Background knowledge in speech signal processing or natural language processing.
2. Excellent coding skills, preferable in C++ & Python.
3. Experience in deep learning frameworks, preferably in Torch/PyTorch & Tensorflow.
4. Experience in Kaldi toolkits is a big bonus.
5. Motivation to work on deep learning.
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.
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