COMP9517 Notices

Group Project Marks Released

Posted by Annette Spooner Monday 17 May 2021, 12:31:27 PM.

The total mark for the group project, which includes the project demo and the project report, has been released, along with the feedback on the project demo and project report.

You can access your marks by logging in to your account and typing:

9517 classrun -sturec

To see your marks on WebCMS3:

• Select Timetable
• Select 1PGA or 1UGA (postgraduate/undergraduate)
• Scroll down to Class Roll
• Select the “marks” icon (similar to a bar chart) against your name.

Wednesday May 5th, 5 PM

Posted by Arcot Sowmya Wednesday 05 May 2021, 05:00:01 PM.

Dear 9517 students

Thank you for sending your exam related queries via email and waiting for the responses. Given the class size and volume of queries, we thank you for your patience.

The admin team and myself will sign off at 5 PM today.

I shall check my emails tonight, and also tomorrow morning before exam submission time.

As always, all queries should be sent by emailing cs9517@cse.unsw.edu.au

Good luck with your submission.

Best wishes

Sowmya

PDF Version of Lab 5 Template

Posted by Annette Spooner Tuesday 04 May 2021, 04:28:19 PM.

A PDF version of the template for Lab 5 (sample exam) is available on the course website under Course Work->Lab Activities->Week 8.

Final Exam Instructions

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Tuesday 04 May 2021, 01:18:55 PM, last modified Tuesday 04 May 2021, 01:25:45 PM.

The final exam will be available on Moodle from 8 am on Wednesday 5th May to 8 am on Thursday 6th May , via the link Final Exam Paper which is in the Final Exam section on Moodle. To format your answer, please use the template available via the link Final Exam - Template .

Your exam answer should be submitted using the link Final Exam - Submission via Turnitin . Do not use the file upload box within the Moodle quiz. You will be allowed unlimited submissions up to the due date. Your similarity score will be visible, but after the third submission it will not be recalculated until after the exam finishes.

If you have any questions about the exam paper you may email cs9517@cse.unsw.edu.au . The LIC will be available on Wednesday 5th May from 8 AM to 5 PM to answer any questions sent via email to cs9517@cse.unsw.edu.au . For any questions during the exam, please USE EMAIL ONLY sent to the above email address.

Instructions on what to do in the event of technical issues or illness during the exam are included at the start of the exam paper.

REMINDER: COMP9517 exam on WED MAY 5th, 8 AM AEST

Posted by Arcot Sowmya Tuesday 04 May 2021, 12:10:28 PM, last modified Tuesday 04 May 2021, 12:17:48 PM.

Dear 9517 students

A quick reminder that the 9517 exam will be held tomorrow Wednesday May 5th, starting 08:00 AM AEST.

It is a 24 hour exam , with your answer due by Thursday 07:59 AM AEST .

More instructions will be posted shortly on where to access the exam paper and submit your answers.

I wish you all the best in your exam preparations.

Best wishes

Sowmya

Additional Sample Exam Response

Posted by Annette Spooner Monday 03 May 2021, 01:31:02 PM.

An additional sample exam response has been posted on the course website under Course Work->Assessments->Exam.

Sample Exam Response

Posted by Annette Spooner Monday 03 May 2021, 10:02:01 AM.

To help you prepare for the final exam, a sample exam response, and the paper that the response is referring to, is now available on the course website under Course Work->Assessments->Exam.

Good luck in your exam!

Lab recordings and the final exam

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Sunday 02 May 2021, 12:06:08 PM, last modified Sunday 02 May 2021, 12:09:59 PM.

Dear 9517 students,

Some of you may have experienced problems accessing lab recordings because not all tutors recorded their lab sessions. We have now allowed all students to access lab recording of any tutor, regardless of group membership. Hope this will help you in the preparation for the exam.

Some notices about the exam:

1. If case of any problems, please send an email to cs9517@cse.unsw.edu.au giving you name, zid, problem description and screenshots.
2. Please get and save a screenshot when you start the exam and when you submit the result. This will help resolving any issues during the exam.
3. We suggest not to click on "Finish attempt..." button after you open the exam paper. This way your exam paper will always stay visible for the duration of the exam.
4. Please use your zid in the exam report title. This will help with identification as names are sometimes not unique.
5. As we have stressed before, please follow citation and referencing guidelines published in an earlier notice.

Wishing you all the best results.

9517 Team

UNSW Guide to exams

Posted by Arcot Sowmya Wednesday 28 April 2021, 07:04:49 PM.

Dear 9517 students

Hope you are doing well and keeping safe.

Just a reminder that the UNSW guide to exams for students is at

https://student.unsw.edu.au/exams

Best wishes

Sowmya, LIC

Reminder of completing Peer Review in Moodle by 30 April 16:59

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Wednesday 28 April 2021, 06:09:31 PM.

As a reminder, all group members must enter their peer-review by 30 April 16:59 . The project marking will not be completed unless all members fill this in. Please encourage your team members to complete the review.

Lab 5 Recordings Now Available in Moodle

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Wednesday 28 April 2021, 02:27:27 PM.

Lab 5 Recording link is now available in Moodle in your Tutor's lab recording section.

Lab 5 (Sample Exam) Answer Template Updated

Posted by Annette Spooner Wednesday 28 April 2021, 01:44:57 PM, last modified Wednesday 28 April 2021, 02:24:40 PM.

A version of the answer template for Lab 5, which is also the sample final exam, has been provided in MS Word, rather than PDF, to make it easier for you to use. This can be found on the course website under Course Work->Lab Activities->Week 8.

COMP 9517 final exam, consultations

Posted by Arcot Sowmya Wednesday 28 April 2021, 08:44:06 AM.

Dear 9517 students

Hope you are well and safe.

The final examination for this course will be a 24 hour exam. It will start on WEDNESDAY May 5th, 08:00 AEST , with submission due by THURSDAY May 6th, 07:59 AEST . The exam will be conducted via Moodle, please log into Moodle on the day. Detailed final exam instructions will be posted shortly.

The exam will be in the style of Lab5, already released.

