Defended theses

Take a look at all the magnificent theses that our students have written about self-driving. Surely this list contains the names of future leading specialists of the self-driving academia and industry!
All BSc MSc PhD 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
Exploring Smartphone-Based Reinforcement Learning Control for Educational Robotics: Implementation on OpenBot

Lilou Gras • MSc

• Supervisor: Naveed Muhammad

• 2024

Machine learning solutions for the task of pedestrian trajectory prediction – a systematic literature review

Ankit Garg • MSc

• Supervisor: Naveed Muhammad

• 2024

Continuous Collaborative Mapping in Unknown Environments: A Multi-Robot System Approach

Malcom Maurice Radigon • MSc

• Supervisor: Naveed Muhammad

• 2024

Small-Scale Cars for Autonomous Driving Research

Uroš Petrovic • MSc

• Supervisor: Naveed Muhammad

• 2024

Security Risk Management in Teleoperated Driving

Nataliia Pabat • MSc

• Supervisor: Raimundas Matulevičius, Abasi-amefon Obot Affia

• 2024

Creation of Digital Twin for Tartu

Allan Mitt • MSc

• Supervisor: Tambet Matiisen

• 2024

Physical A*: Graph-Based Search Algorithm for Robot Navigation On-the-Go

Anish Shrestha • MSc

• Supervisor: Tambet Matiisen

• 2024

Asymmetric Deep Multi-Task Learning

Ali Maharramov • MSc

• Supervisor: Tambet Matiisen

• 2024

Lane Centerline Detection from Orthophotos using Transformer Networks

Karl-Johan Pilve • MSc

• Supervisor: Tambet Matiisen, Edgar Sepp

• 2024

Creation of Materials to Teach Data Science via Self-Driving

Artur Kreegipuu • BSc

• Supervisor: Ardi Tampuu

• 2024

Designing and Implementing a Bird’s-eye View Interface for a Self-driving Vehicle’s Teleoperation System

Rauno Põlluäär • MSc

• Supervisor: Karl Kruusamäe

• 2024

Automating Classification of Disengagements using FoxGlove

Pirjo Jõelo • BSc

• Supervisor: Dietmar Pfahl

• 2024

Simulation-based Safety Testing of an Automated Driving System (ADS)

Laima Anna Dalbina • MSc

• Supervisor: Dietmar Pfahl

• 2024

Visibility aware navigation

Houman Masnavi • PhD

• Supervisor: Arun Kumar Singh, Karl Kruusamäe

• 2023

Sampling-based Bi-level Optimization aided by Behaviour Cloning for Autonomous Driving

Jatan Shrestha • MSc

• Supervisor: Arun Kumar Singh

• 2023

Development of a continuous teleoperation system for urban road vehicle

Erki Veeväli • BSc

• Supervisor: Karl Kruusamäe, Ulrich Norbisrath

• 2023

XR Teleoperation Demo Development

Matevž Zorec • MSc

• Supervisor: Ulrich Norbisrath

• 2023

Object Recognition Using a Sparse 3D Camera Point Cloud

Timo Tiirats • MSc

• Supervisor: Tambet Matiisen, Dan Bogdanov

• 2023

Semi-automatic generation of Lanelet2 maps for autonomous driving

Valentina Sagris • MSc

• Supervisor: Edgar Sepp, Tambet Matiisen

• 2023

Georeferenced Visual SLAM

Erik Mägi • MSc

• Supervisor: Tambet Matiisen, Edgar Sepp

• 2023

Review and Comparison of Vision- and LiDAR-based Methods for Autonomous Vehicle Localization

Anna Ulst • BSc

• Supervisor: Debasis Kumar, Naveed Muhammad

• 2022

A continuous teleoperating system based on shared control concept

Markus Erik Sügis • BSc

• Supervisor: Karl Kruusamäe, Arun Kumar Singh

• 2022

Energy-Based Models for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Mykyta Baliesnyi • MSc

• Supervisor: Tambet Matiisen

• 2022

Comparing Output Modalities in End-to-End Driving

Romet Aidla • MSc

• Supervisor: Tambet Matiisen, Ardi Tampuu

• 2022

Driving Speed as a Hidden Factor Behind Distribution Shift

Kristjan Roosild • MSc

• Supervisor: Ardi Tampuu

• 2022

Leading Vehicle Length Estimation Using Pressure Data for Use in Autonomous Driving

