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The First Controllable Bokeh Rendering Challenge at NTIRE 2026
Tim Seizinger, Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu, Jeffrey Chen +23
This study presents the outcomes of the first Controllable Bokeh Rendering Challenge at NTIRE and highlights the most effective submitted methodologies. In total, 44 participants r…
NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Single Image Reflection Removal in the Wild: Datasets, Results, and Methods
Jie Cai, Kangning Yang, Zhiyuan Li +50
In this paper, we review the NTIRE 2026 challenge on single-image reflection removal (SIRR) in the wild. SIRR is a fundamental task in image restoration. Despite progress in academ…
NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Low Light Image Enhancement: Methods and Results
Xiaoning Liu, Zongwei Wu, Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu +102
This paper presents a comprehensive review of the NTIRE 2025 Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) Challenge, highlighting the proposed solutions and final outcomes. The objective of…
AIM 2025 Challenge on High FPS Motion Deblurring: Methods and Results
George Ciubotariu, Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu, Zhuyun Zhou +44
This paper presents a comprehensive review of the AIM 2025 High FPS Non-Uniform Motion Deblurring Challenge, highlighting the proposed solutions and final results. The objective of…
After the Party: Navigating the Mapping From Color to Ambient Lighting
Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu, Tim Seizinger, Zongwei Wu +1
Illumination in practical scenarios is inherently complex, involving colored light sources, occlusions, and diverse material interactions that produce intricate reflectance and sha…
AIM 2025 Rip Current Segmentation (RipSeg) Challenge Report
Andrei Dumitriu, Florin Miron, Florin Tatui +24
This report presents an overview of the AIM 2025 RipSeg Challenge, a competition designed to advance techniques for automatic rip current segmentation in still images. Rip currents…
NTIRE 2025 Image Shadow Removal Challenge Report
Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu, Tim Seizinger, Zhuyun Zhou +79
This work examines the findings of the NTIRE 2025 Shadow Removal Challenge. A total of 306 participants have registered, with 17 teams successfully submitting their solutions durin…
Bokehlicious: Photorealistic Bokeh Rendering with Controllable Apertures
Tim Seizinger, Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu, Marcos V. Conde +2
Bokeh rendering methods play a key role in creating the visually appealing, softly blurred backgrounds seen in professional photography. While recent learning-based approaches show…
A Simple Combination of Diffusion Models for Better Quality Trade-Offs in Image Denoising
Jonas Dornbusch, Emanuel Pfarr, Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu +2
Diffusion models have garnered considerable interest in computer vision, owing both to their capacity to synthesize photorealistic images and to their proven effectiveness in image…
Toward Efficient Deep Blind RAW Image Restoration
Marcos V. Conde, Florin Vasluianu, Radu Timofte
Multiple low-vision tasks such as denoising, deblurring and super-resolution depart from RGB images and further reduce the degradations, improving the quality. However, modeling th…
Compressed Depth Map Super-Resolution and Restoration: AIM 2024 Challenge Results
Marcos V. Conde, Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu, Jinhui Xiong +3
The increasing demand for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) applications highlights the need for efficient depth information processing. Depth maps, essential for ren…
Deep RAW Image Super-Resolution. A NTIRE 2024 Challenge Survey
Marcos V. Conde, Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu, Radu Timofte +32
This paper reviews the NTIRE 2024 RAW Image Super-Resolution Challenge, highlighting the proposed solutions and results. New methods for RAW Super-Resolution could be essential in…
NTIRE 2024 Challenge on Low Light Image Enhancement: Methods and Results
Xiaoning Liu, Zongwei Wu, Ao Li +109
This paper reviews the NTIRE 2024 low light image enhancement challenge, highlighting the proposed solutions and results. The aim of this challenge is to discover an effective netw…
Towards Image Ambient Lighting Normalization
Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu, Tim Seizinger, Zongwei Wu +2
Lighting normalization is a crucial but underexplored restoration task with broad applications. However, existing works often simplify this task within the context of shadow remova…
BSRAW: Improving Blind RAW Image Super-Resolution
Marcos V. Conde, Florin Vasluianu, Radu Timofte
In smartphones and compact cameras, the Image Signal Processor (ISP) transforms the RAW sensor image into a human-readable sRGB image. Most popular super-resolution methods depart…
Single-Model and Any-Modality for Video Object Tracking
Zongwei Wu, Jilai Zheng, Xiangxuan Ren +5
In the realm of video object tracking, auxiliary modalities such as depth, thermal, or event data have emerged as valuable assets to complement the RGB trackers. In practice, most…
Perceptual Image Enhancement for Smartphone Real-Time Applications
Marcos V. Conde, Florin Vasluianu, Javier Vazquez-Corral +1
Recent advances in camera designs and imaging pipelines allow us to capture high-quality images using smartphones. However, due to the small size and lens limitations of the smartp…
Self-Supervised Shadow Removal
Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu, Andres Romero, Luc Van Gool +1
Shadow removal is an important computer vision task aiming at the detection and successful removal of the shadow produced by an occluded light source and a photo-realistic restorat…
NTIRE 2020 Challenge on NonHomogeneous Dehazing
Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti, Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu +49
This paper reviews the NTIRE 2020 Challenge on NonHomogeneous Dehazing of images (restoration of rich details in hazy image). We focus on the proposed solutions and their results e…