Dear Students,
By now you should have received an email from the school about your exam time, location, and seat.
See https://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~exam/24T3/seating/register.cgi/allocations/ and log in for details.
If you can't find your exam details there, please contact the school directly via cse.exams@unsw.edu.au.
Please note that the exam allocations are not handled by the COMP9517 team, but by the school, so it's best to contact them.
Best regards,
Erik
Dear Students,
If you have formally applied for special consideration and have been granted a supp exam for COMP9517 this term, you should soon receive more detailed information from the School regarding the exact time and location.
All we know at this moment is that the supp exam will take place on Tuesday 21 January 2025. Like the original exam, it will be an in-person exam in the CSE labs and consist of multiple-choice questions only.
Best regards,
Erik
Dear Students,
The peer review for all groups is now open. This is for each member of the group to enter a participation percentage for all their own group members, including themselves. Please complete this activity by Friday, 22 November 2024, 6:00 PM.
To enter the peer-review, log in into Moodle and click on
Review your project team contribution.
Click 'Add submission' and submit an empty file. You will be taken to the review page, where you can select the percentages of all team member contributions, and optionally add comments (refer image below for the interface with a slider and comments section). Comments, if any, should include a statement about your own contribution and contributions of all other members. If applicable, please add links to any supporting evidence.
Please do not submit your comments/ peer-evaluation in a file under the assignment file submission link as it is only used to enable the percentage slider & comments section. Please submit an empty file there.
IMPORTANT :
If you do not follow these steps your comments might be viewable by other group members.
Please follow the instructions and post further questions on Ed.
Please note:
all group members must enter their peer-review. The project marking will not be completed unless all members fill this in.
Best regards, Piumi.
Hi Students,
We have compiled a series of example exam questions (with answers). See WebCMS3 > COMP9517 24T2 > Course Work > Assessments > Exam. The document also provides some further information about the exam.
The main purpose of the exam, as reflected in the example questions, is to test your knowledge and understanding of the concepts and methods taught in the course. Some questions may involve simple calculations related to these.
Good luck preparing for the exam in the coming weeks! If anything is unclear, please post your questions on the forum.
Cheers,
Erik
Dear Students,
The school informed us that there are CSE-wide issues affecting teaching servers. Some of you have already experienced difficulties submitting your group project deliverables today. The school's computer support team is working hard to fix the issues as soon as possible. Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, we decided to extend the submission deadline until Monday 18 December 2024 at 9AM Sydney time.
Best regards,
Erik
Dear Students,
Following up on the message I posted yesterday regarding this week's lectures:
The Wednesday lecture session will be hosted by A/Professor Yang Song and myself, and thus will be most suited for those of you who have questions about the lectures of weeks 1-5 and 9.
The Thursday lecture session will be hosted by Dr Sonit Singh and myself, and will focus on the lectures of weeks 7 and 8 about deep learning, though you can still ask questions about the other weeks as well.
Cheers,
Erik
Dear Students,
We have come to the final lecture week of this term, and no doubt you are all very busy completing the group project. Since we have already covered a lot of topics in the past weeks, we have decided to teach no new examinable material this week .
The two lecture time slots this week, Wednesday 2-4pm and Thursday 4-6pm, will instead be used as consultation sessions with the lecturers . If you have any questions about the concepts and methods we have presented, and would like us to revisit things, please use this opportunity to chat with us online using the links on Moodle as usual.
Also, tomorrow we will make several guest lectures available on Echo360 , given by colleagues in the school and collaborators, showcasing advanced applications of computer vision. These lectures have already been recorded and you can watch them at a time that suits you, or you can use the Wednesday and Thursday lecture time slots for that if you have no questions.
Best regards,
Erik, Yang, Sonit
Hi everyone, the video recordings of both Week 9 lectures are now available on Echo360 (see link on Moodle or WebCMS3 > Course Work > Lectures). Cheers, Erik
Hi Students,
Apologies for the late notice, but due to unforeseen circumstances, today's lecture will be online only, not on campus. Please follow the link on Moodle to enter the livestream, as usual. Tomorrow's lecture is still planned to be held in hybrid mode (on campus and online at the same time).
