COMP9517 Notices

Lab3 Mark Release

Posted by Haonan Zhong Monday 26 October 2026, 11:08:06 AM.

Hi everyone,

The marks for Lab3 have been released. You can access your marks in GIVE to view your marks. Alternatively, you can use the following command to collect your marks:

9517 classrun -sturec

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

Regards,

Haonan

Tutorial Sessions Weeks 6-10

Posted by Erik Meijering Monday 19 October 2026, 04:46:10 PM.

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, remember that we allow you to attend any tutorial session you want. So even if your group members were previously in different sessions, you can now all attend the same session if you like.

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 get 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 everyone 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

Lab 2 Mark Release

Posted by Haonan Zhong Sunday 18 October 2026, 11:27:06 PM.

Hi everyone,

The marks for Lab2 have been released. You can access your marks in GIVE to view your marks. Alternatively, you can use the following command to collect your marks:

9517 classrun -sturec

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

Regards,

Haonan

Project Group Assignments Release

Posted by Haonan Zhong Sunday 18 October 2026, 01:06:19 PM.

Hi everyone,

We have now finalised the groups you will be working in for your 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 PDF file from now on, as this is how you will be marked.

Students who joined a group on WebCMS by last Saturday’s deadline have been placed in that group. Students who did not join a group have been assigned to one. Additionally, to meet the required group size of four or five students, we randomly reassigned some members from groups with more than five students to groups with fewer than four.

As stated in the previous announcements, group changes will only be considered in exceptional circumstances. Forgetting to join a group on WebCMS by the deadline is not grounds for a change. If you have any questions or there are any issues, please get in touch ASAP via class email: cs9517@cse.unsw.edu.au . Hope you enjoy the project!

Regards,

Haonan

Deadline to Form Your Project Group

Posted by Haonan Zhong Friday 16 October 2026, 08:42:13 PM, last modified Sunday 18 October 2026, 12:57:39 AM.

Hi everyone,

This is a final reminder to form your project groups using the Groups function in WebCMS3 by this Saturday (17 Oct 11:59pm). We will finalise the groups after the deadline, and no further changes will be permitted.

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

Regards,

Haonan

Group Project Specification Released

Posted by Erik Meijering Friday 16 October 2026, 08:34:19 PM.

Hi Students,

The group project specification and marking criteria are now available under WebCMS3 > COMP9517 > Course Work > Assessments > Group Project.

The Course Admin will finalize 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 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 get suggestions when you're feeling stuck. The tutors are there to help you.

Cheers,
Erik

Lab 4 Specification Released

Posted by Erik Meijering Monday 12 October 2026, 01:29:07 PM.

Hi Students,

The Lab 4 specification is now available under WebCMS3 > COMP9517 > Course Work > Assessments > Lab 4.

The topic is image segmentation and morphological processing, which will be covered in this week's lectures.

The deadline for Lab 4 submission is Week 7, Monday 26 October 2026, 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

Lab 1 Mark Release

Posted by Haonan Zhong Monday 12 October 2026, 04:12:45 AM.

Hi everyone,

The marks for Lab1 have been released. You can access your marks by GIVE. In the GIVE system, please navigate to Marks tab (instead of the Assignments tab) to view your marks.

Alternatively, you can login to Vlab (via TigerVNC for the GUI interface) with your zid and password, and then type the following command in the terminal to collect your marks:

9517 classrun -sturec

Please note that marks may not be available through WebCMS's 'Collect Submission' anymore, so please use GIVE or the above command.

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

Regards,

Haonan

Lab 3 Specification Released

Posted by Erik Meijering Tuesday 06 October 2026, 07:46:11 PM.

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 Dong Gong.

The deadline for Lab 3 submission is Week 5, Friday 16 October 2026, 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

Lab 2 Specification Released

Posted by Erik Meijering Tuesday 29 September 2026, 03:04:11 PM.

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 Dong Gong.

The deadline for Lab 2 submission is Week 4, Friday 9 October 2026, 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

Week 3 Lecture Slides Available & Weeks 3, 4, 7 and 8 lectures

Posted by Dong Gong Monday 28 September 2026, 11:06:01 PM.

Dear all,

I will be giving the lectures in Weeks 3, 4, 7 and 8, on Feature Representation, Pattern Recognition, and Deep Learning I and II.

The Week 3 slides are now uploaded, WebCMS3 > COMP9517 > Course Work > Lectures > Week 3.
Slides for the other weeks will go up ahead of each lecture.

See you this Wednesday.

Best,
Dong

Lab 1 Specification Released

Posted by Erik Meijering Tuesday 22 September 2026, 04:08:43 PM.

Hi Students,

The Lab 1 specification is now available under WebCMS3 > COMP9517 > Course Work > Assessments > Lab 1.

Please note that the lab topics will be 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 earlier in the week to give you more time to have a look and prepare.

The deadline for Lab 1 submission is Week 3, Friday 2 October 2026, 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

Clarification: Tutor Groups and Project Groups

Posted by Erik Meijering Monday 21 September 2026, 08:38:58 AM.

Hi Students,

Some of you have been asking whether they can form a project group even if group members are in different tutor groups. Yes, this is possible. Let me clarify things a little bit more here. Please read carefully.

There are two tutorial time slots (see Timetable on WebCMS3) and you are now enrolled in one of them. Furthermore, within the given tutorial time slot you have been assigned to a particular tutor group. Each tutor group is led by two tutors.

The goal of the tutorials (or rather tutor consultation sessions) is to help you with any questions regarding the labs in Weeks 2-5 and the group project in Weeks 6-10.

For the group project, 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 your group and all its members here on WebCMS3. 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 that has less than 5 students.

If you have any further questions about this, please post them on the forum.

Cheers,
Erik

Tutorial Times and Assignments

Posted by Haonan Zhong Monday 21 September 2026, 08:05:26 AM.

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 Assignments.

Online tutorials will start this week and will be held via Blackboard Collaborate. Access links are available in Moodle >> COMP9517-Computer Vision - 2026 T3 >> 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 Preparations

Posted by Erik Meijering Thursday 17 September 2026, 07:45:44 AM.

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 admin will soon inform you which tutor group you're in 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 Course Forum (see link in the WebCMS3 menu).

Erik

COMP9517 Course Forum

Posted by Erik Meijering Monday 14 September 2026, 11:40:50 AM.

Dear Students,

Throughout the term there will be various ways to ask questions and get answers:

1. During lectures (in person). You are welcome to raise your hand at any time if you want to ask a question during the lectures. Also halfway into each lecture, when we have a small break, and at the end of each lecture, you are welcome to come to the front and discuss with the lecturer (of course there will be limited time for this).

2. During tutorial sessions (online). Every week (except the first week) there will be a one-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 on the course forum (online). You will find the link to the forum in the menu on WebCMS3. Please sign up and enroll as soon as possible. The team will attempt to answer questions within 24 hours.

Welcome to COMP9517 26T3

Posted by Erik Meijering Monday 14 September 2026, 11:25:56 AM.

Dear Students,

Welcome to COMP9517 2026 Term 3 starting this 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 Friday 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 may be more students in the course than the capacity of the lecture room (Sir John Clancy Auditorium). Of course, the lectures will be recorded, so you can also just watch them afterwards (lecture attendance is not mandatory).

All tutorials (consultation sessions) will be held online. Note that for privacy reasons the tutorials will not be recorded, so do attend these sessions at the indicated times if you want to make use of them (they are not mandatory though).

On behalf of the entire COMP9517 26T3 Team, which includes Co-Lecturer Dr Dong Gong and our Course Admin Haonan Zhong and all our 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 Course Forum to ask your questions (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