Pre-exam consultations : All lecturers will answer questions on the course content starting from now until the exam date. Questions will be answered within 24 hours.

Please post your questions on Piazza, so that all answers are available to everyone. Also, first check whether your question has already been asked and answered before posting your question.

Sowmya

REMINDER: Submission of Group Project Report and Code

Posted by Arcot Sowmya Friday 23 April 2021, 01:46:33 PM.

A reminder that the group project final report and code submission are due TODAY, ie Friday 23rd April at 16:59 AEST .

For details of how to submit, scroll down for the message posted earlier.

Please note:

1. Only one student in each group needs to submit the project files. Please include your group name in the report file n ame.

2. Please DO NOT include your data in the submission, to keep the size down. You can add a README file explaining how to run it. Only include your code and the README file in the zip file (submitted on WebCMS3), and the report in a pdf file (submitted on Moodle). However, if you have a large trained model, please do not include it in the submission, but keep it unchanged in case we request it.

3. If you have any issues uploading the files, post it on the forum or send an email to cs9517@cse.unsw.edu.au

Lab5 is the sample final exam paper

Posted by Arcot Sowmya Friday 23 April 2021, 01:42:00 PM.

Dear 9517 students

Lab5, already released, is in the format of the final exam. You may treat it as a sample final exam paper.

Best wishes

Sowmya

REMINDER: myExperience Survey still open, closes April 29th

Posted by Arcot Sowmya Friday 23 April 2021, 01:41:04 PM.

Dear 9517 students

Hope you are safe and well. Thanks to all of you who have completed the myExperience survey so far.

If you have not yet participated, it is still open until April 29th.

You can complete your survey via:

• the myExperience link in your Moodle course
• logging in directly to https://myExperience.unsw.edu.au
• checking your email for the link

Please take the time to complete the survey. Your constructive feedback is highly valued and appreciated. Results from this survey help enhance courses and teaching at UNSW. Your feedback makes a difference for the next group of students taking your courses, just as past feedback from students taking courses you plan to take makes a difference for you.

myExperience is confidential and your identity is not included in reports. Results of the survey are not made available until your course results are released.

Best wishes

Sowmya and COMP 9517 team, 21T1

Thank you for completed Project Demo sessions

Posted by Arcot Sowmya Friday 23 April 2021, 01:31:57 PM.

Hello everyone, hope you are keeping safe and well.

The project demos are now completed. A big thank you to all students, lecturers, tutors and course administrators for working together to make this a good experience for everyone. I enjoyed the presentations and hope you did too.

Project Demo Stream 2 Link

Posted by Annette Spooner Thursday 22 April 2021, 02:08:56 PM.

The link for Stream 2 project demos is:

Microsoft Teams meeting

Join on your computer or mobile app

We are waiting for you to join the meeting.

Assignment 1 Marks Released

Posted by Annette Spooner Wednesday 21 April 2021, 12:45:29 PM.

The marks for Assignment 1 have been released. Penalties have been applied where applicable.

You can access your marks by logging in to your account and typing:

9517 classrun -sturec

To see your marks on WebCMS3:

• Select Timetable
• Select 1PGA or 1UGA (postgraduate/undergraduate)
• Scroll down to Class Roll
• Select the “marks” icon (similar to a bar chart) against your name.

Individual Project Marks Released

Posted by Annette Spooner Wednesday 21 April 2021, 12:13:02 PM.

The marks for the individual component of the Project have been released. Late penalties have been applied where applicable. Please note that some marks have been withheld pending further investigation of the Turnitin similarity scores.

The marks for Assignment 1 are being finalised and will be released soon.

You can access your marks by logging in to your account and typing:

9517 classrun -sturec

To see your marks on WebCMS3:

• Select Timetable
• Select 1PGA or 1UGA (postgraduate/undergraduate)
• Scroll down to Class Roll
• Select the “marks” icon (similar to a bar chart) against your name.

Group peer review is now open

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Wednesday 21 April 2021, 11:44:36 AM, last modified Wednesday 21 April 2021, 11:48:44 AM.

The peer review for all groups is now open. This is for each member of the group to enter participation percentage for all their own group members, including themselves. The deadline for this activity is 30 April at 16:59 AEST time.

To enter the peer-review, log in into Moodle and click on GROUP Self Assessment>Project team peer review . You will be taken to the review page, where you can select percentage of all team member contributions, and optionally add comments. Comments, if any, should include statement about your own contribution and contributions of all other members.

Please note: all group members must enter their peer-review. The project marking will not be completed unless all members fill this in.

GROUP Project Report and Source Code Submission due Friday 23 April 16:59

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Tuesday 20 April 2021, 11:41:42 AM, last modified Tuesday 20 April 2021, 03:03:12 PM.

The Moodle submission links for the GROUP report document and source code is now open.

DEADLINE : Friday 23 April 16:59.

FORMAT : .2 files: 1) report document in PDF file, 2) source code in zip file. Please include your group name in the report file name . This helps to easier associate the submission with the group.

The report and the source code will be submitted using Moodle. The Moodle course website has the submission section as shown here:

Group report should be of maximum 10 pages (2-column IEEE format). Please carefully read project specification, Report section for details. Please also pay attention to proper acknowledgement and referencing of any external source used in the report and code.

If you have any issues uploading the files, post it on the forum or send an email to cs9517@cse.unsw.edu.au

Plagiarism checking in report and code

Posted by Arcot Sowmya Monday 19 April 2021, 07:02:43 PM, last modified Monday 19 April 2021, 07:29:09 PM.

Dear 9517 Students

Hope you are well and safe.

While reviewing your Assignment 1 and Individual Project, we have found that some of you are unsure about how to properly acknowledge external sources used in writing the report or code. In this notice, we provide some guidelines which may help in avoiding any plagiarism in future.

The Turnitin software used for plagiarism detection in reports highlights all parts of text that are found in other sources, including reports in this and other universities, published papers and web based sources. When reviewing Turnitin reports, we look for highlighted sentences and blocks of text. Blocks of text copied from another source attract higher penalty than single sentences. We also do not count short phrases, such as “training and test set”, “effectiveness and efficiency of the method” or “Support Vector Machine (SVM)” or other commonly used expressions. It is not sufficient to copy a text and change a few words, as the main content still remains the same. Therefore, after reading a paper or an Internet post, we suggest that you use your own words and rephrase the contents of the read material.