Best wishes,
Erik
Hi everyone, the slides of the Week 9 lectures on motion estimation and object tracking are now available under WebCMS3 > COMP9517 > Course Work > Lectures > Week 9. Cheers, Erik
Hi Students,
Thanks to all of you who have completed the myExperience survey so far. If you haven't yet participated, you can find the myExperience link on your Moodle course page or look for the link in your student email.
Your honest and constructive feedback is valued, and helps not only students taking this course, but myself and teaching staff across UNSW to create positive changes in their courses moving forward. Your thoughts also make a difference for the next group of students taking these courses, just as thoughts from students taking courses you plan to take make a difference for you.
Please know that 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.
Thanks,
Erik
Dear Students,
Annalise Tran from the RoboCup@Home team asked me to share the following message:
RoboCup is an international competition and conference that is at the forefront of Robotics and AI development. You may have heard of the soccer robots, but did you know that there are many other leagues that partake in the competition?
One of those is the RoboCup@Home league where our aim is to build and develop general purpose robots that can help in domestic environments. Being part of the team is an exciting opportunity to see many components such as computer vision, robotic manipulation and navigation, NLP and knowledge representation all working together in real-world applications.
We are looking for enthusiastic students to get involved! For our computer vision work in particular we are looking at improving our object detection model, generating grasp points and creating a data generation pipeline. If you are interested or have any questions, please contact robocup.home@cse.unsw.edu.au
Please contact Annalise Tran directly using the above email address.
Best regards,
Erik
Dear Students,
The slides and video recordings of the Week 8 Lectures are now available.
You can find slides under WebCMS3 > COMP9517 > Course Work > Lectures > Week 8 and lecture video recordings on Echo360 (see link on Moodle or WebCMS3 > Course Work > Lectures).
If you have any questions, please post them on the Ed Forum.
Cheers,
Sonit
Dear students,
The marks for Lab4 has been released. You can access your marks by logging in to your account and typing:
9517 classrun -sturec
To see your marks on WebCMS3:
The WebCMS3 system updates overnight so you may not be able to access the marks through WebCMS3 until tomorrow.
Andrew
Dear Students,
The COMP9517 24T3 final exam has been scheduled for Tuesday 3 December 2024 and will be on campus in the CSE labs.
More specifically, the exam will be 2 hours (max) plus 15 minutes setup. Since we have more students in the course than we can accommodate in the CSE labs, the exam will be in two sessions (with corralling to prevent communication between groups).
The times of the two sessions are 10:45-13:00 and 13:25-15:40. We do not know yet who will sit in what session. Closer to the exam period, the school will provide more details about the procedure and if/how you can sign up for a particular session.
The final exam will consist of multiple-choice questions. The sample questions included at the end of the lectures are representative of the sort of questions you can expect. We plan to release some more sample questions by the end of Week 10.
To be continued,
Erik
Dear Students,
The slides and video recording of the Week 7 Lecture 2 are now available.
You can find slides under WebCMS3 > COMP9517 > Course Work > Lectures > Week 7 and lecture video recordings on Echo360 (see link on Moodle or WebCMS3 > Course Work > Lectures).
If you have any questions, please post them on the Ed Forum.
Cheers,
Sonit
Dear Students,
The slides and video recording of the Week 7 Lecture 1 are now available.
You can find slides under WebCMS3 > COMP9517 > Course Work > Lectures > Week 7 and lecture video recordings on Echo360 (see link on Moodle or WebCMS3 > Course Work > Lectures).
If you have any questions, please post them on the Ed Forum.
Cheers,
Sonit
Dear students,
The marks for Lab3 has been released. You can access your marks by logging in to your account and typing:
9517 classrun -sturec
To see your marks on WebCMS3:
The WebCMS3 system updates overnight so you may not be able to access the marks through WebCMS3 until tomorrow.
