19 papers
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…
Seeing What Is Actually There: PriVE-Bench and PriVE-Tools for Counterfactual Evaluation of Agentic Visual Evidence in VLMs
Jingyu Sun, Jiachen Tu, Yuyang Xue +8
Vision-language models (VLMs) often answer visual questions using learned language and category priors rather than grounding their predictions in the image itself. Counterfactual i…
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…
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 Rip Current Detection and Segmentation (RipDetSeg) Challenge Report
Andrei Dumitriu, Aakash Ralhan, Florin Miron +32
This report presents the NTIRE 2026 Rip Current Detection and Segmentation (RipDetSeg) Challenge, which targets automatic rip current understanding in images. Rip currents are haza…