14 papers
Tool-IQA: Augmenting Image Quality Assessment with Simple Tools
Guanyi Qin, Junjie Zhang, Chunming He +4
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have been increasingly adopted for Image Quality Assessment (IQA). However, current methods typically employ a static one-shot scoring paradigm, despi…
NTIRE 2026 The 3rd Restore Any Image Model (RAIM) Challenge: Professional Image Quality Assessment (Track 1)
Guanyi Qin, Jie Liang, Bingbing Zhang +50
In this paper, we present an overview of the NTIRE 2026 challenge on the 3rd Restore Any Image Model in the Wild, specifically focusing on Track 1: Professional Image Quality Asses…
NTIRE 2026 The 3rd Restore Any Image Model (RAIM) Challenge: AI Flash Portrait (Track 3)
Ya-nan Guan, Shaonan Zhang, Hang Guo +55
In this paper, we present a comprehensive overview of the NTIRE 2026 3rd Restore Any Image Model (RAIM) challenge, with a specific focus on Track 3: AI Flash Portrait. Despite sign…
NTIRE 2026 The 3rd Restore Any Image Model (RAIM) Challenge: Multi-Exposure Image Fusion in Dynamic Scenes (Track 2)
Lishen Qu, Yao Liu, Jie Liang +32
This paper presents NTIRE 2026, the 3rd Restore Any Image Model (RAIM) challenge on multi-exposure image fusion in dynamic scenes. We introduce a benchmark that targets a practical…
UniSurgSAM: A Unified Promptable Model for Reliable Surgical Video Segmentation
Haofeng Liu, Ziyue Wang, Alex Y. W. Kong +6
Surgical video segmentation is fundamental to computer-assisted surgery. In practice, surgeons need to dynamically specify targets throughout extended procedures, using heterogeneo…
Beyond Ground-Truth: Leveraging Image Quality Priors for Real-World Image Restoration
Fengyang Xiao, Peng Hu, Lei Xu +7
Real-world image restoration aims to restore high-quality (HQ) images from degraded low-quality (LQ) inputs captured under uncontrolled conditions. Existing methods typically depen…