This paper introduces the real image Super-Resolution (SR) challenge that was part of the Advances in Image Manipulation (AIM) workshop, held in conjunction with ECCV 2020. This challenge involves three tracks to super-resolve an input image for ×2, ×3 and ×4 scaling factors, respectively. The goal is to attract more attention to realistic image degradation for the SR task, which is much more complicated and challenging, and contributes to real-world image super-resolution applications. 452 participants were registered for three tracks in total, and 24 teams submitted their results. They gauge the state-of-the-art approaches for real image SR in terms of PSNR and SSIM.
@article{arxiv.2009.12072,
title = {AIM 2020 Challenge on Real Image Super-Resolution: Methods and Results},
author = {Pengxu Wei and Hannan Lu and Radu Timofte and Liang Lin and Wangmeng Zuo and Zhihong Pan and Baopu Li and Teng Xi and Yanwen Fan and Gang Zhang and Jingtuo Liu and Junyu Han and Errui Ding and Tangxin Xie and Liang Cao and Yan Zou and Yi Shen and Jialiang Zhang and Yu Jia and Kaihua Cheng and Chenhuan Wu and Yue Lin and Cen Liu and Yunbo Peng and Xueyi Zou and Zhipeng Luo and Yuehan Yao and Zhenyu Xu and Syed Waqas Zamir and Aditya Arora and Salman Khan and Munawar Hayat and Fahad Shahbaz Khan and Keon-Hee Ahn and Jun-Hyuk Kim and Jun-Ho Choi and Jong-Seok Lee and Tongtong Zhao and Shanshan Zhao and Yoseob Han and Byung-Hoon Kim and JaeHyun Baek and Haoning Wu and Dejia Xu and Bo Zhou and Wei Guan and Xiaobo Li and Chen Ye and Hao Li and Haoyu Zhong and Yukai Shi and Zhijing Yang and Xiaojun Yang and Haoyu Zhong and Xin Li and Xin Jin and Yaojun Wu and Yingxue Pang and Sen Liu and Zhi-Song Liu and Li-Wen Wang and Chu-Tak Li and Marie-Paule Cani and Wan-Chi Siu and Yuanbo Zhou and Rao Muhammad Umer and Christian Micheloni and Xiaofeng Cong and Rajat Gupta and Keon-Hee Ahn and Jun-Hyuk Kim and Jun-Ho Choi and Jong-Seok Lee and Feras Almasri and Thomas Vandamme and Olivier Debeir},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.12072},
year = {2020}
}