Regarding code, please keep in mind that we also have effective tools to detect plagiarism.

If your code is based on any external source, for example Internet repository or source code provided with a paper, it needs to be clearly acknowledged and referenced. The reader of your submission should be able to easily find the code you are referring to and check it against the source you provided. For example you might say “… the code of xxx function is based on [1]”, where [1] refers to a list of references. All references to code should be placed in the report, not the code itself, as we cannot read all the code to find references. Including a source in the reference list but not showing where and how it is being used will still count as plagiarism.

While in the assignment and individual project report we have applied some leniency to referencing, in the coming group project and exam reports we shall be strict in applying the above guidelines. Please ask questions on Piazza if you need further clarification.

We are looking forward to marking your clean and well written reports.

Kind regards

Sowmya, LIC

and COMP9517 team

Total Lab Marks Released

Posted by Annette Spooner Monday 19 April 2021, 03:20:15 PM.

The total lab mark has now been released. The total mark includes any penalties applied for late submissions or other reasons, so may not necessarily be equal to the sum of your individual lab marks. It can be accessed in the same way as the other marks.

Lab 4 Marks Released

Posted by Annette Spooner Monday 19 April 2021, 09:16:16 AM.

The marks for Lab 4 have been released. Please note that late penalties, if any, have not yet been applied, but will be applied at the time of grading. You can access your marks by logging in to your account and typing:

9517 classrun -sturec

To see your marks on WebCMS3:

• Select Timetable
• Select 1PGA or 1UGA (postgraduate/undergraduate)
• Scroll down to Class Roll
• Select the “marks” icon (similar to a bar chart) against your name.

The WebCMS3 system updates overnight so you may not be able to access the marks through WebCMS3 until tomorrow.

Project Demos Today!

Posted by Annette Spooner Monday 19 April 2021, 08:36:55 AM.

Don't forget that the first group of project demos are on today from 12pm - 2pm. Please check your stream and time and join the appropriate meeting link, at least 15 mins prior to your scheduled time, with your microphone muted. The meeting links for today can be found in the project demo instructions document posted on the course website or below. All members of a team must attend that team's demonstration and you are encouraged to watch other demonstrations as well.

Good luck with your demonstrations!

Stream 1 Monday April 19 ^th , 12-2pm

Click here to join the meeting

Stream 2 Monday April 19 ^th , 12-2pm

Click here to join the meeting

Stream 3 Monday April 19 ^th , 12-2pm

Click here to join the meeting

CSE file server problem fixed!

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Friday 16 April 2021, 06:01:38 PM, last modified Friday 16 April 2021, 06:03:55 PM.

Just an update to the last notice: according to CSE System Support, the problem has been isolated and fixed. If it happened that you lost the files and do not have a backup, please follow these instructions. given in Andrew Taylor's email, or if any further problems, please contact the Help Desk on helpdesk@cse.unsw.edu.au . Hope you can now relax and focus on your study.

Computer Science & Engineering file server problem

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Friday 16 April 2021, 01:16:39 PM.

Dear students,

You may have been notified already that in the last 24 hours a number of students in Computer Science & Engineering courses have lost all the files stored on CSE servers in their home directory. While the CSE System Support is working to find the cause and fix the problem, we s trongly encourage you to backup all your important files on CSE servers on the daily basis.

Teams Live link to Online lecture, Week 9 Thursday 15 April, 2-3 PM

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Thursday 15 April 2021, 01:02:30 PM, last modified Thursday 15 April 2021, 01:03:22 PM.

Hello everyone,

The Week 9 Thursday lecture of COMP9517 will be held on Thursday, 15 April, 2-3 PM

It will be delivered through Teams Live.

Join the class by clicking on this link:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join

Project Demo Instructions

Posted by Annette Spooner Wednesday 14 April 2021, 10:35:59 AM.

The project demos will be held during the lecture hours in Week 10:

• Monday April 19th 12-2pm
• Thursday April 22nd 2-4pm

A schedule for the demos is available on the course website under Course Work->Assessments->Project->Project Demo Schedule - 21T1. Please check this schedule carefully to find out the date, time and stream number of your group's demo.

Instructions explaining how the project demos will be run have been posted to the course website under Course Work->Assessments->Project->Project Demo Instructions - 21T1. Please make sure you read these instructions carefully well before the date of the demos.

The demos will be held on Microsoft Teams and the links to the Teams meetings are in the project demos instruction document. Due to a tight schedule, if you miss your slot we will not be able to give you another one. Please join the Teams meeting at least 15 minutes prior to your scheduled time . Please join with your microphone muted so as not to disturb the other demos. You are welcome to stay and watch other demos.

Monday April 12 lecture recording

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Tuesday 13 April 2021, 02:08:59 PM, last modified Tuesday 13 April 2021, 02:10:32 PM.

Dear students,

We had an issue with Microsoft Teams live event when the Monday lecture was delivered and recorded. As a result, we are unable to upload the recording to Moodle. As an intermittent solution, here is the link where you can watch the recording online.

Link to Monday 12 April lecture recording

With the permission of Dr Yang Song, we also obtained the 2020 Term 2 recording of that lecture and uploaded to Moodle. Please be aware however that 2020 Term 2 recording may be slightly different from the one delivered last Monday.

Computer Vision Applications Talk in Week 9 THURSDAY April 15th, 2-3 PM

Posted by Arcot Sowmya Monday 12 April 2021, 04:24:52 PM.

This Friday, we have an invited talk by Robin Hilliard and Dr Kalani Wataraka Gamage from RocketBoots Sydney.

Robin is a regular industry speaker in COMP9517, and we are grateful for his support. Kalani is a recent UNSW alumnus, and we love having her back!

Slides will be uploaded as soon as they are available.