Andrew
Hi Students,
Alice Sun, an Associate Lecturer in the UNSW Business School, is conducting research on international students' experiences of and responses to assessment and feedback in Australian universities.
She is looking for dual-degree students to participate in a survey. All responses will be kept confidential. Click this link to access the survey . If you have any questions, please email Alice Sun directly .
Cheers,
Erik
Dear students,
The marks for Lab2 has been released. You can access your marks by logging in to your account and typing:
9517 classrun -sturec
To see your marks on WebCMS3:
The WebCMS3 system updates overnight so you may not be able to access the marks through WebCMS3 until tomorrow.
Andrew
Hi Students,
Project groups have now been finalised. You can find your group in Assessments > Group Project > Project Groups. This list will be the official list used, please disregard anything in the groups tab, that will no longer matter. Each group should have 4/5 members and all students should have been assigned into a group. Please note that you must complete the project in the groups you have been assigned. Please get in touch with your group members. There won't be any opportunity to change groups.
If you have any concerns please email us at cs9517@cse.unsw.edu.au
Good luck!
Andrew
Hi Students,
The group project specification and marking criteria are now available under WebCMS3 > COMP9517 > Course Work > Assessments > Group Project.
As announced earlier today, the course admins will finalise and announce the project groups on Sunday. In the meantime, have a look at the project specification so you're already up to speed when you start discussing with your group next week.
Have a great time in the coming weeks developing computer vision methods and solving the described problem with your group. We look forward to seeing the results in Week 10.
The weekly tutorial sessions continue in Weeks 6-10. Do make use of them to get feedback if you have any questions, or suggestions when you're feeling stuck. The tutors are there to help you.
Cheers,
Erik
Hi Students,
Just a reminder to form your group projects of 5 (if you'd like to). We will be finalising groups on Sunday at which point there will be no more opportunity to change groups. At this time we will also assign any students without a group to one, and fill up any groups with less than 5 members.
Thanks,
Andrew
Hi everyone, the video recordings of both Week 5 lectures are now available on Echo360 (see link on Moodle or WebCMS3 > Course Work > Lectures). Cheers, Erik
Hi everyone, the slides of the Week 5 lectures on image segmentation are now available under WebCMS3 > COMP9517 > Course Work > Lectures > Week 5. Cheers, Erik
Dear students,
The marks for Lab1 has been released. You can access your marks by logging in to your account and typing:
9517 classrun -sturec
To see your marks on WebCMS3:
The WebCMS3 system updates overnight so you may not be able to access the marks through WebCMS3 until tomorrow.
Andrew
Hi Students,
The Lab 4 specification is now available under WebCMS3 > COMP9517 > Course Work > Assessments > Lab 4.
The topic is image segmentation and morphological (post)processing, which is covered in this week's lectures.
The deadline for Lab 4 submission is Week 7, Monday 21 October 2024, 18:00:00 Sydney time.
If you have any questions, feel free to discuss with your tutors this week or ask on the forum.
Cheers,
Erik
Hi everyone, the video recordings of both Week 4 lectures are now available on Echo360 (see link on Moodle or WebCMS3 > Course Work > Lectures). If you have any further questions about the content, please post them on Ed and the team will respond as soon as possible. Cheers, Erik
Hi everyone, the slides of the Week 4 lectures are now available under WebCMS3 > COMP9517 > Course Work > Lectures > Week 4. Cheers, Yang
Hi Students,
The Lab 3 specification is now available under WebCMS3 > COMP9517 > Course Work > Assessments > Lab 3.
The topic is image classification, which is covered in this week's lectures on pattern recognition.
The deadline for Lab 3 submission is Week 5, Friday 11 October 2024, 18:00:00 Sydney time.
If you have any questions, feel free to discuss with your tutors this week or ask on the forum.