Matis Ottan • BSc

• Supervisor: Naveed Muhammad

• 2022

Effect of Delays/Lag and Fighting it in Self-driving Neural Networks

Ilmar Uduste • MSc

• Supervisor: Ardi Tampuu

• 2022

Teleoperation of Remote Controlled Toy Cars in VR

Amirabbas Sherafatian • MSc

• Supervisor: Ulrich Norbisrath

• 2022

Forecasting Human Trajectories with Uncertainty Estimation

Karl Riis • MSc

• Supervisor: Meelis Kull, Novin Shahroudi

• 2022

State of the art VR Driving Simulation for Physical Test Car Using LiDAR for Mapping the Surrounding Environment

Raigo Kõvask • MSc

• Supervisor: Ulrich Norbisrath

• 2022

Agent Behavior Modeling in Roundabout Traffic

Heidi Korp • MSc

• Supervisor: Naveed Muhammad, Yar Muhammad

• 2022

Using Adversarial Defense Methods to Improve the Performance of Deep-Neural-Network-Controlled Automatic Driving Systems

Mike Gomes Camara • MSc

• Supervisor: Dietmar Pfahl

• 2022

Digital twin for Narva street roundabout in Tartu

Rudolf Põldma • BSc

• Supervisor: Karl Kruusamäe

• 2021

Simulation of Tartu City Centre for Testing Autonomous Vehicles

Allan Mitt • BSc

• Supervisor: Tambet Matiisen

• 2021

Air-flow sensing for applications in autonomous driving

Roman Matvejev • BSc

• Supervisor: Naveed Muhammad, Yar Muhammad

• 2021

Multihead Attention Enhanced Memory Augmented Neural Network for Multimodal Trajectory Prediction

Farhan Syakir • MSc

• Supervisor: Naveed Muhammad, Yar Muhammad

• 2021

Modelling Interactions Between Traffic and Crosswalk Agents at Unsignalized Crossings

Laura Liis Metsvaht • MSc

• Supervisor: Naveed Muhammad, Yar Muhammad

• 2021

Navigation Application Input Rendering for a Self-driving Car’s Neural Network

Erik Marcus Maks • BSc

• Supervisor: Tambet Matiisen

• 2021

Human-like Speed in Curves

Eduard Rudi • BSc

• Supervisor: Tambet Matiisen

• 2021

Generating Vector Map Data for Autonomous Driving

Krister Looga • BSc

• Supervisor: Tambet Matiisen, Edgar Sepp

• 2021

Tool for Creating High Definition Maps in Lanelet2 format

Karl-Johan Pilve • BSc

• Supervisor: Tambet Matiisen, Edgar Sepp

• 2021

Securing Passenger's Data in Autonomous Vehicles

Mariia Bakhtina • MSc

• Supervisor: Raimundas Matulevičius, Mari Seeba

• 2021

External human-vehicle interaction - a study in the context of an autonomous ride-hailing service

Kristina Meister • MSc

• Supervisor: Karl Kruusamäe, Alexander Udo Nolte, Andres Kuusik

• 2021

Using LiDAR as Camera for End-to-End Driving

Jan Aare van Gent • MSc

• Supervisor: Tambet Matiisen

• 2021

Change Detection in HD-Maps Using Camera Images for Autonomous Driving

Navid Bamdad Roshan • MSc

• Supervisor: Dmytro Fishman, Naveed Muhammad

• 2021

Creating High-Definition Vector Maps for Autonomous Driving

Edgar Sepp • MSc

• Supervisor: Tambet Matiisen

• 2021

Automatic Road Boundaries Extraction for High Definition maps

Dmytro Zabolotnii • MSc

• Supervisor: Naveed Muhammad, Dmytro Fishman

• 2021

Traffic Light Detection by Fusing Object Detection and Map Info

Tetiana Shtym • MSc

• Supervisor: Tambet Matiisen, Meelis Kull

• 2021

Security Risk Management in Autonomous Driving Vehicles: Architecture Perspective

Rando Tõnisson • MSc

• Supervisor: Raimundas Matulevičius, Abasi-Amefon O. Affia

• 2020

Design and Evaluation of a User Interface to Increase Trust in Autonomous Vehicles

Timo Soiunen • MSc

• Supervisor: Alexander Nolte

• 2020

Communicating and interpreting machine intent

Maarika Oidekivi • MSc

• Supervisor: Karl Kruusamäe

• 2020

Estimating the distribution of risks of a self-driving car's object detection model with a Poisson process

Getter Põru • MSc

• Supervisor: Meelis Kull

• 2020

Detection of Changes in Maps Using LiDAR Point Clouds

Vladyslav Fediukov • MSc

• Supervisor: Dmytro Fishman

• 2020