10 papers
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 Illusion of Forgetting: Attack Unlearned Diffusion via Initial Latent Variable Optimization
Manyi Li, Yufan Liu, Lai Jiang +3
Text-to-image diffusion models (DMs) are frequently abused to produce harmful or copyrighted content, violating public interests. Concept erasure (unlearning) is a promising paradi…
Certainty Is Redundant: Token Sparsification for Efficient Camouflaged Object Detection with Vision Foundation Models
Yuhan Gao, Shuhao Kang, Xin He +4
Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to segment objects that closely resemble their surrounding environments. Vision foundation models (VFMs) provide strong transferable represe…
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 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-…
Arbitrary Ratio Feature Compression via Next Token Prediction
Yufan Liu, Daoyuan Ren, Zhipeng Zhang +4
Feature compression is increasingly important for improving the efficiency of downstream tasks, especially in applications involving large-scale or multi-modal data. While existing…