Cheers,
Erik
Hi everyone, the video recordings of both Week 3 lectures are now available on Echo360 (see link on Moodle or WebCMS3 > Course Work > Lectures). If you have any further questions about the content, please post them on Ed and the team will respond as soon as possible. Cheers, Erik
Hi everyone, the slides of the Week 3 lectures are now available under WebCMS3 > COMP9517 > Course Work > Lectures > Week 3. Cheers, Yang
Hi Students,
The Lab 2 specification is now available under WebCMS3 > COMP9517 > Course Work > Assessments > Lab 2.
The topic is the Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT), which is covered in this week's lectures by A/Prof Yang Song.
The deadline for Lab 2 submission is Week 4, Friday 4 October 2024, 18:00:00 Sydney time.
If you have any questions, feel free to discuss with your tutors this week or ask on the forum.
Cheers,
Erik
Hi everyone, the video recordings of both Week 2 lectures are now available on Echo360 (see link on Moodle or WebCMS3 > Course Work > Lectures). If you have any further questions about the content, please post them on Ed and the team will respond as soon as possible. Cheers, Erik
Dear all, the UNSW RoboCup Soccer Standard Platform League team is recruiting and they asked me to extend the call to COMP9517 students to do some exciting work in robot vision. See their website for more information. Applications close this Friday. Cheers, Erik
Hi Students,
I have updated the spreadsheet for the tutorial groups. Please note, there shouldn't have been any changes made unless you have contacted us via email, so not to worry for most of you. We have had to swap a few tutors in the Thursday sessions around so don't worry if the names don't exactly match what you initially saw, the links on Moodle are correct and should take you to the right tute.
Let us know if you have any concerns at cs9517@cse.unsw.edu.au.
Andrew
Hi everyone, the slides of the Week 2 lectures are now available under WebCMS3 > COMP9517 > Course Work > Lectures > Week 2. Cheers, Erik
Hi Students,
The Lab 1 specification is now available under WebCMS3 > COMP9517 > Course Work > Assessments > Lab 1.
Please note that some of the lab topics are covered in this week's lectures. So don't stress out when you read the lab specification and there are things in there that you haven't heard about yet.
Just repeating what I said in an earlier post: Each lab is about topics taught in the lectures of the same week. We release the lab specification early in the week to give you more time to have a look before coming to the lectures and prepare for the tutor session of that week.
The deadline for Lab 1 submission is Week 3, Friday 27 September 2024, 18:00:00 Sydney time.
If you have any questions, feel free to discuss with your tutors this week or ask on the forum.
The link to your tutor session can be found on the Moodle page under Online Tutorials.
Cheers,
Erik
Hi Students,
This week tutorials will start. Everyone should have been allocated to a Tutorial, which you can find in Tutorials>Tutorial Groups. Please let us know ASAP if you cannot see your zID in the list by emailing cs9517@cse.unsw.edu.au . Students should be able to see links in Moodle in the next day or so to join their tutorial.
As you might know, towards the end of this term, you will be completing a project in groups of 5. Students can form groups in the Groups section of webcms. Please note that forming groups is optional, students without a group will be assigned to one, and groups with less that 5 members will have additional members assigned to them. Also, students do not need to be in the same tutorial to join the same project group.
Have a great experience this term and let us know if there are any issues!
Regards,
Andrew
Hi Students, just a kind reminder that the national Student Experience Survey (SES) is open from 12 September to 13 October 2024. See the link in the Moodle page of the course. You are highly encouraged to fill out the survey. Cheers, Erik
Hi everyone, the video recordings of both Week 1 lectures are now available on Echo360 (see link on Moodle or WebCMS3 > Course Work > Lectures). If you have any further questions about the content, please post them on Ed and the team will respond as soon as possible. Cheers, Erik
Hi Students,
As mentioned in yesterday's lecture, the labs and online tutor sessions will start next week . The course admin will soon inform you which tutor group you're part of and how to access your tutor session.
