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General comments on the current thesis

Please check examples of other master thesis regarding structure and content. A very highlevel overview of the so-called "IMRAD" scheme (default for scientific papers) can be found here. The current state is far from the required structure and needs rework. Keep in mind the submission deadline on 24.03.2025!

Abstract

Introduction (incl. theory / literature)

• Why is this study important?
  • General introduction to digital image processing and its applications.
• Why are the topic and the results relevant?
  • Image processing required for many applications
  • Used on powerful and less powerful (embedded?) devices
  • Speed and resource usage dictate possible use cases
  • If allowed also include the use cases in dassault systems, but not exclusively!
• What was the aim of the study?
  • Describe the research goals! Allow educated choices for image processing tools depending on defined metrics
  • Explain how the work done in this study can help other people to select the right tool for their requirements
  • Do not focus solely on 5000€ saving in the company (this is still peanuts!) ImageSharp is one of many compared tools and coincidentally the one currently used by Dassault!
• What were the research question(s) and/or hypotheses?
  • What is the performance of different libraries for a given set of selected image processing tasks
  • Which library provides the most resource efficient processing?
  • Hypothesis is not easily applicable here!
• What research does already exist on this topic?
  • This is important! You must do a literature search for other comparisons or evaluations of image processing libraries. Don't look for blog posts or project websites, but scientific literature!
  • Use Google Scholar (and other literature research tools available!), e.g., Example Search Image Processing Comparison

Methodology

• Explain both defined metrics (image loading time and pixel iteration). Why are they used? Why not something else?
• How are the metrics obtained/measured?
• How are the results processed and analyzed?
• How are the libraries for the comparison selected? By which criteria? Why?

Implementation (optional, sometimes fits in CS work, sometimes better to methodology)

• How was the benchmark implemented? Larger fragments of code belongs to appendix

Results

• What is the answer to the research question?
  • Important: Answers, not discussion or interpretation!
• What data were generated? Do they support the hypotheses?
  • Include results of benchmarking, graphs, tables etc
  • Requires written paragraphs!

Discussion

• What do the results mean? / How can the results be interpreted?
  • Here you can start
• What conclusions can be drawn?
  • Is there a universally good library?
  • What are the strengths and weaknesses of the different libraries?
• To what larger field are the findings relevant?
• What implications can be derived for further research, theory, or practice?
  • Was the approach chosen for the study appropriate? What could be done differently in a further study?

Please use vector images (usually PDF for Latex) for any generated plots. The quality of this image is not sufficient. If you use raster images make sure the resolution is 300DPI!

• Most of the tables in this directory belong into the appendix of the work.
• Some of them may be included in the results or methodology chapters, but perhaps require a little cleanup (lot's of technical content - make sure it fits the message of the text!)

Please have a look at existing thesis (see previous mail) or google!

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