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Illumination estimation is the essential step of computational color constancy, one of the core parts of various image processing pipelines of modern digital cameras. Having an accurate and reliable illumination estimation is important for…

6D pose estimation is crucial for augmented reality, virtual reality, robotic manipulation and visual navigation. However, the problem is challenging due to the variety of objects in the real world. They have varying 3D shape and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Honglin Yuan , Remco C. Veltkamp , Georgios Albanis , Nikolaos Zioulis , Dimitrios Zarpalas , Petros Daras

Existing face relighting methods often struggle with two problems: maintaining the local facial details of the subject and accurately removing and synthesizing shadows in the relit image, especially hard shadows. We propose a novel deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Andrew Hou , Ze Zhang , Michel Sarkis , Ning Bi , Yiying Tong , Xiaoming Liu

The 6th edition of the AI City Challenge specifically focuses on problems in two domains where there is tremendous unlocked potential at the intersection of computer vision and artificial intelligence: Intelligent Traffic Systems (ITS), and…

This paper reports on the NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Bitstream-Corrupted Video Restoration (BSCVR). The challenge aims to advance research on recovering visually coherent videos from corrupted bitstreams, whose decoding often produces severe…

Videos in the real-world contain various dynamics and motions that may look unnaturally discontinuous in time when the recordedframe rate is low. This paper reports the second AIM challenge on Video Temporal Super-Resolution (VTSR), a.k.a.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Sanghyun Son , Jaerin Lee , Seungjun Nah , Radu Timofte , Kyoung Mu Lee

Shadow detection in a single image has received significant research interest in recent years. However, much fewer works have been explored in shadow detection over dynamic scenes. The bottleneck is the lack of a well-established dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Zhihao Chen , Liang Wan , Lei Zhu , Jia Shen , Huazhu Fu , Wennan Liu , Jing Qin

Sketch-based 3D shape retrieval (SBSR) is an important yet challenging task, which has drawn more and more attention in recent years. Existing approaches address the problem in a restricted setting, without appropriately simulating real…

This paper presents the ISRGC-Q Challenge, built upon the Image Super-Resolution Generated Content Quality Assessment (ISRGen-QA) dataset, and organized as part of the Visual Quality Assessment (VQualA) Competition at the ICCV 2025…

This paper reviews the AIM 2019 challenge on real world super-resolution. It focuses on the participating methods and final results. The challenge addresses the real world setting, where paired true high and low-resolution images are…

In this paper, we introduce the first Challenge on Multi-modal Aerial View Object Classification (MAVOC) in conjunction with the NTIRE 2021 workshop at CVPR. This challenge is composed of two different tracks using EO andSAR imagery. Both…

The AI City Challenge was created with two goals in mind: (1) pushing the boundaries of research and development in intelligent video analysis for smarter cities use cases, and (2) assessing tasks where the level of performance is enough to…

The AI City Challenge's seventh edition emphasizes two domains at the intersection of computer vision and artificial intelligence - retail business and Intelligent Traffic Systems (ITS) - that have considerable untapped potential. The 2023…

This companion paper reports the ICPR 2026 TVRID competition on privacy-aware top-view person re-identification. We present the competition setting, the released RGB-Depth dataset, and a summary of final results with descriptions of the top…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Raphaël Delécluse , Hazem Wannous , Laurent Guimas

This paper presents a summary of the 2025 Sclera Segmentation Benchmarking Competition (SSBC), which focused on the development of privacy-preserving sclera-segmentation models trained using synthetically generated ocular images. The goal…

Shadow removal in a single image has received increasing attention in recent years. However, removing shadows over dynamic scenes remains largely under-explored. In this paper, we propose the first data-driven video shadow removal model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Zhihao Chen , Liang Wan , Yefan Xiao , Lei Zhu , Huazhu Fu

As facial interaction systems are prevalently deployed, security and reliability of these systems become a critical issue, with substantial research efforts devoted. Among them, face anti-spoofing emerges as an important area, whose…

Subtle visual signals, although difficult to perceive with the naked eye, contain important information that can reveal hidden patterns in visual data. These signals play a key role in many applications, including biometric security,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Dongliang Zhu , Zhiyi Niu , Bo Zhao , Jiajian Huang , Shuo Ye , Xun Lin , Hui Ma , Taorui Wang , Jiayu Zhang , Chunmei Zhu , Junzhe Cao , Yingjie Ma , Rencheng Song , Albert Clapés , Sergio Escalera , Dan Guo , Zitong Yu

Developing and integrating advanced image sensors with novel algorithms in camera systems are prevalent with the increasing demand for computational photography and imaging on mobile platforms. However, the lack of high-quality data for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Qianhui Sun , Qingyu Yang , Chongyi Li , Shangchen Zhou , Ruicheng Feng , Yuekun Dai , Wenxiu Sun , Qingpeng Zhu , Chen Change Loy , Jinwei Gu