Yao Wang successfully defended his PhD thesis on November 5th, 2024. For our blog, he summarizes his research on understanding and predicting human visual attention.
Analysis and Modelling of Visual Attention on Information Visualisations

Yao Wang successfully defended his PhD thesis on November 5th, 2024. For our blog, he summarizes his research on understanding and predicting human visual attention.
In October 2023, Fiona Draxler from LMU, Munich successfully defended her PhD thesis. Read more about it!
On the first of July this year I successfully defended my PhD Thesis with the title Quasi Continuous Level Monte Carlo Method (1) and I am happy to share my work on the SFB-TRR 161 blog.
From January 30 to February 1, 2024, a group of SFB-TRR 161 researchers gathered in Stuttgart for our first hackathon. Their aim: developing visualization tools for eye-tracking data analysis with a focus on dimensionality reduction techniques.
As a doctoral researcher of project A03 of the SFB-TRR 161, I am researching “Quantification of Visual Explainability.” During my research stay from February to May 2023, I joined the Visualization and Graphics (VIG) group at the Utrecht University.
I’m delighted to share that I’ve successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis titled “Variational 3D Reconstruction of Non-Lambertian Scenes Using Light Fields”. Depth estimation from multiple cameras is the task of estimating the distance between the individual cameras and the scene
In July 2022, Florian Frieß defended his PhD thesis on “Interactive Remote-Visualisation for large Displays”. On our blog, he summarizes his findings.
Christoph Schulz recently completed his thesis with the title “Uncertainty-aware Visualization Techniques”. On our blog, he summarizes his thesis.
In April 2022, Hui Men successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis with the title “Boosting for Visual Quality Assessment with Applications for Frame Interpolation Methods”.
In December 2021, Daniel Seebacher successfully defended his doctoral thesis on “Visual Analytics of Spatial Events: Methods for the Interactive Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Data Abstractions”.