The following is a list of PhD and Masters theses that I am currently supervising. This is followed by a list of completed Masters and PhD theses that I supervised.

(note that the titles are usually of my own invention and have no connection to the “official” title, nor to the title that the thesis will finally have)

• João Palotti, Estimating Trustability and Readability of Medical Documents
• Linda Andersson, The Essence of Patent Retrieval (co-supervised with Andreas Rauber, TU Wien)

• Roland Honeder, Using Query Expansion in Patent Application Information Retrieval

• Naeem Bhatti, On the Contextual Co-occurrence of Local Features in Images
• Rehan Ullah Khan, Contextual Skin Segmentation For Content Filtering (co-supervised with Robert Sablatnig, TU Wien)
• Julian Stöttinger, Detection and Evaluation Methods for Local Image and Video Features (co-supervised with Theo Gevers, University of Amsterdam and Nicu Sebe, University of Trento)
• Lech Szumilas, Scale and Rotation Invariant Shape Matching (co-supervised with Robert Sablatnig, TU Wien)

• Thomas Kern, Feature Selection with Mutual Information for Patent Categorization (co-supervised with Linda Andersson)
• Jana Machajdik, Affective Image Classification  
• Katrien Beuls, Text Categorization for Intellectual Property     (co-supervised with Rob Clark, University of Edinburgh)
• Julian Stöttinger, Local Colour Features for Image Retrieval  
• Stefan Kuthan, Extraction of Attributes, Nature and Context of Images  
• Florian Seitner, Robust detection and tracking of objects