High-Level Computer Vision

Dear all,

Please note the following instructions for the written exam tomorrow:

• The exam will be conducted in Building E2.2 Room 0.01 (Günter-Hotz-Hörsaal) from 10:00-12:00. Please arrive at the examination hall by 9:45 at the latest.
• The exam is closed book. No written materials or cheat sheets may be accessed or referred to during the exam.
• Calculators and other electronic devices are not permitted during the exam.

• Each registered student has been assigned a seat. Please check your assigned seat in the CMS student page, at: https://cms.sic.saarland/hlcvss23/students/view#note13. If you have registered but have not been assigned a seat, please let us know as soon as possible.

• Please bring your student ID card.

We wish you all the best for the exam.

Thanks and regards,

Your HLCV Team

Dear all,

This is a reminder that the registration deadline for the written exam on August 16 and the oral re-exam on August 17 is August 9, 2023. Please ensure you have registered both in LSF and CMS by then if you wish to take the exam. Students who have not registered will not be allowed to appear for the exam. If you have registered and no longer wish to take the exam, please ensure you have de-registered by August 9, 2023. More details can be found at https://cms.sic.saarland/hlcvss23/3/Exam

Thanks and regards,

Sukrut Rao

Dear all,

The tentative time slots for the project presentations are available in the CMS, at https://cms.sic.saarland/hlcvss23/students/view#note11. The presentations will be held in E1.4 024. Please arrive at least 5 minutes before your assigned time slot.

There may be some changes in the time slots in the coming days, please check the student page periodically. Please check that the team number mentioned along with the time slot matches your team number in the CMS. Please also let us know immediately if you have any scheduling conflicts with the assigned slot or if you have not been assigned a slot, by writing to hlcv-ss23@lists.mpi-inf.mpg.de

Guidelines for the presentation can be found at https://cms.sic.saarland/hlcvss23/4/Project_Presentation. Please submit your presentation slides by August 1, 2023 23:59 CEST in the CMS.

Thanks and regards,

Sukrut Rao

Dear all,

The project presentations will be held on August 2, 2023 and August 7, 2023 in E1.4 024. Further details have been provided under the Final Presentation section at https://cms.sic.saarland/hlcvss23/2/Project

Please select your date preferences in the CMS by July 18, 2023.

Thanks and regards,

Sukrut Rao

Dear all,

1. Further information about the exam has been posted at https://cms.sic.saarland/hlcvss23/3/Exam. Please go through it carefully. In particular, in addition to the LSF, you also need to register in the CMS if you wish to appear for the exam. Instructions have also been provided for students who cannot register in LSF (e.g. Erasmus students) and students who wish to take a re-exam from HLCV 2022. Please make sure you register both in LSF and the CMS by August 9, 2023.
2. The final project presentations will be conducted in-person only, and all team members are expected to be present.

If you have any questions or concerns, please write to us at hlcv-ss23@lists.mpi-inf.mpg.de.

Thanks and regards,

Sukrut Rao

Dear all,

Please do not use the submit nodes of the university GPU cluster for computations. For any interactive task, please use interactive jobs as described at https://gitlab.cs.uni-saarland.de/hlcv/ss23/upstream/-/blob/main/gpu_instructions/GPU-instructions.md#using-interactive-jobs

Best regards,

Sukrut Rao

Hi,

As on some of the machines there were problems with loading the vocab file, we have published a new fix on upstream with a new vocab file and a few lines of code to fix it. You can either merge upstream to your fork again, or view the changes here and apply them manually (and also download the new vocab_fixed.pickle from upstream). You can also refer to this forum post. If you didn't have any problems with previous pickle file, you don't have to do anything.

We also added a slight clarification to documentation on `captioning/cnn.py`.

Since the error might have caused you extra time, we extend the deadline for Assignment 4 by 1 day (until Friday, June 23, 23:59 CEST). Please keep the project timeline in mind as well.

Feel free to get in touch in case of further questions/errors! Your questions also help us improve the assignment for next iterations!

Best,

Your HLCV Team

Dear all,

We will have a written, in-person exam for this course on August 16, 2023. Please note the details:

Date and time: 16.08.2023, 10:00-12:00

Venue: Building E2.2 Room 0.01 (Günter-Hotz-Hörsaal)

If you wish to attend the exam, please register in LSF by August 9, 2023. If you register and later decide not to give the exam, you need to de-register in LSF by August 9, 2023.

Thanks and regards,

Sukrut Rao

Hi everyone,

Assignment 4 is now released on GitLab. The deadline is Thursday, June 22, 23:59 CEST. Note that there are two notebooks for this assignment (named 4a and 4b). This is the final assignment before the project which will be announced in the coming weeks. Good Luck!

Best,

Your HLCV Team

Dear all,

You now have access to additional GPU resources to help you with the assignments and the project. Each team has an account, and you can find your username and password at https://cms.sic.saarland/hlcvss23/students/view#note7. Please change your password after logging in. Please note that the team number in the username may differ from your team number in CMS and GitLab.

Instructions for usage and a demo have been pushed to the upstream repository: https://gitlab.cs.uni-saarland.de/hlcv/ss23/upstream/-/tree/main/gpu_instructions

You are free to use your own resources or Colab if you prefer to.

