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This paper presents an overview of NTIRE 2025 the First Challenge on Event-Based Image Deblurring, detailing the proposed methodologies and corresponding results. The primary goal of the challenge is to design an event-based method that…

Most existing face image Super-Resolution (SR) methods assume that the Low-Resolution (LR) images were artificially downsampled from High-Resolution (HR) images with bicubic interpolation. This operation changes the natural image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Andreas Aakerberg , Kamal Nasrollahi , Thomas B. Moeslund

What is the current state-of-the-art for image restoration and enhancement applied to degraded images acquired under less than ideal circumstances? Can the application of such algorithms as a pre-processing step to improve image…

This paper summarizes the 3rd NTIRE challenge on stereo image super-resolution (SR) with a focus on new solutions and results. The task of this challenge is to super-resolve a low-resolution stereo image pair to a high-resolution one with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Longguang Wang , Yulan Guo , Juncheng Li , Hongda Liu , Yang Zhao , Yingqian Wang , Zhi Jin , Shuhang Gu , Radu Timofte

Implicit neural representation (INR) has become the standard approach for arbitrary-scale image super-resolution (ASSR). To date, no empirical study has systematically examined the effectiveness of existing methods, nor investigated the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Tayyab Nasir , Daochang Liu , Ajmal Mian

Due to the significant information loss in low-resolution (LR) images, it has become extremely challenging to further advance the state-of-the-art of single image super-resolution (SISR). Reference-based super-resolution (RefSR), on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Zhifei Zhang , Zhaowen Wang , Zhe Lin , Hairong Qi

Super-Resolution (SR) is a fundamental computer vision task that aims to obtain a high-resolution clean image from the given low-resolution counterpart. This paper reviews the NTIRE 2021 Challenge on Video Super-Resolution. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Sanghyun Son , Suyoung Lee , Seungjun Nah , Radu Timofte , Kyoung Mu Lee

An average healthy person does not perceive the world in just black and white. Moreover, the perceived world is not composed of pixels and through vision humans perceive structures. However, the acquisition and display systems discretize…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-26 Dogancan Temel , Ghassan AlRegib

Structures matter in single image super-resolution (SISR). Benefiting from generative adversarial networks (GANs), recent studies have promoted the development of SISR by recovering photo-realistic images. However, there are still undesired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Cheng Ma , Yongming Rao , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Single-image super-resolution (SISR) is an important task in image processing, which aims to enhance the resolution of imaging systems. Recently, SISR has made a huge leap and has achieved promising results with the help of deep learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-15 Juncheng Li , Zehua Pei , Wenjie Li , Guangwei Gao , Longguang Wang , Yingqian Wang , Tieyong Zeng

In this paper, we present the PerceptIn Robotics Vision System (PIRVS) system, a visual-inertial computing hardware with embedded simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm. The PIRVS hardware is equipped with a multi-core…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Zhe Zhang , Shaoshan Liu , Grace Tsai , Hongbing Hu , Chen-Chi Chu , Feng Zheng

The field of automatic image inpainting has progressed rapidly in recent years, but no one has yet proposed a standard method of evaluating algorithms. This absence is due to the problem's challenging nature: image-inpainting algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Ivan Molodetskikh , Mikhail Erofeev , Dmitry Vatolin

The image Super-Resolution (SR) technique has greatly improved the visual quality of images by enhancing their resolutions. It also calls for an efficient SR Image Quality Assessment (SR-IQA) to evaluate those algorithms or their generated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Keke Zhang , Tiesong Zhao , Weiling Chen , Yuzhen Niu , Jinsong Hu

High perceptual quality and low distortion degree are two important goals in image restoration tasks such as super-resolution (SR). Most of the existing SR methods aim to achieve these goals by minimizing the corresponding yet conflicting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Lingchen Sun , Jie Liang , Shuaizheng Liu , Hongwei Yong , Lei Zhang

We introduce SPUR, a comprehensive benchmark for scientific experimental image perception, understanding, and reasoning, comprising 4,264 question-answering (QA) pairs derived from 1,084 expert-curated images. SPUR features three key…

Currently, there are two popular approaches for addressing real-world image super-resolution problems: degradation-estimation-based and blind-based methods. However, degradation-estimation-based methods may be inaccurate in estimating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Axi Niu , Kang Zhang , Trung X. Pham , Pei Wang , Jinqiu Sun , In So Kweon , Yanning Zhang

High-resolution (HR) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is crucial for many clinical and research applications. However, achieving it remains costly and constrained by technical trade-offs and experimental limitations. Super-resolution (SR)…

With the advent of image super-resolution (SR) algorithms, how to evaluate the quality of generated SR images has become an urgent task. Although full-reference methods perform well in SR image quality assessment (SR-IQA), their reliance on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Xinying Lin , Xuyang Liu , Hong Yang , Xiaohai He , Honggang Chen

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have significantly advanced Image Super-Resolution (SR), yet most CNN-based methods rely solely on pixel-based transformations, often leading to artifacts and blurring, particularly under severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Bingwen Hu , Heng Liu , Zhedong Zheng , Ping Liu

Super-resolution (SR) has traditionally been based on pairs of high-resolution images (HR) and their low-resolution (LR) counterparts obtained artificially with bicubic downsampling. However, in real-world SR, there is a large variety of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-06 Mohammad Saeed Rad , Thomas Yu , Claudiu Musat , Hazim Kemal Ekenel , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Jean-Philippe Thiran