Thesis Proposals

Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, Computer Graphics, and Human-Machine Interaction

    • Thesis with an external company or at Politecnico di Torino

      immersive technologies, vision and collaborative robotics for next-generation production lines

      The computer graphics and computer vision techniques are essential for the analysis and the visual representation of key information regarding the state of production processes. In processes that envisage a human intervention, e.g., in scenarios based on the use of collaborative robots (or cobots), they can support the identification and managements of defects and issues in general; they can additionally ...
    • Thesis with an external company or research center

      Virtual simulations and human-computer interfaces for advanced air mobility

      Several thesis proposals are available in the context of the "Centro Nazionale Mobilità Sostenibile" ("National Center for Sustainable Mobility"), in particular of the project "Air mobility" funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR). These proposal will concern the design and development of virtual simulations and human-computer interfaces for advanced air mobility, and could be developed in ...
    • Thesis with an external company or research center

      Generating 3D synthetic data to train AI algorithms for intelligent vehicle applications

      Supervisors: Fabrizio Lamberti
      The recognition of the vehicle’s owner or the person authorized to operate a given vehicle will be a challenge for future intelligent vehicle applications. Furthermore, the person to be recognized stands outside the car, in different and complex conditions (recognition in the “wild”): highly variable lighting, presence of other subjects, etc. Apart from the difficulty and complexity of the recognition ...
    • Thesis with an external company or at Politecnico di Torino

      Intelligent virtual humans

      Virtual humans (or digital humans) are simulations of human beings on computers, which are considered today a kind of commodity in movies, video games and the entertainment domain in general. In fact, virtual humans are getting commonplace in various industries and domains, from medicine, to film, fashion, education, automobile, telecommunications, etc. Depending on the application, various level of realisms ...
    • Thesis with an external company or at Politecnico di Torino

      Immersive driving simulations for autonomous vehicles and road users

      Autonomous vehicles are routinely advertized as the world-changing invention that will greatly impact people lives by, on the one hand, improving safety, reducing fuel consumption and decreasing urban infra-structure strains, and, on the other hand, freeing up huge amounts of time for their occupants, who will be allowed to read, consume, work, play, etc. Despite the enormous business opportunities, autonomous ...
    • Thesis with an external company or at Politecnico di Torino

      Serious games and virtual/augmented reality for emergency management

      Supervisors: Fabrizio Lamberti
      Several collaborations are in place with various institutions (Italian Airforce, Piedmont Region Civil Protection and Forest Firefighting Unit, Frejus Tunnel Authority, Fire and Rescue Department of the Savoy Region, France, etc.) involved in emergency management. In this context, a number of serious games and interactive experiences leveraging Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality have been ...
    • Thesis at Politecnico di Torino

      Virtual laboratories in eXtended Reality

      Supervisors: Fabrizio Lamberti
      A "virtual laboratory" is defined as an interactive environment that enables a group of researchers located around the world to work together for creating and conducting simulated experiments. Virtual laboratories are receiving an increasing attention also by the world of education, as they could represent the practical side of classes that are implemented today according to the e-learning paradigm. The latter ...
    • Thesis at Politecnico di Torino

      Cyber-sickness mitigation techniques in virtual scenarios

      Cyber-sickness is a disorder characterized by symptoms like nausea or discomfort, that can happen meanwhile or after using Virtual Reality (VR) technologies. Similarly to motion sickness, it is mainly caused by inconsistency between visual and aural stimuli from the simulated virtual environment and the expected feedback from the vestibular system. Several mitigation and prevention techniques have been proposed ...
    • Thesis at Politecnico di Torino

      Animating virtual characters into immersive environments

      Generating computer animations, particularly of virtual characters, is a very labor-intensive task, which requires animators to operate with sophisticated interfaces. Hence, researchers continuously experiment with alternative interaction paradigms that could possibly ease the above task. Among others, the use of Virtual represents a valid alternative to traditional interfaces (based on mouse and keyboards) ...
    • Thesis at Politecnico di Torino

      Experiencing past events through extended reality experiences in the Metaverse

      Extended reality applications are getting commonplace in several domains, ranging from entertainment to education. Moreover, the increasing interest in the Metaverse is attracting, more and more, the attention of researchers and companies. In the Metaverse, different communities can meet each other, with the aim of exchanging ideas or knowledge and working together on a given task. But what happens if someone ...
    • Thesis at Politecnico di Torino

      Extended reality (XR) for the cinema industry

      Extended Reality (XR) technologies, encompassing Virtual (VR), Augmented (AR) and Mixed (MR) Reality, are disrupting the way films are produced and viewed. Although these technologies are getting commonplace, they are presenting new, unexplored challenges to both the actors and final viewers. For instance, when motion capture (mocap) is used to record actors’ movements with the aim of animating digital ...
    • Thesis with an external company or research center