In all labs in this course, you are required to submit your code in the form of a Jupyter Notebook (.ipynb file). Submissions in any other form will not be marked.
If you're not yet familiar with Jupyter, or Python, or OpenCV, you are highly encouraged to install the necessary software and learn the basics before the labs start . To help you with that, we have prepared a document with useful links. See WebCMS3 > Course Work > Assessments > Lab Preparations.
In the first tutor session, the tutors can help you with any questions about the software and the lab tasks . We plan to release the first lab early next week so that you can already have a look before coming to the session.
Please note that each lab is about topics taught in the lectures of the same week . Since the tutor sessions are centrally scheduled after the first lecture of the week, the lab specification may not make much sense to you until after the lecture. But at least it should give you some idea of what's expected and it will become clearer after you've heard the lectures.
To give you multiple opportunities to ask questions about any lab, we aim to release each lab early in the week, with a due date late the week after , so that there are always two tutor sessions between the release date and the due date. And, of course, you can always ask anything via the Q+A Forum on Ed.
Cheers,Hi everyone, the slides of the Week 1 lectures are now available under WebCMS3 > COMP9517 > Course Work > Lectures > Week 1. Cheers, Erik
Hi Students,
The online lectures will be streamed via Blackboard Collaborate. The lecture links can be found on the Moodle page of the course, under Online Lectures (expand the section to see the links). Where possible, the slides will be made available via WebCMS3 before the lecture (except the first lecture) under Course Work > Lectures.
Cheers,
Erik
Dear Students,
Throughout the term there will be various ways to ask questions and get answers:
1. During the lectures. Certainly in the class room. If you're following the lectures online, you should be able to use the chat function to post questions about the presented materials at any time. With so many students we'll have to see how it works, technically and timewise, for the lecturer to actually pick them up during the lecture. Otherwise, see options 2 and 3 below.
2. Every week (except the first week) there will be a 1-hour tutor session (separate from the lectures) during which you can consult with the tutors of your tutor group regarding the labs and group project (more details on these will follow next week). Tutor groups will be created soon and we will post the links ahead of time.
3. At any time, you can post questions in the Q+A forum. You will find the link to this forum in the menu on WebCMS3. The platform we are using for this is Ed. Please sign up and enroll as soon as possible using your UNSW email address to get access. The team will attempt to answer questions within 24 hours.
Best wishes,Dear Students,
Welcome to COMP9517 2024 Term 3 starting next week . I hope you're all doing well and are ready to learn about Computer Vision!
Please have a look at the Course Outline (available in ECOS via the menu on WebCMS3) for more details on what to expect and what's expected in this course.
The course will be delivered in hybrid mode . That is, both the Wednesday and the Thursday lectures will be on campus and online at the same time, as per the Timetable (see the menu on WebCMS3). Links to the online lectures will be provided early next week (on the Moodle page of the course).
Please come to the on-campus lectures only if you signed up for them . This is because the room (Keith Burrows Theatre) has a maximum capacity of only 438 while we have 800+ students in the course this term. Of course, the lectures will be recorded, so you can also just watch them afterwards (attendance is not compulsory).
In the past few years we have broken the record in terms of student numbers every new term, which keeps challenging us. Clearly, interest in computer vision and its many applications is growing rapidly. Please bear with us as we do our best solving technical challenges in making the course an enjoyable experience for you.
While the lectures and the final exam will be on campus, everything else will be online this term. We will keep you posted weekly via WebCMS3 to help you stay on track with all activities.
On behalf of the entire COMP9517 24T3 Team, which includes Co-Lecturers A/Prof. Yang Song and Dr Sonit Singh, the two Course Admins Andrew Gunawan and Piumi Don Simonge, and our 30 Tutors, I wish you a great time learning about Computer Vision!
If anything is unclear,
use the Q+A Forum on Ed for any questions about the course
(see the link in the menu on WebCMS3). The forum is monitored daily and we do our best to answer within 24 hours.
Erik Meijering
Lecturer in Charge