Master thesis Status: available Supervisors: Martin Kampel, Irene Ballester Context This thesis tackles a real-world archaeological challenge in collaboration with the Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI) and Archaeological Park Carnuntum. You’ll develop computational methods to analyze a large collection of Roman pottery drawings from Carnuntum, one of the most important Roman sites along the Danube frontier (1st-4th … Continue reading Feature Learning and Clustering for Archaeological Pottery Typology →

Diplomarbeit/Master thesis Supervisor: Martin Kampel Status: open Motivation Real estate management systems like metamagix.ICRS handle increasingly complex and diverse data streams, including rent rolls, accounting data, contracts, and unstructured documents. Traditional data processing methods often struggle with the heterogeneity of this information, leading to inefficiencies in data classification, normalization, and analysis. The initial implementation of RAG … Continue reading Enhancing RAG/LLM Solutions for Real Estate Data Processing →

Supervisors: Florian Kleber, Christian Stippel Status: taken Problem Statement Historical images, such as digitized photographs, manuscripts, maps, or scientific records, often suffer from degradation due to aging, storage conditions, or limitations in early imaging technologies. Common degradations include noise, fading, blur, physical damage, and low resolution. These artifacts hinder the readability, analysis, and digital preservation … Continue reading Image Restoration Using Deep Learning →

Project/Bachelor thesis Supervisor: Martin Kampel Status: open MotivationAutomated recognition of visual symbols is a central topic across many application areas, including intelligent goods tracking, digital marketing, and the protection of intellectual property and trademark rights. Symbol recognition is also particularly relevant in identifying extremist symbols (e.g., Nazi symbols or terrorist organization logos) on digital platforms for … Continue reading Symbol Recognition in Images and Videos – Robust Methods for Complex Scenarios →

Supervisors: Florian Kleber Status: open Before digital indexing any documentation in Vienna was stored on handwritten papers (little use of typewriters before 1930s). The  University Library (Former Central Library of Austria-Hungary) has – documents over 250 years of science history These are currently inaccessible due to size and lack of indexing, and thus ~ 1.14 … Continue reading Indexing Libraries – Indexing Heritage →