Invited Talk by Robin Hilliard and Dr Kalani Wataraka Gamage , RocketBoots Sydney

Title: Applying Face Recognition Technology Responsibly

Abstract: There are numerous commercial and open source Face Recognition APIs available to software developers, each of them with their own strengths, biases, and weaknesses. No matter how good the API is, it is not enough for the developer to shunt all responsibility for the results to the API creator - checks and balances need to be designed into the software.
In this talk Kalani and Robin will talk about what customers of face recognition technology expect, how recognition results are affected by image quality, training bias and other factors, and what we can do to take these into account when designing face recognition solutions.

Speaker Biography: Kalani Wataraka Gamage is a Machine Learning Engineer with an Electronics Engineering and Signal Processing background. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering (honours) at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2013 and completed Postgraduate Research Diploma in EEG Signal Processing and Classification in 2014. In 2018 she completed her PhD on speech-based emotion recognition at the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at UNSW. She has held several Machine Learning and Data Engineering roles and currently works as a Research Software Developer at Rocketboots.

Robin Hilliard is the founder and CTO of RocketBoots, a software research and development company providing computer vision software to hundreds of retail and financial sites across Australia and New Zealand. He has a BSc in Computer Science and Pure Mathematics from Sydney University. Outside work Robin is about half way through building a robotic greenhouse.

myExperience Survey Now Open

Posted by Annette Spooner Monday 12 April 2021, 08:26:32 AM.

The myExperience survey for T1 2021 is now open. More information can be found here: https://student.unsw.edu.au/myexperience

You can complete your survey via:

• the myExperience link in your Moodle course
• logging in directly to https://myExperience.unsw.edu.au

Please take the time to complete the survey. We appreciate and highly value your constructive feedback as it helps us improve the course for future students.

Teams Live link to Online lecture, Week 9 Monday 12th April, 12-2 PM

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Saturday 10 April 2021, 05:33:20 PM.

Hello everyone,

The Week 9 Monday lecture of COMP9517 will be held on Monday, 12th April 12-2 PM.

It will be delivered through Teams Live.

Join the class by clicking on this link:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join

Week 9 Lecture Slides Available

Posted by Annette Spooner Saturday 10 April 2021, 07:56:43 AM.

The lecture slides for Monday's lectures are now available on the course website under Course Work->Lectures->Week 9.

Project Group Demonstrations - Week 10

Posted by Annette Spooner Friday 09 April 2021, 04:03:43 PM.

In Week 10 you will be required to present and demonstrate your group project. The demonstrations will be held during the normal lecture times. We are currently creating a schedule for these demonstrations and will post it on the course website early next week. All students must attend at least their own demonstration.

As the demonstrations are happening during the normal lecture hours, everyone should be available. But if you have a good reason for not being available at a certain time, please email cs9517@cse.unsw.edu.au urgently and let us know.

Lecture Slides Available

Posted by Annette Spooner Thursday 08 April 2021, 08:11:09 AM.

The lecture slides for today's guest lecture on computer vision applications are now available on the course website under Course Work->Lectures->Week 8.

Computer Vision Applications Talk in Week 8 THURSDAY April 8th, 2-3 PM

Posted by Arcot Sowmya Tuesday 06 April 2021, 01:53:52 PM.

This Thursday we have an invited talk by A/Prof Tomasz Bednarz, School of Art and Design and School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW

Slides will be uploaded as soon as they are available. However, I urge you to attend the lecture, in order to enjoy Tomasz's great visualisations from his projects.

Description: In the time it takes someone to read this abstract, another could solve a detective puzzle if only they had enough quantitative evidence on which to prove their suspicions. But also, one could use visualisation, computer vision and computational tools in combination, to operate huge mining or automate microscopy data pipelines. In this presentation, I shall demonstrate the holistic use of hybrid analytics techniques that use various mixed approaches to link simulations with collaborative, complex and interactive data explorations, placing the human-in-the-loop. In recent times, thanks to advances in graphics hardware and compute power (especially GPGPU and modern Big Data / HPC infrastructures), the opportunities are immense, especially in improving our understanding of complex models that represent the real-world and enable building real-time hybrid computer vision systems like never before. A variety of use caseswill be presented, drawn from my research participation at CSIRO, NIST, QUT and UNSW’s Expanded Perception and Interaction Centre (EPICentre).

Speaker Biography: A/Prof Tomasz Bednarz is Director and Head of Visualisation at the Expanded Perception & Interaction Centre (EPICentre), at UNSW Art & Design and CSE. He is also Research Team Leader at CSIRO’s Data61, leading the Visual Analytics Team in the Software & Computational Systems Research Program. At CSIRO he also leads Simulation and Modelling Cross-Cutting Capability, for Future Science and Technology.

Tomasz's current roles reflect his conviction in a holistic approach to the wicked problems facing the collation, analytics and display of big data. His approach is expansive and encompasses the use of novel technologies (AR, VR, CAVE, Dome, AVIE), often in combination. Over the last couple of years, he has been involved in a wide range of projects in the areas of immersive visualisation, human-computer interaction, computational imaging, image analysis and processing, computer vision, visualisation, simulations, computer graphics, computer games, computational fluid dynamics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and multi-sensor assimilation. He was Conference Chair of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 (SIGGRAPH conferences are the world’s largest, most influential annual meetings and exhibitions in computer graphics and interactive techniques).

Teams Live link to Online lecture, Week 8 Thursday 8 April, 2-3 PM

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Tuesday 06 April 2021, 11:24:30 AM, last modified Tuesday 06 April 2021, 11:28:47 AM.

Hello everyone,

The Week 8 Thursday lecture of COMP9517 will be held on Thursday, 8 April, 2-3 PM

It will be delivered through Teams Live.

Join the class by clicking on this link:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join

Lab 5 Released

Posted by Annette Spooner Tuesday 06 April 2021, 08:38:29 AM, last modified Tuesday 06 April 2021, 10:46:11 AM.

The spec and template for Lab 5 are now available and can be found on the course website under Course Work->Lab Activities->Week 8.

Please note: this lab is for practice only and will not be assessed.

The aim of this lab is to reflect on concepts covered in all lectures of Weeks1-8 and to prepare you for the final exam, which will be in similar style.The goal of this lab is to write a commentary on a scientific paper from the field of computer vision and applications.

