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PlagiaCorpus: A Bilingual, Adversarial, and Cross-Lingual Dataset for Forensic Plagiarism Detection
Adel Ammar, Serry Sibaee, Wadii Boulila
PlagiaCorpus is a bilingual Arabic-English dataset for benchmarking plagiarism and text-reuse detection, including reuse produced by large language models (LLMs) and reuse across l…
NTIRE 2026 Low-light Enhancement: Twilight Cowboy Challenge
Aleksei Khalin, Egor Ershov, Artyom Panshin +46
This paper presents a review of the NTIRE 2026 Low-light Enhancement: Twilight Cowboy Challenge. The objective of the competition was to merge a set of misaligned smartphone images…
Learning the Arabic Dialect Continuum as a Continuous Space: A Regression Approach to Speaker Origin Prediction
Mohamed Aziz Khadraoui, Adel Ammar, Bilel Benjdira +3
We present a regression-based approach to Arabic dialect geolocation that models dialectal variation as a continuous geographic space rather than discrete categories. Speaker origi…
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…
NTIRE 2026 The Second Challenge on Day and Night Raindrop Removal for Dual-Focused Images: Methods and Results
Xin Li, Yeying Jin, Suhang Yao +95
This paper presents an overview of the NTIRE 2026 Second Challenge on Day and Night Raindrop Removal for Dual-Focused Images. Building upon the success of the first edition, this c…
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…
Trust-SSL: Additive-Residual Selective Invariance for Robust Aerial Self-Supervised Learning
Wadii Boulila, Adel Ammar, Bilel Benjdira +1
Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a standard approach for representation learning in aerial imagery. Existing methods enforce invariance between augmented views, which works well w…
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…
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…
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…
MURAD: A Large-Scale Multi-Domain Unified Reverse Arabic Dictionary Dataset
Serry Sibaee, Yasser Alhabashi, Nadia Sibai +4
Arabic is a linguistically and culturally rich language with a vast vocabulary that spans scientific, religious, and literary domains. Yet, large-scale lexical datasets linking Ara…
The Path Ahead for Agentic AI: Challenges and Opportunities
Nadia Sibai, Yara Ahmed, Serry Sibaee +3
The evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) from passive text generators to autonomous, goal-driven systems represents a fundamental shift in artificial intelligence. This chapte…
ARCADE: A City-Scale Corpus for Fine-Grained Arabic Dialect Tagging
Omer Nacar, Serry Sibaee, Adel Ammar +12
The Arabic language is characterized by a rich tapestry of regional dialects that differ substantially in phonetics and lexicon, reflecting the geographic and cultural diversity of…
Enhancing Early Alzheimer Disease Detection through Big Data and Ensemble Few-Shot Learning
Safa Ben Atitallah, Maha Driss, Wadii Boulila +1
Alzheimer disease is a severe brain disorder that causes harm in various brain areas and leads to memory damage. The limited availability of labeled medical data poses a significan…
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…
SHAMI-MT: A Syrian Arabic Dialect to Modern Standard Arabic Bidirectional Machine Translation System
Serry Sibaee, Omer Nacar, Yasser Al-Habashi +2
The rich linguistic landscape of the Arab world is characterized by a significant gap between Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), the language of formal communication, and the diverse re…
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…
QARI-OCR: High-Fidelity Arabic Text Recognition through Multimodal Large Language Model Adaptation
Ahmed Wasfy, Omer Nacar, Abdelakreem Elkhateb +4
The inherent complexities of Arabic script; its cursive nature, diacritical marks (tashkeel), and varied typography, pose persistent challenges for Optical Character Recognition (O…
From Guidelines to Practice: A New Paradigm for Arabic Language Model Evaluation
Serry Sibaee, Omer Nacar, Adel Ammar +3
This paper addresses critical gaps in Arabic language model evaluation by establishing comprehensive theoretical guidelines and introducing a novel evaluation framework. We first a…
SARD: A Large-Scale Synthetic Arabic OCR Dataset for Book-Style Text Recognition
Omer Nacar, Yasser Al-Habashi, Serry Sibaee +2
Arabic Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is essential for converting vast amounts of Arabic print media into digital formats. However, training modern OCR models, especially powe…
GATE: General Arabic Text Embedding for Enhanced Semantic Textual Similarity with Matryoshka Representation Learning and Hybrid Loss Training
Omer Nacar, Anis Koubaa, Serry Sibaee +3
Semantic textual similarity (STS) is a critical task in natural language processing (NLP), enabling applications in retrieval, clustering, and understanding semantic relationships…
Optimizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Analysis of Hyperparameter Impact on Performance and Efficiency
Adel Ammar, Anis Koubaa, Omer Nacar +1
Large language models achieve high task performance yet often hallucinate or rely on outdated knowledge. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) addresses these gaps by coupling gener…
Advancing Arabic Reverse Dictionary Systems: A Transformer-Based Approach with Dataset Construction Guidelines
Serry Sibaee, Samar Ahmed, Abdullah Al Harbi +4
This study addresses the critical gap in Arabic natural language processing by developing an effective Arabic Reverse Dictionary (RD) system that enables users to find words based…
The Tenth NTIRE 2025 Image Denoising Challenge Report
Lei Sun, Hang Guo, Bin Ren +91
This paper presents an overview of the NTIRE 2025 Image Denoising Challenge (σ = 50), highlighting the proposed methodologies and corresponding results. The primary objective is to…