Dear Students,
Now that the group project specification has been released, the weekly tutorial sessions henceforth will focus on the group project. Notice that we do offer tutorial sessions this week too (even though that is not indicated in the official timetable).
Also, from this week on, we allow you to attend any tutorial session you want (see the timetable for times and locations). So even if your group members were previously in different sessions, you can now all attend the same session if you want.
The primary goal of the sessions is to answer any questions you and your group may have about the project specification, or to get suggestions for possible directions if you feel stuck, or feedback on your progress if you wish.
So you are highly encouraged to come to these sessions well prepared. If everything is clear, and your group is progressing well, there is no need to attend the tutorial sessions. The tutors will not be giving extensive introductions or explanations but are there to listen to you and help you with any project related questions or problems.
If you have general questions or remarks that could be helpful for all groups in your session, feel free to raise them in the main room. If, on the other hand, you have specific questions that are not relevant to other groups, or you want to show something that you do not want to share with other groups, you can ask a tutor to go into a breakout room.
Of course the forum also continues to be a place to get feedback as well.
Best regards,
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
Please note that marks may not be available through webcms anymore, so please use the above command.
Let us know ASAP if there are any issues
Andrew
Hi Students,
We have now finalised the groups you will be working in for you projects. Please find the list under assessments>Group Project>Project Group Assignments. Please note that we will no longer be using the groups function in webcms, please refer to this csv from now on as this is how you will be marked.
All students should be in the groups they join via webcms by last week Friday, or assigned to some group if you didn't join a webcms group. There should also be 4 or 5 members in the groups. As noted in the previous posts, no changing of groups will be possible unless in extreme circumstances. Forgetting to join a group on webcms will not be considered a reasonable excuse.
Let us know if there are any problems and contact your members as soon as possible.
Hope you enjoy the project!
Andrew
Hi Students,
The group project specification and marking criteria are now available under WebCMS3 > COMP9517 > Course Work > Assessments > Group Project.
The course admins will finalise and announce the project groups very soon. In the meantime, have a look at the project specification so you're already up to speed when you start discussing with your group.
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 get suggestions when you're feeling stuck. The tutors are there to help you.
Cheers,
Erik
Hi Students,
This is a final reminder to form your project groups using the groups function in webcms. Please do this by the end of Friday this week (17/10).
We will be finalising the groups over the weekend and no further changes will be possible after that.
If your group consists of less than 5 member or you are not in a group by the deadline, that is fine, we will help match you up and fill existing groups or make new ones.
Hope the term is going well.
Andrew
Hi Students,
The Lab 4 specification is now available under WebCMS3 > COMP9517 > Course Work > Assessments > Lab 4.
The topic is image segmentation and subsequent object classification, the focus of this week's lectures.
The deadline for Lab 4 submission is Week 7, Monday 27 October 2025, 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
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
Please note that marks may not be available through webcms anymore, so please use the above command.
Let us know ASAP if there are any issues
Andrew
Dear Students,
Several of you have been emailing us lab submissions in the past hours because of issues with submitting via WebCMS3. Please do your best to reduce the file size and submit per the official route, either by uploading via the submission link or via give (see instructions on WebCMS3). You can do this by reducing the resolution of the images as all other student have also done. We will waive late penalties for submission tonight. I hope you can appreciate that in a course with more than 1,000 students we need to use the official means of submission to make it manageable.
Best regards,
Erik
Dear Students,
I hope you all had a wonderful long weekend!
As this week’s first live lecture was not held due to the public holiday, I have recorded Week 4: Pattern Recognition – Part 1, which is now available on Echo360.
Please make sure to watch the recording before our next scheduled lecture on Thursday, as Part 2 will build upon the concepts and terminology introduced in Part 1.
If you have any questions, please post them on the course forum or ask me during the next lecture.
Best wishes,
Sonit
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 by Dr Sonit Singh.
The deadline for Lab 3 submission is Week 5, Friday 17 October 2025, 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 school informed me that the technical issues I mentioned yesterday have been solved. So you should now be able to fetch your lab submission and verify it. Best regards, Erik
Hi Students,
Just letting you know that at the moment we are experiencing some technical issues that are outside our control, meaning there is no point in contacting us about these issues and we will all just have to wait until they are solved by the school:
Lab submission verification issues
As you may have seen, when you submit your lab, there's a statement about your responsibility to ensure your submitted files are not empty or corrupt. Submissions that are empty or cannot be opened will not be eligible for remarking.
There are a couple of things you can do to make sure your submissions are correct. First, upon submission, you should see a confirmation message on the WebCMS3 submission page. Review it carefully. If your submission is listed as having 0 size, it is empty. If not, then at least you know something has been submitted.
Second, the submission page says you can verify what you have actually submitted by using the following command in the Vlab terminal. For example for Lab 1: 9517 classrun -fetch Lab1
Normally this should work. However, the school told us that the fetch script isn't handling elevated permissions correctly at the moment. They are working on this and it should hopefully be fixed in the next few days.
Until then, if your submission turns out to be corrupt, we will by way of exception allow resubmission, but only if 1) you can show the submission confirmation message proving that your original submission was not empty (0 bytes) and 2) your resubmitted file has the exact same size and timestamp as your original submission.
