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20192026
most citedCLIP-Art: Contrastive Pre-training for Fine-Grained Art Classification

102 citations · 234 across the 46 of their papers we have counts for

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47 papers

cs.CV2026

Benchmarking RAW and RGB Restoration in Image Signal Processors

Zihao Lu, Radu Timofte, Marcos V. Conde

Modern cameras transform RAW sensor measurements into sRGB images through an image signal processor (ISP). We benchmark two placements for blind restoration around a fixed ISP: (A)…

cs.LG2026

TabH2O: A Unified Foundation Model for Tabular Prediction

Pascal Pfeiffer, Dmitry Gordeev, Mathias Müller +6

We present TabH2O, a foundation model for tabular data that performs classification and regression in a single forward pass via in-context learning. TabH2O builds on the TabICL arc…

eess.IV2025

NTIRE 2025 Challenge on RAW Image Restoration and Super-Resolution

Marcos V. Conde, Radu Timofte, Zihao Lu +36

This paper reviews the NTIRE 2025 RAW Image Restoration and Super-Resolution Challenge, highlighting the proposed solutions and results. New methods for RAW Restoration and Super-R…

eess.IV2025

RAW Image Reconstruction from RGB on Smartphones. NTIRE 2025 Challenge Report

Marcos V. Conde, Radu Timofte, Radu Berdan +30

Numerous low-level vision tasks operate in the RAW domain due to its linear properties, bit depth, and sensor designs. Despite this, RAW image datasets are scarce and more expensiv…

cs.CV2025

The Tenth NTIRE 2025 Efficient Super-Resolution Challenge Report

Bin Ren, Hang Guo, Lei Sun +143

This paper presents a comprehensive review of the NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Single-Image Efficient Super-Resolution (ESR). The challenge aimed to advance the development of deep mode…

cs.CV2025

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…

eess.IV2024

INRetouch: Context Aware Implicit Neural Representation for Photography Retouching

Omar Elezabi, Marcos V. Conde, Zongwei Wu +1

Professional photo editing remains challenging, requiring extensive knowledge of imaging pipelines and significant expertise. While recent deep learning approaches, particularly st…

eess.IV2024

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…

eess.IV2024★ 7 cited

AIM 2024 Challenge on Efficient Video Super-Resolution for AV1 Compressed Content

Marcos V Conde, Zhijun Lei, Wen Li +3

Video super-resolution (VSR) is a critical task for enhancing low-bitrate and low-resolution videos, particularly in streaming applications. While numerous solutions have been deve…

eess.IV2024★ 7 cited

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…

cs.CV2024

AIM 2024 Challenge on UHD Blind Photo Quality Assessment

Vlad Hosu, Marcos V. Conde, Lorenzo Agnolucci +3

We introduce the AIM 2024 UHD-IQA Challenge, a competition to advance the No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) task for modern, high-resolution photos. The challenge is b…

cs.CV2024

Streaming Neural Images

Marcos V. Conde, Andy Bigos, Radu Timofte

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) are a novel paradigm for signal representation that have attracted considerable interest for image compression. INRs offer unprecedented adva…

cs.CV2024

Extreme Compression of Adaptive Neural Images

Leo Hoshikawa, Marcos V. Conde, Takeshi Ohashi +1

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) and Neural Fields are a novel paradigm for signal representation, from images and audio to 3D scenes and videos. The fundamental idea is to r…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Real-Time 4K Super-Resolution of Compressed AVIF Images. AIS 2024 Challenge Survey

Marcos V. Conde, Zhijun Lei, Wen Li +72

This paper introduces a novel benchmark as part of the AIS 2024 Real-Time Image Super-Resolution (RTSR) Challenge, which aims to upscale compressed images from 540p to 4K resolutio…

cs.CV2024

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…

cs.CV2024

AIS 2024 Challenge on Video Quality Assessment of User-Generated Content: Methods and Results

Marcos V. Conde, Saman Zadtootaghaj, Nabajeet Barman +33

This paper reviews the AIS 2024 Video Quality Assessment (VQA) Challenge, focused on User-Generated Content (UGC). The aim of this challenge is to gather deep learning-based method…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

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…

cs.CV2024

Event-Based Eye Tracking. AIS 2024 Challenge Survey

Zuowen Wang, Chang Gao, Zongwei Wu +36

This survey reviews the AIS 2024 Event-Based Eye Tracking (EET) Challenge. The task of the challenge focuses on processing eye movement recorded with event cameras and predicting t…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Deep Portrait Quality Assessment. A NTIRE 2024 Challenge Survey

Nicolas Chahine, Marcos V. Conde, Daniela Carfora +4

This paper reviews the NTIRE 2024 Portrait Quality Assessment Challenge, highlighting the proposed solutions and results. This challenge aims to obtain an efficient deep neural net…

cs.CV2024

Simple Image Signal Processing using Global Context Guidance

Omar Elezabi, Marcos V. Conde, Radu Timofte

In modern smartphone cameras, the Image Signal Processor (ISP) is the core element that converts the RAW readings from the sensor into perceptually pleasant RGB images for the end…

cs.CV2024★ 4 cited

InstructIR: High-Quality Image Restoration Following Human Instructions

Marcos V. Conde, Gregor Geigle, Radu Timofte

Image restoration is a fundamental problem that involves recovering a high-quality clean image from its degraded observation. All-In-One image restoration models can effectively re…

eess.IV2023★ 1 cited

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…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

Efficient Baselines for Motion Prediction in Autonomous Driving

Carlos Gómez-Huélamo, Marcos V. Conde, Rafael Barea +2

Motion Prediction (MP) of multiple surroundings agents is a crucial task in arbitrarily complex environments, from simple robots to Autonomous Driving Stacks (ADS). Current techniq…

cs.CL2023

H2O Open Ecosystem for State-of-the-art Large Language Models

Arno Candel, Jon McKinney, Philipp Singer +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a revolution in AI. However, they also pose many significant risks, such as the presence of biased, private, copyrighted or harmful text. For…