18 papers
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…
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 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-…
Q-Tacit: Image Quality Assessment via Latent Visual Reasoning
Yuxuan Jiang, Yixuan Li, Hanwei Zhu +3
Vision-Language Model (VLM)-based image quality assessment (IQA) has been significantly advanced by incorporating Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. Recent work has refined image qu…
Instance Data Condensation for Image Super-Resolution
Tianhao Peng, Ho Man Kwan, Yuxuan Jiang +5
Deep learning based Image Super-Resolution (ISR) relies on large training datasets to optimize model generalization; this requires substantial computational and storage resources d…