If you face any issues or have any questions, please write to us at hlcv-ss23@lists.mpi-inf.mpg.de

Thanks and regards,

Sukrut Rao

Hi all,

Assignment 3 is now released on GitLab. Please refer to the new note in the README (either on upstream or your fork) for updated merge instructions. 

Due to the slightly delayed release this week, the deadline is Wednesday, June 7, 23:59 CEST, and as usual, the latest commit on the main branch of your fork will be considered.

The following Monday (May 29) is a holiday. So, in the meantime, you can submit your doubts and questions related to this assignment via the forum or email or during our office hours on Wednesdays.

Best,

Your HLCV Team

Hi,

You can find your scores for assignment 1 on the CMS. The individual feedback for questions is released on the Issues section on your private Gitlab fork. (e.g. https://gitlab.cs.uni-saarland.de/hlcv/ss23/team[TEAM NUMBER]/-/issues)

You can simply reply to the issue to further discuss the feedback. Please tag @all in your reply so that we get notified.

Best,

Your HLCV Team

Hi all,

You can now get the Assignment 2 from the upstream repository. Please refer to the README (either on upstream or your fork) for instructions on how to merge the new assignment on your private fork.

The deadline is Monday, 22 May, 23:59 CEST, and the latest commit on Main branch will be considered.

Similar to the previous assignment, feel free to submit your questions via the forum, email, or the upcoming tutorial sessions.

Good Luck!

Your HLCV Team

Dear all,

The repositories for submitting the assignments have now been created. You should be able to access them at https://gitlab.cs.uni-saarland.de/hlcv/ss23/teamN, where N is your team number in the CMS. Please note that your assignment solutions need to pushed to your own team repository, not to the upstream repository.

Some of the students did not submit their GitLab username or submitted an invalid username, and so would not yet have access to their repositories. Please check and submit a valid username so we can provide you access, by April 28. For example, if your account URL is https://gitlab.cs.uni-saarland.de/xyz, then your username is xyz.

You might not have received access also if you submitted your username but did not form a team of at least two students. In this case, please form teams of at least two as soon as possible in the CMS, latest by April 28. The forum can be used to find teammates, or alternatively, if you would like us to assign you to a team, please let us know by writing to hlcv-ss23@lists.mpi-inf.mpg.de.

Thanks and regards,

Sukrut Rao

Hi all,

There will be no tutorial session on April 24, 2023. The tutors will be available during the tutorial slot in E1.4 024, in case you need any help or have any questions.

Reminder: please form your teams and submit your GitLab usernames in the CMS by April 24, 2023.

Best regards,

Sukrut Rao

Hi all,

Assignment 1 is now available in the CMS Materials page. The submission deadline is on May 8, 2023 at 23:59 CEST.

Submissions are to be made via GitLab, and the last commit before the deadline will be evaluated. We will provide access to your GitLab repositories once all the teams have been formed.

If you have any questions or face any issues, please write to us at hlcv-ss23@lists.mpi-inf.mpg.de.

Best regards,

Sukrut Rao

1. Course Organization
2. Discussion of Assignment 1 (which will be released on April 17)
3. Help with setting up Python

Hi all,

We will be using GitLab for the assignments this year. Each team will be provided a repository at https://gitlab.cs.uni-saarland.de where we will push the code for the assignment problems, and the teams would complete the assignment by submitting their code to the repository. Further details will be provided in the first tutorial.

In order to create these repositories, please check that you have an account on https://gitlab.cs.uni-saarland.de, or create an account at https://sam.sic.saarland/users/student_signup/. In most cases you should already have an account with the same username as your university email username (you might have to reset your password).

Once this is done, please provide your account username in the CMS at https://cms.sic.saarland/hlcvss23/students/view#note5 by April 24, 2023.

Thanks and Regards,
Sukrut Rao

Hi all,

The course this year will be conducted in-person and the lectures and tutorials will not be recorded. However, as an additional reference, after each lecture we will provide the recording of the closest related lecture (if one exists) from HLCV 2022. These will be made available in the Materials section in the CMS: https://cms.sic.saarland/hlcvss23/materials/

Please note however that the contents of the lectures this year may substantially differ from those of last year. We would also likely have lectures covering completely new topics that were not covered last year, for which no related recording exists.

So the recordings will not cover all topics and should only be used as an additional reference, and we recommend that you attend all the lectures.

Thanks and Regards,

Sukrut Rao

Hi all,

The assignments and project for this course are to be completed in teams of two or three (preferably three) students. For this, please create or join a team in the CMS at https://cms.sic.saarland/hlcvss23/students/view#teams

The Forum can be used to find teammates: https://cms.sic.saarland/hlcvss23/forum/viewforum.php?f=6

Please form a team by April 24, 2023.

If you have any questions or face any issues, please write to us at hlcv-ss23@lists.mpi-inf.mpg.de

Best regards,

Sukrut Rao

Hi all,

Welcome to High-Level Computer Vision! The first lecture will be today at 10:15 am, in building E1 4 (MPI Informatics building), room 024.

Access to the building is restricted, so please arrive between 10:00-10:15, and you will be let in by the person at the reception in groups.

Thanks and regards,

Sukrut Rao