To benefit the most from this exercise, students are encouraged to discuss their work with their colleagues and exchange feedback on completed writing, remembering however that the final exam is strictly an individual work.

Public Holiday on Monday - No Lecture

Posted by Annette Spooner Thursday 01 April 2021, 03:42:29 PM.

This is just a reminder that next Monday 5th April is a public holiday in Australia (Easter Monday) so there will not be a lecture on Monday.

Teams Live link to Online lecture, Week 7 Thursday 1 April, 2-3 PM

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Thursday 01 April 2021, 02:10:13 PM, last modified Thursday 01 April 2021, 02:10:36 PM.

Hello everyone,

The Week 7 Thursday lecture of COMP9517 will be held on Thursday, 1 April, 2-3 PM

It will be delivered through Teams Live.

Join the class by clicking on this link:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join

Lecture Slides Available

Posted by Annette Spooner Wednesday 31 March 2021, 06:04:21 PM.

The lecture slides for the Thursday Week 7 lecture are now available on the course website under Course Work->Lectures->Week 7.

Lab 3 Marks Released

Posted by Annette Spooner Monday 29 March 2021, 09:49:34 AM.

The marks for Lab 3 have been released. Please note that late penalties, if any, have not yet been applied, but will be applied at the time of grading. You can access your marks by logging in to your account and typing:

9517 classrun -sturec

To see your marks on WebCMS3:

• Select Timetable
• Select 1PGA or 1UGA (postgraduate/undergraduate)
• Scroll down to Class Roll
• Select the “marks” icon (similar to a bar chart) against your name.

The WebCMS3 system updates overnight so you may not be able to access the marks through WebCMS3 until tomorrow.

Week 7 Lecture Slides Available

Posted by Annette Spooner Monday 29 March 2021, 08:55:27 AM.

The lecture slides for Week 7 are now available on the course website under Course Work->Lectures->Week 7.

Teams Live link to Online lecture, Week 7 Monday 29th March, 12-2 PM

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Sunday 28 March 2021, 09:41:30 PM, last modified Sunday 28 March 2021, 09:50:49 PM.

Hello everyone,

The Week 7 Monday lecture of COMP9517 will be held on Monday, 29th March 12-2 PM.

It will be delivered through Teams Live.

Join the class by clicking on this link:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join

Managing Power Shutdown

Posted by Arcot Sowmya Friday 26 March 2021, 06:26:42 PM.

Dear students

Hope you are doing well and keeping safe.

As announced, we have a power shutdown in CSE starting soon, which will affect CSE computing resources.

To handle any potential impact on your project component deadline, we recommend that you reschedule your work such that this shutdown period is used for other work that does not require a CSE computing resource. Any extension in deadline would be counter-productive, as it will only eat into time for work in the remainder of term.

Thank you for your understanding, and stay safe and well.

Best wishes

Sowmya, LIC 21T1

Reminder - Power Shutdown Tonight!

Posted by Annette Spooner Friday 26 March 2021, 03:05:41 PM.

Dear Students,

This is a reminder that the electricity in the UNSW K17 building, which houses Computer Science & Engineering, will be turned off this weekend for essential work on the electrical switchboards.

All CSE servers will be offline from Friday 26th 19:00 to Saturday 27th 20:00 (Sydney time) :

• all login servers will be down - no ssh or vscode access
• all vlab servers will be down - no access via VNC
• all web servers will be down - no access to class web pages
• all file servers will be down - no access to your files
• there will be no access to other CSE services - no webcms3, give, gitlab, hopper, ...

So please be sure to download any files and resources you might need to your local computer before the shutdown. Other parts of UNSW should be unaffected. This work is in the K17 building only.

We apologize for the inconvenience. This is essential electrical work which has been scheduled to minimize impact on students.

Project Report and Source Code Submission for Individual due Thursday 1 April 16:59

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Thursday 25 March 2021, 03:19:34 PM, last modified Thursday 25 March 2021, 03:21:40 PM.

The Moodle submission links for the report document and source code is now open.

DEADLINE : Thursday 1 April 16:59.

FORMAT : .2 files: 1) report document in PDF file, 2) source code in zip file.

The report and the source code will be submitted using Moodle. The Moodle course website has the submission section as shown here:

Individual report should be of maximum 3 pages (2-column IEEE format).

If you have any issues uploading the files, post it on the forum or send an email to cs9517@cse.unsw.edu.au

Project Groups

Posted by Annette Spooner Tuesday 23 March 2021, 09:16:15 AM.

Please be aware that the Groups section of the website is no longer valid. To check which project group you are in go to Course Work->Assessments->Project. There you will find two items labelled Project Groups - one sorted by student ID and one by group name. Please check the project group lists now to confirm your group and tutor.

Lab 2 Marks Released

Posted by Annette Spooner Monday 22 March 2021, 08:29:37 AM.

The marks for Lab 2 have been released. Please note that late penalties, if any, have not yet been applied, but will be applied at the time of grading. You can access your marks by logging in to your account and typing:

9517 classrun -sturec

To see your marks on WebCMS3:

• Select Timetable
• Select 1PGA or 1UGA (postgraduate/undergraduate)
• Scroll down to Class Roll
• Select the “marks” icon (similar to a bar chart) against your name.

The WebCMS3 system updates overnight so you may not be able to access the marks through WebCMS3 until tomorrow.

Project Spec Updated

Posted by Annette Spooner Sunday 21 March 2021, 10:21:22 AM.

The project spec has been updated and is available on the course website under Course Work->Assessments->Project. It is identical to the previous version except for a plagiarism warning and copyright statement added at the beginning and end respectively.

Re-organised Project Groups

Posted by Annette Spooner Friday 19 March 2021, 09:19:55 PM.

Some of the project groups have been re-organised to ensure that all groups have at least 4 students, so that no group is disadvantaged. Unfortunately one tutor is unable to continue this term, so some groups have been moved to a different tutor.