Class email alias issues
The school also informed us that for unknown reasons, CSE email aliases stopped working overnight. Unfortunately, this includes class email aliases, so at the moment emails to cs9517@cse.unsw.edu.au will bounce. Hopefully that too will be fixed soon. Please post your messages on the forum.
Best wishes,
Erik
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 Dr Sonit Singh.
The deadline for Lab 2 submission is Week 4, Friday 10 October 2025, 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 Students,
We've released a sample notebook under the Tutorials heading similar to what you have/will go through with your tutors this week. Hopefully it might be helpful while you get started this week.
Regards,
Andrew
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.
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 and prepare.
The deadline for Lab 1 submission is Week 3, Friday 3 October 2025, 18:00:00 Sydney time.
If you have any questions about this lab, feel free to discuss with your tutors this week or next, or ask on the forum.
The link to your tutor session can be found on the Moodle page under Online Tutorials.
Cheers,
Erik
Hi Everyone,
We have now assigned students to their tutorial groups/times. You can find this pdf under the tutorials section. These times should respect the slot you have chosen through myUNSW. Please check that the time you are assigned to is correct (the day + start time). Please let us know via cs9517@cse.unsw.edu.au if you believe this is incorrect or are not included in the list.
Otherwise, early next week, you will see a link in Moodle to join your tute when it starts. For those with an in person tute, you can just show up to MathewsThB.
As Erik mentioned, while we have split you up into smaller groups to make the tutes more manageable, this does not mean you cannot form a project group with students from other tutes. While we cannot swap your tute times currently, there will be an opportunity to swap in later weeks around week 5. We will release additional information closer to this time.
Regards,
Andrew
Hi Students,
Some of you have been asking whether they can form a project group even if group members are in different tutorial sessions. Yes, this is possible. Let me clarify things a little bit more here. Please read carefully.
There are five tutorial time slots (see Timetable on WebCMS3) and each of you is enrolled in one of them. Currently enrollments are closed and all five tutorials are full and we cannot move you around at this time. However, this is no problem in Weeks 2-5, when the focus is on the Labs, which are individual assignments.
Even though you are in a particular tutorial time slot, you will still be further split into smaller tutor groups. Each tutor group will have two tutors. We will inform you early next week at the latest which tutor group you're in. If you are in an online tutorial, the link to your specific weekly session will be posted on Moodle. If you are in the in-person tutorial, you already know where to go.
For the group project starting in Week 6, you are free to team up with other students to form a group yourself. We do allow groups consisting of both undergraduates and postgraduates; that's all up to you. Please form your group here on WebCMS3 under Groups. A project group must consist of 5 students (no more, no less).
Check and make sure you carefully register all members of your group here. We allow group formation and changes until the end of Week 5. Then we finalize the groups, and no more changes will be allowed. Any student who is not in a group by then, will be randomly allocated to either a new group or an existing group having less than 5 students.
While the groups are fixed then, from Week 6 on we will allow students of the same project group to all go to the same tutor group if they want. We will provide more details around that time on how we will implement this. Note that being part of different tutor groups instead of the same tutor group has its advantages too: it enables you to get input from different tutors.
If you have any further questions about this, please post them on the forum.
Cheers,
Erik
Hi Students,
As mentioned in yesterday's lecture, the labs and online tutor consultation sessions will start in Week 2 (not Week 1). The course admins 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 (Week 2), 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 . This means that when the lab specification is released early in the week, some (or all) of the tasks may not be totally clear to you until after the lectures. But at least it gives you some idea of what's expected and it will become clearer while listening to 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.
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 a 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 tutorial session (separate from the lectures) during which you can consult with the tutors of your tutor group regarding the labs and the group project (more details on these will follow). 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. 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 2025 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 Monday and the Thursday lectures will be on campus and online at the same time (11:00-13:00), as per the Timetable (see the menu on WebCMS3). Links to the online lectures are available via the Moodle page of the course (under Lecture Recordings).
Please come to the on-campus lectures only if you signed up for them . This is because there are way more students in the course than the maximum capacity of the room (OShane 104), so we would have a problem if more students showed up. Of course, the lectures will be recorded, so you can also just watch them afterwards (lecture attendance is not mandatory).
Most tutorials will be held online. This term we do have one on-campus tutorial group, and the same applies here as for the lectures, for the same reason (limited space in MathewsThB): please come to the on-campus tutorials only if you signed up for them . Note that for privacy reasons, neither the on-campus nor the online tutorials will be recorded, so do attend these sessions at the indicated times if you want to make use of them (they are not mandatory though).
In the past few years, even since last term, the course has grown significantly in terms of student numbers, 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.
On behalf of the entire COMP9517 25T3 Team, which includes Co-Lecturer Dr Sonit Singh and our two Course Admins Andrew Gunawan and Haonan Zhong, and our 28 Tutors, I wish you a great time learning about Computer Vision!
We will keep you posted weekly via WebCMS3 to help you stay on track with all activities. If anything is unclear,
use the Q&A Forum 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