Status: open Supervisor: Markus Diem, Florian Kleber, Stefan Fiel Text detection is a challenging task when it comes to natural scene images (think of windows or other architectural patterns which have similar properties as printed text). Moreover, if the degree of freedom is increased and rotated text needs to be detected too, simple line searching … Continue reading Text Detection in Natural Scene Images →

Status: open Supervisor: Markus Diem, Florian Kleber, Stefan Fiel Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is an open research topic because of the variety of modern, cursive handwriting. The goal – being able to automatically translate handwritten text into machine readable text – is attractive since HTR would render non-digital born documents accessible. The master thesis will … Continue reading Handwritten Text Recognition →

Status: closed Supervisor: Markus Diem nomacs – Image Lounge is a light-weight image viewer developed at CVL. It is written in C++ with Qt and OpenCV and published under GPL. Since two years, nomacs has a plugin system which allows for adding modules dedicated to specific tasks. In the last decade Deep Learning has proven … Continue reading Caffe nomacs Plugin →

Status: open Supervisor: Alois Paulin Problem Statement Competing technologies address the challenge to provide dynamic multi-stakeholder access tailored to fit the context of the request for data and the identity of the requester. This so-called fine-grained-access control can be utilised for disruptive governance technology allowing for low-level access to governance data. The objective of this study is to identify … Continue reading Comparison: Fine-Grained-Access Control to Governance Data in Relational Databases →

Status: open Supervisor: Alois Paulin Problem Statement e-Governance research and development activities are targeting an emerging trans-disciplinary field of science, which is yet in its pioneering stages. Technical contributions to this field are challenged by a lack of clarity of research directions and often take a following- rather than a leading role in the development of this field. A clearly structured research … Continue reading Classification System: Directions of e-Governance Research →

Status: open Supervisor: Alois Paulin Problem Statement Fair non-repudiation (FNR) is about ensuring communication between two participating parties in which each party can non-repudiably prove that the other party has participated in the message exchange. System-level support for such feature as of now does not yet exist. Goal The goal of the Master thesis is to develop a system service for a … Continue reading Development: Fair Non-Repudiation – System Integration →

Status: assigned Supervisors: Rainer Planinc, Sebastian Zambanini Problem Statement The frailty of elderly people is a big risk, when living independently. Frailty often leads to falls and injuries resulting from a fall. Hence, the level of frailty is an important indicator to assess the risk of falling and provide countermeasures already at an early stage. … Continue reading Frailty detection of elderly people →

Status: open Supervisors: Florian Kleber, Markus Diem, Stefan Fiel Problem Statement Analysis of the logical layout of documents allows for assigning the content of a document image into a marked-up electronic representation on which higher-level functionality, liked advanced searches (e.g. limiting search to titles, fetching all document images with one specific layout), can be developed. … Continue reading Document Understanding →

Status: open Supervisors: Florian Kleber, Markus Diem Problem Statement Documents can contain tables, which can be placed everywhere within a document page, and a have a regular structure. The detection and analyis of tables is a part of current Document Image Analysis (DIA) systems. The detection of tables is of interest, since tables normally contain specific … Continue reading Table Detection in Document Images →