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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…
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…
The First Challenge on Remote Sensing Infrared Image Super-Resolution at NTIRE 2026: Benchmark Results and Method Overview
Kai Liu, Haoyang Yue, Zeli Lin +65
This paper presents the NTIRE 2026 Remote Sensing Infrared Image Super-Resolution (x4) Challenge, one of the associated challenges of NTIRE 2026. The challenge aims to recover high…
The First Challenge on Mobile Real-World Image Super-Resolution at NTIRE 2026: Benchmark Results and Method Overview
Jiatong Li, Zheng Chen, Kai Liu +91
This paper provides a review of the NTIRE 2026 challenge on mobile real-world image super-resolution, highlighting the proposed solutions and the resulting outcomes. The challenge…
NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Video Saliency Prediction: Methods and Results
Andrey Moskalenko, Alexey Bryncev, Ivan Kosmynin +40
This paper presents an overview of the NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Video Saliency Prediction. The goal of the challenge participants was to develop automatic saliency map prediction me…
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…
The Second Challenge on Real-World Face Restoration at NTIRE 2026: Methods and Results
Jingkai Wang, Jue Gong, Zheng Chen +50
This paper provides a review of the NTIRE 2026 challenge on real-world face restoration, highlighting the proposed solutions and the resulting outcomes. The challenge focuses on ge…
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 Challenge on Bitstream-Corrupted Video Restoration: Methods and Results
Wenbin Zou, Tianyi Liu, Kejun Wu +37
This paper reports on the NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Bitstream-Corrupted Video Restoration (BSCVR). The challenge aims to advance research on recovering visually coherent videos from…
The Second Challenge on Cross-Domain Few-Shot Object Detection at NTIRE 2026: Methods and Results
Xingyu Qiu, Yuqian Fu, Jiawei Geng +70
Cross-domain few-shot object detection (CD-FSOD) remains a challenging problem for existing object detectors and few-shot learning approaches, particularly when generalizing across…
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 Challenge on Short-form UGC Video Restoration in the Wild with Generative Models: Datasets, Methods and Results
Xin Li, Jiachao Gong, Xijun Wang +75
This paper presents an overview of the NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Short-form UGC Video Restoration in the Wild with Generative Models. This challenge utilizes a new short-form UGC (S-…
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…
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…
Medical SAM3: A Foundation Model for Universal Prompt-Driven Medical Image Segmentation
Chongcong Jiang, Tianxingjian Ding, Chuhan Song +7
Promptable segmentation foundation models such as SAM3 have demonstrated strong generalization capabilities through interactive and concept-based prompting. However, their direct a…
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…