Master’s Thesis

ID 2513: Detection & prediction of freezing events in patients with Parkinson’s disease

Freezing of gait (FoG) is a common and disabling motor symptom in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD), characterized by brief, episodic absence or marked reduction of forward progression of the feet despite the intention to walk. Patients often describe it as feeling as though their feet are “glu...

ID 2512: Various Topics for Machine Learning and (Web) App Development in Health Psychology

Bachelor's / Master's Thesis / Research Internship / Project The aim of our research is to explore the potential of digital technologies in psychological research to better understand human psychology and behavior. Many psychological research areas still rely on “traditional” methods, such as labor...

ID 2511: Contactless Measurement of Acute Stress from Body Posture and Movements

Bachelor's / Master's Thesis / Research Internship / Project The observation of body posture and movements is a promising extension to the established biopsychological markers for stress measurement, such as self-reports, saliva, or blood samples. Body posture and movements provide additional infor...

ID 2510: Video-based digital biomarker extraction framework for psychological research

Bachelor's / Master's Thesis / Research Internship / Project Psychological assessments often rely on subjective measures such as self-reports and interviews. However, recent advancements in computer vision and machine learning enable the extraction of objective biomarkers from video data, such as f...

ID 2454: Sensor-based Measurement of Fear Avoidance in Chronic Primary Lower Back Pain during Standardized Movement Tasks

Bachelor's / Master's Thesis / Research Internship / Project Fear avoidance (FA) beliefs (i.e. movements may lead to pain/injury) motivate patients with chronic primary low back pain (CPLBP) to avoid physical activity and may thereby contribute to the maintenance of pain and disability. Patients’ c...

ID 2446: EmpkinS C01: Physics-Informed Deep Learning for Movement Analysis and Control

Bachelor's / Master's Thesis / Research Internship / Project Earliest project/thesis start in May 2025! The real-time control and analysis of human poses and movements has long been a complex problem in fields like computer vision and machine learning. Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have...

ID 2431: EmpkinS D03 – Contactless Measurement of Acute Stress from Micro Movements

Bachelor's / Master's Thesis / Research Internship / Project Acute stress reliably activates, among other pathways, the sympathetic nervous system, leading to changes in heart rate (variability) (HR and HRV), respiration, pre-ejection period (PEP), and electrodermal activity (EDA). So far, these pa...

ID 2419: Decoding Foundation Models: Enhancing Understanding and Transparency

This work aims to investigate and analyze the intriguing properties exhibited by foundation models in deep learning, including vision, natural language processing (NLP), and multimodal models. The research intends to provide a comprehensive understanding of these properties to enhance the reliabilit...

ID 2362: AI-driven biomechanical golf swing analysis

Master's Thesis / Research Internship / Student Assistant The golf swing is arguably one of the most complex whole-body movements in sports . It requires significant physiological effort and precise neuromuscular control to accelerate the clubhead to more than 160 km/h in one-fifth of a second . Th...