Publications (12)
Low Light Image Enhancement Challenge at NTIRE 2026
George Ciubotariu, Sharif S M A, Abdur Rehman +90
This paper presents a comprehensive review of the NTIRE 2026 Low Light Image Enhancement Challenge, highlighting the proposed solutions and final results. The objective of this cha…
Augmenting Knowledge Graph Hierarchies Using Neural Transformers
Sanat Sharma, Mayank Poddar, Jayant Kumar +2
Knowledge graphs are useful tools to organize, recommend and sort data. Hierarchies in knowledge graphs provide significant benefit in improving understanding and compartmentalizat…
Smart Multi-Modal Search: Contextual Sparse and Dense Embedding Integration in Adobe Express
Cherag Aroraa, Tracy Holloway King, Jayant Kumar +6
As user content and queries become increasingly multi-modal, the need for effective multi-modal search systems has grown. Traditional search systems often rely on textual and metad…
The Fourth Challenge on Image Super-Resolution (4) at NTIRE 2026: Benchmark Results and Method Overview
Zheng Chen, Kai Liu, Jingkai Wang +150
This paper presents the NTIRE 2026 image super-resolution (4) challenge, one of the associated competitions of the NTIRE 2026 Workshop at CVPR 2026. The challenge aims to r…
Resilience of the Electric Grid through Trustable IoT-Coordinated Assets (Extended version)
Vineet J. Nair, Venkatesh Venkataramanan, Priyank Srivastava +10
The electricity grid has evolved from a physical system to a cyber-physical system with digital devices that perform measurement, control, communication, computation, and actuation…
Study of pnictides for photovoltaic applications
Jayant Kumar, Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam
For the transition into a sustainable mode of energy usage, it is important to develop photovoltaic materials that exhibit better solar-to-electricity conversion efficiencies, a di…
Robust Deepfake Detection, NTIRE 2026 Challenge: Report
Benedikt Hopf, Radu Timofte, Chenfan Qu +54
Robustness is a long-overlooked problem in deepfake detection. However, detection performance is nearly worthless in the real world if it suffers under exposure to even slight imag…
Semantic In-Domain Product Identification for Search Queries
Sanat Sharma, Jayant Kumar, Twisha Naik +3
Accurate explicit and implicit product identification in search queries is critical for enhancing user experiences, especially at a company like Adobe which has over 50 products an…
Contextual Font Recommendations based on User Intent
Sanat Sharma, Jayant Kumar, Jing Zheng +1
Adobe Fonts has a rich library of over 20,000 unique fonts that Adobe users utilize for creating graphics, posters, composites etc. Due to the nature of the large library, knowing…
Scaling Multimodal Search and Recommendation with Small Language Models via Upside-Down Reinforcement Learning
Yu-Chen Lin, Sanat Sharma, Hari Manikandan +3
In this work, we investigate how small language models (SLMs) can be scaled to support multimodal search and recommendation use cases while remaining efficient enough for real-time…
NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Robust AI-Generated Image Detection in the Wild
Aleksandr Gushchin, Khaled Abud, Ekaterina Shumitskaya +51
This paper presents an overview of the NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Robust AI-Generated Image Detection in the Wild, held in conjunction with the NTIRE workshop at CVPR 2026. The goal o…
LayoutBERT: Masked Language Layout Model for Object Insertion
Kerem Turgutlu, Sanat Sharma, Jayant Kumar
Image compositing is one of the most fundamental steps in creative workflows. It involves taking objects/parts of several images to create a new image, called a composite. Currentl…