      Haptics in eXtended Reality experiences and Human-Robot Interaction

      Supervisors: Fabrizio Lamberti
      Several thesis proposals are available regarding the use of haptic feedback in Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality experiences. The proposals are in collaboration with different teams of the IRISA-Inria center at Rennes university and include an internship at their premises (http://www.irisa.fr/en/scientific-departments-irisa). Duration of the thesis/internship is approximately 5-6 months. ...
    • Thesis with an external company or research center

      3D Reconstruction and VR visualization of nuclear scattering events

      Supervisors: Fabrizio Lamberti
      Reconstruction of the complete kinematics of a collision between particles at accelerators is a fundamental step in the investigation of subtle processes hidden in the 10-15 m and 10-23 s space-time windows where the interaction takes place. The study of pion – Helium nucleus interaction at the temperature at which a transition phase from a bound nucleus to a gas of fermions is expected to occur is of high ...

Machine & Deep Learning, Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence

    • Thesis with an external company or research center

      Digital reconstruction of Egyptian archeological remains in fragmentary state

      Supervisors: Fabrizio Lamberti
      The aim of this thesis, to be developed in collaboration with the Egyptian Museum in Turin, is to develop an algorithm able to reconstruct in a digital way the fragments of archeological remains by analyzing the fracture surfaces of the single pieces. The algorithm could be first tested on a “modern” object reduced to pieces, and then applied to a use case to be agreed with the Museum (e.g., stone fragments ...
    • Thesis with an external company or research center

      Face identification and body pose estimation for intelligent vehicle applications

      Supervisors: Fabrizio Lamberti
      One of the challenges for future intelligent vehicle applications, will be to determine whether a person is authorized to operate the vehicle or not. The face is the most common identifier in humans. Face recognition is a biometric application to recognize and identify the facial patterns of the human faces. These facial patterns of persons are compared and extracted by their facial contours. Anyway, extraneous ...
    • Thesis with an external company or research center

      Generative techniques for high-resolution medical image synthesis

      Supervisors: Lia Morra
      This thesis falls within the activities of the AIBIBANK (Bio-Banking for Artificial Intelligence) project, carried out in collaboration with HealthTriage srl (I3P). The overarching goal is to develop artificial intelligence solution for the automated triage of digital mammography images in order to focus the radiologists’ attention to potentially normal cases. Since cancer is a rare disease, the dataset ...
    • Thesis with an external company or research center

      Information extraction from semi-structured documents

      The main goal of this thesis is to design and implement a proof of concept for extracting information items (such as date, gross amount, and tax code) from scanned semi-structured documents (invoices) in close collaboration with a leading insurance company. The proposed system will exploit recent advances in self-supervised vision-language-layout transformer models that can analyze each element based on their ...
    • Thesis with an external company or research center

      Deep language models for the insurance domain

      The ultimate goal of this activity is to explore the potential use of large language models (LLMs) and chatbots, such as GPT-2 and GPT-3, in the insurance domain. Multiple thesis are available to investigate one or more of the following topics: a) how to fine-tune an existing LLM, starting from open source and commercial solutions, to customize it for a target language (Italian) and domain (insurance/legal); b) ...
    • Thesis at Politecnico di Torino

      Controllable diffusion models for synthetic image generation

      Supervisors: Lia Morra
      Current social media generate a tremendous amount of visual material, that can be exploited by researchers operating in social media research, digital humanities, and marketing. However, privacy regulations impose significant restrictions to both data collection and sharing. The CAMOUFLAGE project, funded by the AI4Media European project, aims to exploit diffusion model (such as Stable Diffusion) to produce a ...
    • Thesis with an external company or research center

      Natural Language Processing, Digital Humans and Conversational Interfaces

      Supervisors: Fabrizio Lamberti
      Two thesis proposals are available in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Humans, to be developed in collaboration with Reply Spa. The aim of the first thesis work is to create synthetic avatars to be included in the metaverse and in business contexts; the plan is to use Natural Language Processing (NLP) via tools like DialogFlow and GPT3 to make the conversation on a given topic/subject natural, ...
    • Thesis with an external company or research center

      Self-supervised learning and computer vision for robotic tasks

      Supervisors: Fabrizio Lamberti
      Two thesis proposals in collaboration with Reply Spa are available in the context of self-supervised learning (SSL) and computer vision applied to mobile robots. In particular, the aim of the first thesis work is to develop new methods of SSL in computer vision in order to minimize the bottlenecks and problems of the classical methods of supervised and unsupervised learning. The goal is to adopt and improve ...
    • Thesis at Politecnico di Torino

      Integrating high-level semantics and deep learning for image understanding

      Artificial Intelligence agents are required to learn from their surroundings and to reason about the knowledge that has been learned in order to make decisions. While state-of-the-art deep learning typically uses distributed representations, reasoning is normally useful at a higher level of abstraction. As a result, attempts at combining symbolic AI and neural computation into neural-symbolic systems have been ...
    • Thesis at Politecnico di Torino

