Projects and Theses (Summer 2022/Winter 2022)

ILDARS

Indoor Localization using Directional and Reflected Sound signals. 

• Signal Processing - differentiate and detect reflected and LOS signal
• System Integration
• Algorithms - Learning walls
• Supervisor(s) - Prof.Dr.Christian Schindelhauer

BRAINY BATS

• Assumption - Perfect ray model
• Given - senders and receivers of unknown positions, walls and shapes of unknown positions
• Compute - the relative positions
• Restraints - shapes (planes, spheres, cylinders), number of reflections, 2D/3D
• Supervisor(s) - Sneha Mohanty, Prof.Dr.Christian Schindelhauer

MASTER LAB SOUNDSCAPE ECOLOGY

• Cooperation with Geobotany/Forest Science
• Computer Science to improve current acoustic monitoring methods
• Developing methods and/or hardware for 3D locating bats and other animals
• Setup an array of autonomous recorders - Raspberry Pi with audio recorder shield
• Courses, practical field courses, jour fixe, campfire sessions
• Supervisor(s) - Prof.Dr.Christian Schindelhauer, Dr.Johannes Wendeberg, Sneha Mohanty

VISUAL CRYPTOGRAPHY

• Tracing the path of a light ray or beam in 2D/3D
• Given - An optical system consisting of refractive/reflective surfaces
• Surface boundary could be rational/irrational or mixture of both
• Determine if light ray/beam exits at fixed position, P
• Determine limitations of such an optical system
• Supervisor(s) - Prof.Dr.Christian Schindelhauer, Sneha Mohanty

CRYPTOGRAPHY

• Bullet proofs for Mental Card Games
• Given - formal description of a card game, automatically construct all interactive zero-knowledge games
• Design an interpreter/compiler which translates card game languages into interactive proof systems
• Supervisor(s) - Prof.Dr.Christian Schindelhauer

ANALYSIS OF SPARSE MATRICES

• Application of Coding Theory
• Given a matrix with given positions where entries are chosen randomly, determine probability of certain rank
• Supervisor(s) - Prof.Dr.Christian Schindelhauer, Sneha Mohanty

MIMO AND NEAR-FIELD ANTENNA FIELDS

• Given - set of sender/receiver antenna 
• Signal produced
• Compute/Simulate - power gain/diversity gain
• Tools - Simulation in 2D/3D with physical models
• Related lectures - Fundamentals of Wireless Communications
• Supervisor(s) - Prof.Dr.Christian Schindelhauer, Peter Krämer

DATA AGGREGATION IN PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK

• Given - Sensors and data from sensors community
• Compute/Simulate aggregation function, Clustering over P2P 
• Supervisor(s) - Prof.Dr.Christian Schindelhauer, Saptadi Nugroho

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