This paper presents a review of the NTIRE 2024 challenge on night photography rendering. The goal of the challenge was to find solutions that process raw camera images taken in nighttime conditions, and thereby produce a photo-quality output images in the standard RGB (sRGB) space. Unlike the previous year's competition, the challenge images were collected with a mobile phone and the speed of algorithms was also measured alongside the quality of their output. To evaluate the results, a sufficient number of viewers were asked to assess the visual quality of the proposed solutions, considering the subjective nature of the task. There were 2 nominations: quality and efficiency. Top 5 solutions in terms of output quality were sorted by evaluation time (see Fig. 1). The top ranking participants' solutions effectively represent the state-of-the-art in nighttime photography rendering. More results can be found at https://nightimaging.org.
@article{arxiv.2406.13007,
title = {NTIRE 2024 Challenge on Night Photography Rendering},
author = {Egor Ershov and Artyom Panshin and Oleg Karasev and Sergey Korchagin and Shepelev Lev and Alexandr Startsev and Daniil Vladimirov and Ekaterina Zaychenkova and Nikola Banić and Dmitrii Iarchuk and Maria Efimova and Radu Timofte and Arseniy Terekhin and Shuwei Yue and Yuyang Liu and Minchen Wei and Lu Xu and Chao Zhang and Yasi Wang and Furkan Kınlı and Doğa Yılmaz and Barış Özcan and Furkan Kıraç and Shuai Liu and Jingyuan Xiao and Chaoyu Feng and Hao Wang and Guangqi Shao and Yuqian Zhang and Yibin Huang and Wei Luo and Liming Wang and Xiaotao Wang and Lei Lei and Simone Zini and Claudio Rota and Marco Buzzelli and Simone Bianco and Raimondo Schettini and Jin Guo and Tianli Liu and Mohao Wu and Ben Shao and Qirui Yang and Xianghui Li and Qihua Cheng and Fangpu Zhang and Zhiqiang Xu and Jingyu Yang and Huanjing Yue},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.13007},
year = {2024}
}