COMP90086 Computer Vision (University of Melbourne): rated 3.5/5 overall across 4 reviews collected on UniMelb Wall.
COMP90086 is a University of Melbourne course taught by the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology in Computer Science. This page brings together its handbook details and what UniMelb students say about it.
Review data updated 2026-10-24.
Chinese title: 计算机视觉
Type: Graduate coursework subject
Subject area: Computer Science
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
Level: Graduate coursework Level 9
Handbook year: 2026
AIMS From self-driving cars to automatic processing of medical scans, vision is a key sensory modality for a variety of artificial intelligence tasks. However, extracting meaning from images poses various computational challenges.
COMP90086 has 4 scored reviews: overall 3.5/5 · usefulness 4.0 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 1 StudentVIP review (average 4.0 stars); 3 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 3.4/5).
On Reddit: "Both are very interesting and are difficult subjects. I would recommend take both if you could. Take CV if there is only one option since it is much more practical than AI."
On Reddit: "I did the Master of Information Technology (Computing). Computer Vision demands feature engineering, which I don't find very natural (I prefer mathematics). So I think it's harder than NLP. Both of these are harder than Algorithms and Complexity. (And Parallel and Multicore Comp…"
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Q: Is COMP90086 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 4 reviews: usefulness 4.0/5, overall 3.5/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches COMP90086, and when is it offered?
A: COMP90086 is taught by the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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