      Quantitative analysis of face representations in the digital era

      Multiple thesis projects are available within the context of an EU-funded project dedicated to investigating the meaning of the face in present-day digital cultures following a cross-disciplinary approach and in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team. The project focuses on how users represent their identity in the digital world and in particular on social networks. Other sources of images that may be ...
    • Thesis at Politecnico di Torino

      Computer vision techniques for mobile testing

      Many End-to-End (E2E) testing tools allow developers to create repeatable test scripts that mimic a human user's interaction with the application and evaluate its response. Various paradigms of testing tools have been defined that are differentiated based upon the way the widgets are located on the GUI (e.g., text, images, layout properties). This thesis falls within the visual GUI testing paradigm scope, where ...
    • Thesis at Politecnico di Torino

      Self-supervised techniques for medical image representation learning

      Training deep neural networks require large scale annotated datasets which are often difficult to collect in the medical domain. As a consequence, a plethora of small and very specialized datasets have emerged. The medical domain would extremely benefit from more general purpose models that can be applied to a variety of problems. A possible strategy to overcome this issue is to leverage self-supervised ...
    • Thesis with an external company or research center

      Deep learning techniques for digital mammography analysis

      Multiple thesis are available within the AIBIBANK (Bio-Banking for Artificial Intelligence) project. Research activities at DAUIN, developed in collaboration with HealthTriage srl, aim at developing deep learning-based components for the automated screening of digital mammography images. In early cancer prevention programs, women undergo biennal exams in which up to four, high-resolution images are acquired. ...
    • Thesis at Politecnico di Torino

      Optimizing batch normalization for small to medium batch sizes

      Batch normalization has been a key enabler in the training of very deep neural networks. However, it suffers from a number of drawbacks including slow updates, instability with small batch sizes, different behaviors at training and inference times, and platform-dependent implementations than hinder research reproducibility. Recently, variations on batch normalization techniques, including batch-norm-free ...
    • Thesis at Politecnico di Torino

      Compensating dataset bias with high-level semantic prior

      Deep neural networks, such as convolutional neural networks, are sensitive to the presence of dataset bias, which arises when the distribution of training samples is skewed and conflates the presence of unrelated attributes. For instance, photos of wolves may be associated more frequently with a snowy background, photos of cats are typically taken indoor, photos of bikes are typically associated with sunny ...
    • Thesis with an external company or research center

      AI-powered driving style estimation and driver mimicking

      The driving style is unique to each person and it affects the vehicle usage. The thesis aims to create an autonomous agent able to mimic the behavior of a specific driver, in order to perform adaptive DSE (Drive Style Estimation). This requires the agent to be able both to react properly to environmental stimuli and to tailor its behavior on the driver’s profile. Activities could encompass the use of the both ...
    • Thesis with an external company or research center

      Automatic recognition of particle tracks in nuclear scattering

      Reconstruction of the complete kinematics of a collision between particles at accelerators is a fundamental step in the investigation of subtle processes hidden in the 10-15 m and 10-23 s space-time windows where the interaction takes place. The study of pion – Helium nucleus interaction at the temperature at which a transition phase from a bound nucleus to a gas of fermions is expected to occur is of high ...

Miscellaneous

    • Thesis at Politecnico di Torino

      Blockchain and smart contracts: analysis, search and visualization

      The thesis aims at designing and developing a tool for the analysis of smart contracts deployed on existing blockchain platforms. The objective of the tool is to support the user in the identification of smart contracts' main characteristics (e.g., in terms of application field, type, tasks performed, interactions with other smart contracts, etc.), by also exploiting visualization techniques. The thesis student ...
    • Thesis with an external company or research center

      Design and Implementation of a Blockchain-based Simulation Tool for Electric Vehicle Recharging Infrastructure

      Supervisors: Valentina Gatteschi
      The adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is increasing, and the demand for electric vehicle recharging infrastructure is growing. To ensure the efficient operation of this infrastructure, new tools are needed to simulate, test, and optimize different charging strategies. In this thesis proposal, we propose the design and implementation of a blockchain-based simulation tool for electric vehicle recharging ...
    • Thesis with an external company or research center

      Self-Sovereign Identity and its Integration in an Energy Data Marketplace

      Supervisors: Valentina Gatteschi
      Self-Sovereign Identity is a new digital identity model that empowers individuals to control their identity without relying on centralized authorities. SSI enables the creation, management, and verification of digital identities that are self-owned, portable, and interoperable. In the context of an energy data marketplace, SSI can potentially enable secure and efficient sharing of energy data while giving ...
    • Thesis with an external company or research center

      Benchmarking and testing Blockchain Technologies for Industrial Product Tracking

      Supervisors: Valentina Gatteschi
      Industrial product tracking is a critical aspect of supply chain management that ensures the integrity, traceability, and security of products as they move through the supply chain. Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize industrial product tracking by providing a tamper-proof and decentralized system for data storage and traceability. However, with various blockchain platforms available, it is ...