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NTIRE 2022 Challenge on High Dynamic Range Imaging: Methods and Results

May 25, 2022
Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero, Sibi Catley-Chandar, Richard Shaw, Aleš Leonardis, Radu Timofte, Zexin Zhang, Cen Liu, Yunbo Peng, Yue Lin, Gaocheng Yu, Jin Zhang, Zhe Ma, Hongbin Wang, Xiangyu Chen, Xintao Wang, Haiwei Wu, Lin Liu, Chao Dong, Jiantao Zhou, Qingsen Yan, Song Zhang, Weiye Chen, Yuhang Liu, Zhen Zhang, Yanning Zhang, Javen Qinfeng Shi, Dong Gong, Dan Zhu, Mengdi Sun, Guannan Chen, Yang Hu, Haowei Li, Baozhu Zou, Zhen Liu, Wenjie Lin, Ting Jiang, Chengzhi Jiang, Xinpeng Li, Mingyan Han, Haoqiang Fan, Jian Sun, Shuaicheng Liu, Juan Marín-Vega, Michael Sloth, Peter Schneider-Kamp, Richard Röttger, Chunyang Li, Long Bao, Gang He, Ziyao Xu, Li Xu, Gen Zhan, Ming Sun, Xing Wen, Junlin Li, Jinjing Li, Chenghua Li, Ruipeng Gang, Fangya Li, Chenming Liu, Shuang Feng, Fei Lei, Rui Liu, Junxiang Ruan, Tianhong Dai, Wei Li, Zhan Lu, Hengyan Liu, Peian Huang, Guangyu Ren, Yonglin Luo, Chang Liu, Qiang Tu, Fangya Li, Ruipeng Gang, Chenghua Li, Jinjing Li, Sai Ma, Chenming Liu, Yizhen Cao, Steven Tel, Barthelemy Heyrman, Dominique Ginhac, Chul Lee, Gahyeon Kim, Seonghyun Park, An Gia Vien, Truong Thanh Nhat Mai, Howoon Yoon, Tu Vo, Alexander Holston, Sheir Zaheer, Chan Y. Park

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This paper reviews the challenge on constrained high dynamic range (HDR) imaging that was part of the New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement (NTIRE) workshop, held in conjunction with CVPR 2022. This manuscript focuses on the competition set-up, datasets, the proposed methods and their results. The challenge aims at estimating an HDR image from multiple respective low dynamic range (LDR) observations, which might suffer from under- or over-exposed regions and different sources of noise. The challenge is composed of two tracks with an emphasis on fidelity and complexity constraints: In Track 1, participants are asked to optimize objective fidelity scores while imposing a low-complexity constraint (i.e. solutions can not exceed a given number of operations). In Track 2, participants are asked to minimize the complexity of their solutions while imposing a constraint on fidelity scores (i.e. solutions are required to obtain a higher fidelity score than the prescribed baseline). Both tracks use the same data and metrics: Fidelity is measured by means of PSNR with respect to a ground-truth HDR image (computed both directly and with a canonical tonemapping operation), while complexity metrics include the number of Multiply-Accumulate (MAC) operations and runtime (in seconds).

* Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2022  
* CVPR Workshops 2022. 15 pages, 21 figures, 2 tables 
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NTIRE 2021 Challenge on Quality Enhancement of Compressed Video: Methods and Results

May 02, 2021
Ren Yang, Radu Timofte, Jing Liu, Yi Xu, Xinjian Zhang, Minyi Zhao, Shuigeng Zhou, Kelvin C. K. Chan, Shangchen Zhou, Xiangyu Xu, Chen Change Loy, Xin Li, Fanglong Liu, He Zheng, Lielin Jiang, Qi Zhang, Dongliang He, Fu Li, Qingqing Dang, Yibin Huang, Matteo Maggioni, Zhongqian Fu, Shuai Xiao, Cheng li, Thomas Tanay, Fenglong Song, Wentao Chao, Qiang Guo, Yan Liu, Jiang Li, Xiaochao Qu, Dewang Hou, Jiayu Yang, Lyn Jiang, Di You, Zhenyu Zhang, Chong Mou, Iaroslav Koshelev, Pavel Ostyakov, Andrey Somov, Jia Hao, Xueyi Zou, Shijie Zhao, Xiaopeng Sun, Yiting Liao, Yuanzhi Zhang, Qing Wang, Gen Zhan, Mengxi Guo, Junlin Li, Ming Lu, Zhan Ma, Pablo Navarrete Michelini, Hai Wang, Yiyun Chen, Jingyu Guo, Liliang Zhang, Wenming Yang, Sijung Kim, Syehoon Oh, Yucong Wang, Minjie Cai, Wei Hao, Kangdi Shi, Liangyan Li, Jun Chen, Wei Gao, Wang Liu, Xiaoyu Zhang, Linjie Zhou, Sixin Lin, Ru Wang

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This paper reviews the first NTIRE challenge on quality enhancement of compressed video, with a focus on the proposed methods and results. In this challenge, the new Large-scale Diverse Video (LDV) dataset is employed. The challenge has three tracks. Tracks 1 and 2 aim at enhancing the videos compressed by HEVC at a fixed QP, while Track 3 is designed for enhancing the videos compressed by x265 at a fixed bit-rate. Besides, the quality enhancement of Tracks 1 and 3 targets at improving the fidelity (PSNR), and Track 2 targets at enhancing the perceptual quality. The three tracks totally attract 482 registrations. In the test phase, 12 teams, 8 teams and 11 teams submitted the final results of Tracks 1, 2 and 3, respectively. The proposed methods and solutions gauge the state-of-the-art of video quality enhancement. The homepage of the challenge: https://github.com/RenYang-home/NTIRE21_VEnh

* Corrected the MOS values in Table 2 
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