COMP9517 Computer Vision (UNSW Sydney): rated 2.9/5 overall, difficulty 5.0/5 (higher is harder), would-recommend 0.0/5 across 31 reviews collected on UNSW Wall.
COMP9517 is a UNSW Sydney course taught by the Faculty of Engineering in School of Computer Science and Engineering. This page brings together its handbook details and what UNSW students say about it.
Review data updated 2026-10-24.
Chinese title: 计算机视觉
Type: Undergraduate course
Credit points: 6
Subject area: School of Computer Science and Engineering
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
Level: Postgraduate Level 9
Handbook year: 2026
Computer vision is the interdisciplinary scientific field that develops theories and methods allowing computers to extract high-level information from digital images or videos. From an engineering perspective it seeks to automate perceptual tasks normally performed by the human visual system.
COMP9517 has 31 scored reviews: overall 2.9/5 · usefulness 0.0 · difficulty 5.0 · would-recommend 0.0 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 1 review by UNSW students on UNSW Wall (0.0/5 overall); 30 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 3.0/5).
On Reddit: "I am a Masters of IT student currently in my T3, COMP9417 is very math heavy and not much programming based, the professor just reads off the math from the PPT and the course overall is about grinding calculus till you make it. COMP9444 the course conveyor fails to make the cour…"
On Reddit: "I did it a few years ago and it was similarly bad, such a terribly taught course then."
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Q: Is COMP9517 hard?
A: Students rate COMP9517's difficulty 5.0/5 on average (higher is harder), which makes it one of the harder courses.
Q: Is COMP9517 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 31 reviews: would-recommend 0.0/5, usefulness 0.0/5, overall 2.9/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches COMP9517, and when is it offered?
A: COMP9517 is taught by the Faculty of Engineering. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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