COMP9517 Notices

Lab 1 Specification Released

Posted by Yang Song Monday 23 February 2026, 10:54:12 AM.

Hi everyone,

The Lab 1 specification is now available under WebCMS3 > Course Work > Assessments > Lab 1.

The topics in this lab are covered primarily in the lectures on Week 1 Friday and Week 2 Monday, with part of Task 3 covered on Week 2 Friday. The deadline for Lab 1 submission is Week 3 Friday at 6 pm.

If you have any questions about this lab, feel free to discuss with your tutors during the tutorial sessions this week or next, or ask on the forum.

Regards,
Yang

Project Groups, Final Exam

Posted by Yang Song Thursday 19 February 2026, 10:44:08 AM.

Hi Everyone,

To further clarify, regarding the project groups , please form your project group by the Friday of Week 5. All groups need to be registered on WebCMS3 by using the 'Groups' function (the "Groups" section from the menu). Each group should have 5 students. Group members can be from different tutorial groups. We also allow groups consisting of both undergraduates and postgraduates; that's all up to you.

After Week 5 Friday, if you haven't found a group, we will assign you to a group. If your group contains less than 5 students, we might assign additional members to fill it up. We expect to finalise the project groups by the end of Week 5. Please start forming your groups now as we want this to be the best experience for you. There will not be an opportunity to change groups after the deadline.

Regarding the final exam , we will have an in-person exam on campus during the exam period. The exam contains 50 multiple choice questions and for each question there is a single correct answer. There are no penalty marks for wrong answers. There is a hurdle of 40%, meaning a mark of at least 40% on the final exam (20 correct answers) is required to pass the course.

Regards,
Yang

​Tutorial Times

Posted by Haonan Zhong Wednesday 18 February 2026, 01:13:08 PM, last modified Wednesday 18 February 2026, 01:21:33 PM.

Hi Everyone,

We have now allocated students to their tutorial groups and times, along with the corresponding tutor pairs. You can view the full assignment list under Tutorials >> Tutorial Times and Assignment .

Online tutorials will be started next week and held via Blackboard Collaborate. Access links are available in Moodle >> COMP9517-Computer Vision - 2026 T1 >> Online Tutorials . Please make sure you join the session link that matches your assigned Group Number + Tutorial Time + Tutor Pair.

This term, tutorial links are open to all students, so you may attend a different session if necessary. However, to ensure a balanced workload across sessions, we strongly encourage you to attend your allocated tutorial whenever possible. The allocations are based on the time slot you selected through myUNSW, so please double-check that your assigned day and start time are correct.

If you have any questions or there are any issues, please get in touch via class email cs9517@cse.unsw.edu.au

Regards,

Haonan

Lab preparation

Posted by Yang Song Monday 16 February 2026, 05:00:49 PM.

Hi everyone,

Tutorials will start next week. For this week, please refer to the lab preparation materials (under "Assessments => Lab Preparations") for the set up and an example Jupyter Notebook. These will be useful for your labs and project.

Lecture live streaming

Posted by Yang Song Monday 16 February 2026, 04:26:59 PM.

Hi everyone,

My sincere apologies that the live streaming did not work today. I have checked with the School Office, and the lecture settings have now been reconfigured. I hope everything will run smoothly on Friday!

Best regards,
Yang

Welcome to COMP9517 2026 T1

Posted by Yang Song Thursday 12 February 2026, 04:45:17 PM.

Dear Students,

Welcome to COMP9517 starting next week. 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 lectures will be delivered both in-person on campus and online via the Live Streaming option in Echo360 . All lectures will also be recorded. The links to lectures in Echo360 (both live streaming and recordings) can be accessed via Moodle (under "Lecture Recordings").

Tutorials will start in Week 2 and will be online via Blackboard Collaborate , which will be accessible via Moodle. You will be allocated to a tutor group later in Week 1 based on your enrolment information, and then you will have access to Blackboard Collaborate links in Moodle. There are no tutorial sessions in Week 1 but we will release some pre-lab preparation material in Week 1.

We will upload lecture slides here (under Course Work => Lectures) every Monday morning for that week. Please note that Friday Week 7 and Monday Week 8 are public holidays, so we won't be able to do lectures in-person or online on those days. We will upload lecture recordings directly to Echo360 for those two days, and for questions, please ask the lecturer during other sessions or on the forum.

We will post more instructions here regarding the assignments, project groups, final exam, etc.

For discussion forum, we will use Discourse (see the "Course Forum" link in the menu on WebCMS3). The forum is monitored daily and we do our best to answer within 24 hours. For more individual questions, please email the class account: cs9517@cse.unsw.edu.au .

In the past few years we have had large student numbers every 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.

On behalf of the entire COMP9517 26T1 Team, which includes co-lecturer Dr Sonit Singh, course admin Haonan Zhong, and our 26 Tutors, I wish you a great time learning Computer Vision!

Yang Song
Lecturer in Charge