The new group lists can be found on the course website under Course Work->Assessments->Project. There are two versions - one sorted by student ID and one by group name. Please check the project group lists now to confirm your group and tutor.

Your tutors will contact you to organise project group meetings, starting next week. Please be sure to read the project spec before your first project group meeting and make the most of the time you have with your tutor.

Reminder of Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Policy

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Friday 19 March 2021, 02:25:52 PM, last modified Friday 19 March 2021, 02:29:12 PM.

Dear students,

As the term progresses, you may start experiencing an increased work load and may be tempted to seek and accept external help with your assignments which may be a breach of the University Plagiarism Policy. Please make sure that you read and understand relevant policy documents linked in the Plagiarism Policy section on this website. We already have a number of cases of suspected plagiarism related to the Lab 2 submission that are under investigation, and future assignments carry higher marks and harsher penalties for breaching the code of conduct. We want all students to achieve their full potential in an environment consistent with the University's values and guiding principles.<o:p></o:p>

Kind regards,<o:p></o:p>

COMP9517 Team<o:p></o:p>

Project Marking Criteria

Posted by Annette Spooner Thursday 18 March 2021, 04:04:31 PM.

The marking criteria for the project have now been added to the course website, along with the spec, under Course Work->Assessments->Project.

Week 6 - Flexible Week

Posted by Annette Spooner Thursday 18 March 2021, 03:42:03 PM.

Dear Students,

Next week is Week 6 - a flexible week. There will be no lectures or formal lab sessions, but you are still expected to meet with your tutor so that you can begin work on your project. The project spec has been released, so please read this before next week.

Your tutors will be in touch with you to schedule a meeting time, either during the normal lab hour or at another time that is convenient. Each tutor will meet with each group on Teams for 15 minutes each week. Please make the most of this time and remember the project is a large piece of work that cannot be left until the last minute. Your tutor will answer any questions you have and try to guide you.

Project Spec Released

Posted by Annette Spooner Thursday 18 March 2021, 03:37:30 PM.

The spec for the individual and group project is now available on the course website under Course Work->Assessments->Project. The marking criteria will be available soon.

Lab 4 Submission Link Open

Posted by Annette Spooner Thursday 18 March 2021, 03:33:21 PM.

Lab 4 Submission is now open on the course website and can be found under Course Work->Lab Activities->Week 5.

Today's Lecture Slides Available

Posted by Annette Spooner Thursday 18 March 2021, 10:51:42 AM.

The slides for today's lecture are now available on the course website under Course Work->Lectures->Week 5.

Teams Live link to Online lecture, Week 5 Thursday 18th March, 2-3 PM

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Wednesday 17 March 2021, 09:17:28 AM, last modified Wednesday 17 March 2021, 09:20:42 AM.

Hello everyone,

The Week 5 Thursday lecture of COMP9517 will be held on Thursday, 18th March 2-3 PM.

It will be delivered through Teams Live.

Join the class by clicking on this link:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:mee...

Lab 4 Released

Posted by Annette Spooner Wednesday 17 March 2021, 08:47:31 AM.

The spec for Lab 4 is now available on the course website under Course Work->Lab Activities->Week 5.

Lecture Slides Available

Posted by Annette Spooner Sunday 14 March 2021, 02:49:04 PM.

The lecture slides for Monday's lecture (Week 5) are now available on the course website under Course Work->Lectures->Week 5.

Teams Live link to Online lecture, Week 5 Monday 15th March, 12-2 PM

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Saturday 13 March 2021, 07:47:37 PM, last modified Saturday 13 March 2021, 07:50:51 PM.

Hello everyone,

The Week 5 Monday lecture of COMP9517 will be held on Monday, 15th March 12-2 PM.

It will be delivered through Teams Live.

The new slides will be uploaded over the weekend.

Join the class by clicking on this link:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:mee...

Submission links open

Posted by Annette Spooner Friday 12 March 2021, 07:12:50 PM.

Submissions links are now open for the Assignment (Course Work->Assessments->Assignment) and Lab 3 (Course Work->Lab Activities->Week 4).

Lecture Slides Updated

Posted by Annette Spooner Thursday 11 March 2021, 01:42:39 PM.

Today's lecture slides have been updated and are available on the course website under Course Work->Lectures->Week 4.

Lecture Slides Available

Posted by Annette Spooner Thursday 11 March 2021, 07:56:49 AM.

The lecture slides for today's lecture are now available on the course website under Course Work->Lectures->Week 4.

Teams Live link to Online lecture, Week 4 Thursday 11th March, 2-3 PM

Posted by Arcot Sowmya Tuesday 09 March 2021, 11:22:38 AM.

Hello everyone

The Week 4 Thursday lecture of COMP9517 will be held on 11th March 2-3 PM.

It will be delivered through Teams Live.

Join the class by clicking on this link:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:mee...

Lab 3 Released

Posted by Annette Spooner Tuesday 09 March 2021, 11:09:03 AM.

The spec for Lab 3 is now available on the course website under Course Work->Lab Activities->Week 4.

Lab 2 Solutions Released

Posted by Annette Spooner Tuesday 09 March 2021, 10:58:49 AM.

The solutions to the non-assessable questions in Lab 2 are now available on the course website, under Course Work->Lab Activities->Week 3.

Lab 1 Marks Released

Posted by Annette Spooner Tuesday 09 March 2021, 10:48:59 AM.

The marks for Lab 1 have been released. Please note that late penalties, if any, have not yet been applied, but will be applied at the time of grading. You can access your marks by logging in to your account and typing:

9517 classrun -sturec

To see your marks on WebCMS3:

• Select Timetable
• Select 1PGA or 1UGA (postgraduate/undergraduate)
• Scroll down to Class Roll
• Select the “marks” icon (similar to a bar chart) against your name.

The WebCMS3 system updates overnight so you may not be able to access the marks through WebCMS3 until tomorrow.

Week 4 Lecture Slides Available

Posted by Annette Spooner Saturday 06 March 2021, 07:02:48 PM.

The lecture slides for Monday's lecture are now available on the course website under Course Work->Lectures->Week 4.

