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COM SCI 163

Deep Learning for Computer Vision

4 units

Sections & times

Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.

Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 2 discussions. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was 79 minutes ago.

Grades

3.36

Average grade awarded in COM SCI 163. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

49%

of the 255 letter grades

D, F or W

1.2%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

-

the registrar has this letter grade only this term

The registrar's own records: 255 grades over 2 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.

What is inside that record

No summer session is in that record.

The table below splits them, and term averages across those 2 terms ran 3.31 to 3.41.

Historical grades for ZHOU, BOLEI, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

  • A+ 20 · 7.8%
  • A 46 · 18.0%
  • A- 59 · 23.1%
  • B+ 50 · 19.6%
  • B 37 · 14.5%
  • B- 24 · 9.4%
  • C+ 8 · 3.1%
  • C 5 · 2.0%
  • C- 3 · 1.2%
  • D+ 1 · 0.4%
  • F 2 · 0.8%

Percentages are of the 255 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.

How the non-letter outcomes are counted

They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Fall 2026
ZHOU, BOLEI reviews ↗ 3.36 3.36 255 2 49% average Open, 11 seats left
Why Predicted is not the Raw average

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

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Reviews for COM SCI 163

Workload and assignments

Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.

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What comes first

The chain dibs can see is 7 courses long before COM SCI 163. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for COM SCI 145, COM SCI 162, EC ENGR 10, EC ENGR 149, EC ENGR C147, MATH 170A, and MATH 3B, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.

Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.

From the registrar's catalog

Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Requisite: one course from course C124, 145, M146, M148, 161, 162, Electrical and Computer Engineering C147, or 149. Computer vision has been a core field of artificial intelligence, facilitating a wide range of applications from image search to self-driving. The progress of deep learning has greatly advanced the performance of visual tasks like visual recognition and image generation. Study of deep learning approaches for computer vision. Students learn to implement and tune the deep neural networks used in various computer vision, such as visual recognition and image generation. Covers learning algorithms, neural architecture design, and practical skills of training and debugging neural networks. Letter grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.

Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 3 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 117 and 138 a term over 2 terms, summer excluded, most recently 117 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

From the people who took it

Student reviews

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Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.

A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.

What a flat run means, and where a line starts

Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.

Lec 1 · Zhou, B. · 109 of 120 enrolled

Freed 11 seats over about 1 month

109 of 120 · 11 left in its discussions
18 Aug 20:4010 Sep 00:262 Oct 04:12
dibs read 168 of the 499 hours its hourly record covers, 34%, and did not look in 331. dibs had no hourly record before 11 Sep, which is the other 566 of 1065 plotted.109 of 120 enrolled at the newest reading, 79 minutes ago, with 11 left in its discussions. Seats from 18 Aug 20:40 to 2 Oct 04:12, 120 to 109. dibs read 168 of the 499 hours its hourly record here covers, 34%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 331 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 11 September at 10:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 566 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
How readings and alerts work

A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.

Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.

The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.