9 papers
A-MAR: Agent-based Multimodal Art Retrieval for Fine-Grained Artwork Understanding
Shuai Wang, Hongyi Zhu, Jia-Hong Huang +6
Understanding artworks requires multi-step reasoning over visual content and cultural, historical, and stylistic context. While recent multimodal large language models show promise…
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 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-…
SAM3-LiteText: An Anatomical Study of the SAM3 Text Encoder for Efficient Vision-Language Segmentation
Chengxi Zeng, Yuxuan Jiang, Ge Gao +6
Vision-language segmentation models such as SAM3 enable flexible, prompt-driven visual grounding, but inherit large, general-purpose text encoders originally designed for open-ende…
EfficientSAM3: Progressive Hierarchical Distillation for Video Concept Segmentation from SAM1, 2, and 3
Chengxi Zeng, Yuxuan Jiang, Aaron Zhang
The Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM3) advances visual understanding with Promptable Concept Segmentation (PCS) across images and videos, but its unified architecture (shared vision b…
Compressed Video Super-Resolution based on Hierarchical Encoding
Yuxuan Jiang, Siyue Teng, Qiang Zhu +6
This paper presents a general-purpose video super-resolution (VSR) method, dubbed VSR-HE, specifically designed to enhance the perceptual quality of compressed content. Targeting s…