Teams Live link to Online lecture, Week 4 Monday 8th March, 12-2 PM

Posted by Arcot Sowmya Friday 05 March 2021, 05:33:51 PM.

Hello everyone

The Week 4 Monday lecture of COMP9517 will be held on Monday, 8th March 12-2 PM.

It will be delivered through Teams Live.

The new slides will be uploaded over the weekend.

Join the class by clicking on this link:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:mee...

Lab 1 Solutions Released

Posted by Annette Spooner Friday 05 March 2021, 02:41:37 PM.

The solutions to the non-assessable questions in Lab 1 are now available on the course website, under Course Work->Lab Activities->Week 2.

Lab 2 Submission Link Open

Posted by Annette Spooner Friday 05 March 2021, 08:26:30 AM.

Lab 2 Submmission is now open on the course website and can be found under Course Work->Lab Activities->Week 3.

Teams Live link to Online lecture, Week 3 Thursday 4th March, 2-3 PM

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Tuesday 02 March 2021, 09:47:22 PM, last modified Wednesday 03 March 2021, 06:49:27 AM.

Hello everyone

The Week 3 Thursday lecture of COMP9517 will be held on 1st March 2-3 PM.

It will be delivered through Teams Live.

Join the class by clicking on this link:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:mee...

Lab 2 Released

Posted by Annette Spooner Tuesday 02 March 2021, 02:37:36 PM.

The spec and image for Lab 2 is now available on the course website under Course Work->Lab Activities->Week 3.

Lab session links in Moodle

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Monday 01 March 2021, 01:33:46 PM, last modified Monday 01 March 2021, 01:51:52 PM.

Dear students,

We have received a number of requests to make Lab session recordings available for viewing after the session. After consulting with the School, we decided to make these recordings available through links in Moodle. The Lab session access in Moodle have been reorganised to accommodate this new feature.

In Moodle, you will see multiple sections labelled with tutor names. You will be able only to open a section if you are in the group for a particular tutor. When the section is opened, you will see the link to your lab sessions and also any recording from previous labs. An example is shown below:

The recordings will be available some time after the lab, when all links are collected and placed in Moodle. In Moodle, you can also find a list of tutors and groups ordered by student's zid.

Please note that the recording can only be made available if your tutor records the session.

Week 3 Lecture Slides Available

Posted by Annette Spooner Friday 26 February 2021, 05:26:50 PM, last modified Friday 26 February 2021, 05:27:08 PM.

The slides for the Week 3 lectures are now available on the course website under Lectures->Week 3.

Teams Live link to Online lecture, Week 3 Monday 1st March, 12-2 PM

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Friday 26 February 2021, 05:19:08 PM, last modified Friday 26 February 2021, 05:22:34 PM.

Hello everyone

The Week 3 Monday lecture of COMP9517 will be held on Monday, 1st March 12-2 PM.

It will be delivered through Teams Live.

Join the class by clicking on this link:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join

Lab 1 submission

Posted by Annette Spooner Friday 26 February 2021, 01:57:40 PM.

Your answers to Lab 1 should be submitted via the WebCMS3 course website. The submission link can be found on the course website under Course Work->Lab Activities->Week 2. The link will only accept a *.zip file, and the maximum file size is 5Mb. Please also see the notice posted by the LIC recently titled "Format for lab submissions".

Assignment Specs Released

Posted by Annette Spooner Friday 26 February 2021, 10:07:25 AM.

The specification for the assignment, marking criteria and images are now available on the course website under Course Work->Assessments->Assignment. The deadline for submission is Week 5 Monday 15 March 2021 , 08:59:59 AEDT. Instructions for submission will be given closer to the deadline.

Updated Image for Lab 1

Posted by Annette Spooner Thursday 25 February 2021, 11:13:58 AM.

The additional image for Lab 1 has been updated. Due to its size, this resource is now a link from which the image file can be downloaded.

Additional Image for Lab 1

Posted by Annette Spooner Thursday 25 February 2021, 08:04:51 AM.

An additional image, that should be used for Question 1 of Lab 1, has been loaded up to the course website and is now available under Course Work->Lab Activities->Week 2.

Lab session links in Moodle are now back online

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Wednesday 24 February 2021, 11:25:14 PM.

Just to let you know that the session links have been corrected and updated and now are back online.

Sessions in Moodle

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Wednesday 24 February 2021, 10:21:27 PM.

Attention all students,

We had some changes in group to tutor assignments. We are takinoff the Black Board Collaborate sessions offline for a while when finalising teams. We will post another message when session links are back online

Finding your lab session in Moodle

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Wednesday 24 February 2021, 08:26:11 PM, last modified Wednesday 24 February 2021, 08:29:50 PM.

Hi all students,

Tomorrow between 3 and 4 pm AEDT you will have your first lab session with your assigned tutor. To find the link to your session, log in into Moodle and click on the link in the "Black Board Collaborate Sessions" section. Only your session's link labelled with your tutor's name will be available to click. All other links will have a message: "Restricted. Not available unless any of ". This is illustrated in the below picture.

In the above example, the only available link is to Bethia's session. Please scroll up and down to find your link.

Good Luck!

Format for lab submissions

Posted by Arcot Sowmya Tuesday 23 February 2021, 04:15:03 PM.

Dear students

Hope you are well and safe.

On lab submission, I have received questions on whether the submission must be via Jupyter notebook, or if a combination of .py and .pdf files could be submitted instead.

It is easier to include markdowns, code, as well as images in a single file by using Jupyter notebook, and we would like to avoid submission of multiple files. Moreover, this also makes it easier to mark the assessments. Images can be shown in the notebook instead of running the .py file then checking the saved images in your pdf file. Therefore we encourage you to move to Jupyter notebook submissions- not only for the labs, but also other future assessments. Therefore it is worth your time learning how to do this. Do ask your tutor if you need help with this.

For Lab1, .py files will still be accepted, provided the submission contains additional file(s) with all required visual output + written answers, and all file zipped into a single file for submission.

Best wishes

Sowmya

Lab 1 Released

Posted by Annette Spooner Tuesday 23 February 2021, 10:07:56 AM.

The spec for Lab 1 is now available on the course website under Course Work->Lab Activities->Week 2.

