This paper reports on the NTIRE 2023 Quality Assessment of Video Enhancement Challenge, which will be held in conjunction with the New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE) at CVPR 2023. This challenge is to address a major challenge in the field of video processing, namely, video quality assessment (VQA) for enhanced videos. The challenge uses the VQA Dataset for Perceptual Video Enhancement (VDPVE), which has a total of 1211 enhanced videos, including 600 videos with color, brightness, and contrast enhancements, 310 videos with deblurring, and 301 deshaked videos. The challenge has a total of 167 registered participants. 61 participating teams submitted their prediction results during the development phase, with a total of 3168 submissions. A total of 176 submissions were submitted by 37 participating teams during the final testing phase. Finally, 19 participating teams submitted their models and fact sheets, and detailed the methods they used. Some methods have achieved better results than baseline methods, and the winning methods have demonstrated superior prediction performance.
Versatile Video Coding (VVC) has significantly increased encoding efficiency at the expense of numerous complex coding tools, particularly the flexible Quad-Tree plus Multi-type Tree (QTMT) block partition. This paper proposes a deep learning-based algorithm applied in fast QTMT partition for VVC intra coding. Our solution greatly reduces encoding time by early termination of less-likely intra prediction and partitions with negligible BD-BR increase. Firstly, a redesigned U-Net is recommended as the network's fundamental framework. Next, we design a Quality Parameter (QP) fusion network to regulate the effect of QPs on the partition results. Finally, we adopt a refined post-processing strategy to better balance encoding performance and complexity. Experimental results demonstrate that our solution outperforms the state-of-the-art works with a complexity reduction of 44.74% to 68.76% and a BD-BR increase of 0.60% to 2.33%.