Thursday's Lecture Slides Available

Posted by Annette Spooner Monday 22 February 2021, 06:26:33 PM.

The slides for this Thursday's lecture are now available on the course website under Lectures->Week 2.

Teams Live link to online lecture, Week 2 Thursday Feb 25th, 2-3 PM

Posted by Arcot Sowmya Monday 22 February 2021, 03:18:03 PM.

Hello everyone

The Week 2 Thursday lecture of COMP9517 will be held on Thursday, 25th Feb, 2-3 PM.

It will be delivered through Teams Live.

Join the class by clicking on this link:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:mee...

Lecture recording transcripts

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Monday 22 February 2021, 10:47:21 AM, last modified Monday 22 February 2021, 10:50:13 AM.

Lecture recording transcripts are now available for the past lectures and will be available from now on. To activate, click on the transcript button in the top right of the lecture video.

Project Groups

Posted by Annette Spooner Monday 22 February 2021, 10:31:31 AM.

All students have now been allocated to a project group. If you did not form your own group, please check the group you have been allocated to, under Groups on the course website.

Please do not create any new groups - the maximum number we can accommodate is 60 and we have 60 groups now. We will accept requests for changes only until 9am tomorrow (Tuesday), provided you have a good reason and provided it is possible to accommodate your request within the existing group structure. Team Messina is full, despite showing only 3 students (due to late enrolment), so please do not try to switch to that group.

Teams Live link to Online lecture, Week 2 Monday 22nd Feb, 12-2 PM

Posted by Arcot Sowmya Friday 19 February 2021, 09:40:41 PM, last modified Friday 19 February 2021, 09:45:53 PM.

Hello everyone

The Week 2 Monday lecture of COMP9517 will be held on Monday, 22nd Feb 12-2 PM.

It will be delivered through Teams Live. The Image Processing slides already uploaded in Week 1 will be continued.

Join the class by clicking on this link:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:mee...

Reminder to form your project groups

Posted by Annette Spooner Friday 19 February 2021, 07:20:46 PM.

Please don't forget to form your project groups and register them on the course website. Instructions were given in a previous email. Anyone who has not been able to join a group by 9am on Monday will be allocated to a group.

Demo Code Available

Posted by Annette Spooner Thursday 18 February 2021, 05:48:31 PM.

The code and images that were demonstrated during today's lecture are now available on the course website under Lectures->Week 1->Week 1 - Lecture Demos (21T1).

Thursday's Lecture Slides Available

Posted by Annette Spooner Wednesday 17 February 2021, 10:36:28 AM.

The slides for Thursday's lecture - Image Processing Part 1 - are now available on the course website under Lectures->Week 1.

Teams Live link to Online lecture, Thursday 18th Feb, 2-4 PM

Posted by Arcot Sowmya Tuesday 16 February 2021, 01:17:34 PM, last modified Tuesday 16 February 2021, 01:21:07 PM.

Hello everyone

Hope you are safe and well.

The next lecture of COMP9517 will be held on Thursday, 18th Feb 2-4 PM.

It will be delivered through Teams Live.

Slides will be uploaded by Wednesday..

Join the class by clicking on this link:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:mee...

Lecture Recording

Posted by Alfred Krzywicki Monday 15 February 2021, 04:55:22 PM, last modified Monday 15 February 2021, 04:57:08 PM.

Lecture recording for Lecture 1 is now available on Moodle .

All future lecture recordings will also be accessible through Moodle a couple of hours after the lecture is ended.

Please form your Project Groups

Posted by Annette Spooner Monday 15 February 2021, 03:10:26 PM.

Labs for COMP9517 will begin in Week 2 and the Lab hour is scheduled for Thursday 3-4pm. As you know COMP9517 also has a group project. A tutor will be assigned to mentor you for your labs and the group project, so you will have the opportunity to get to know that tutor throughout the term.

Please form your project groups this week and we will create lab groups by combining project groups. There must be 5 students in each project group. If anyone has not been able to form a group by Monday 22 ^nd February, we will allocate you to a group.

As the course is being run online, you may not have the opportunity to meet other students from the course in person. But we have set up a class team in Microsoft Teams, to which you have all been added. Here you will be able to see the names of other students in the course.

To see who is in the course:

1. Find the Team called CLS-COMP9517_T1_5213
2. Beside the team name, click More options > Manage team
3. In the Members tab, under Members and Guests, is a list of students in the class

To register your project groups:

1. On the course web page on WebCMS3, go to Groups and click on Create (top right).
2. Enter your group's name (inappropriate group names will not be accepted).
3. Make sure you select " Group Project " from the Group Type drop-down.
4. You can then add other students to your group by clicking on the add button.
5. Alternatively, you can click on the Join button beside the name of an existing group to join it.

If you have any problems, please post on the forum.

Student Support Services

Posted by Annette Spooner Sunday 14 February 2021, 02:39:12 PM.

Information about student support services has been posted to the course website under Lectures->Student Support Services. If you need help with personal issues, counselling, academic skills or other matters, you will find information here.

Week 1 Lecture Slides Available

Posted by Annette Spooner Friday 12 February 2021, 03:31:49 PM.

The lecture slides for week 1 are now available on the course website under Course Work->Lectures->Week 1.

Teams Live link to Online lecture, Monday 15th Feb, 12-2 PM

Posted by Arcot Sowmya Friday 12 February 2021, 12:17:57 PM, last modified Friday 12 February 2021, 12:18:31 PM.

Hello everyone

The first lecture of COMP9517 will be held on Monday, 15th Feb 12-2 PM. It will be delivered through Teams Live.

Slides will be uploaded before Monday.

Join the class by clicking on this link:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:mee...

Welcome to COMP 9517, T1 2021 edition

Posted by Arcot Sowmya Monday 08 February 2021, 09:05:55 AM.

Dear COMP 9517 students

Welcome to COMP 9517. The draft course outline is available via the link on the left panel.

Classes will start on Monday week 1. Details of the online platform and the link will be sent later this week.

See you all then.

Best wishes

Sowmya and the COMP9517 team