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Efficient and Accurate Quantized Image Super-Resolution on Mobile NPUs, Mobile AI & AIM 2022 challenge: Report

Nov 07, 2022
Andrey Ignatov, Radu Timofte, Maurizio Denna, Abdel Younes, Ganzorig Gankhuyag, Jingang Huh, Myeong Kyun Kim, Kihwan Yoon, Hyeon-Cheol Moon, Seungho Lee, Yoonsik Choe, Jinwoo Jeong, Sungjei Kim, Maciej Smyl, Tomasz Latkowski, Pawel Kubik, Michal Sokolski, Yujie Ma, Jiahao Chao, Zhou Zhou, Hongfan Gao, Zhengfeng Yang, Zhenbing Zeng, Zhengyang Zhuge, Chenghua Li, Dan Zhu, Mengdi Sun, Ran Duan, Yan Gao, Lingshun Kong, Long Sun, Xiang Li, Xingdong Zhang, Jiawei Zhang, Yaqi Wu, Jinshan Pan, Gaocheng Yu, Jin Zhang, Feng Zhang, Zhe Ma, Hongbin Wang, Hojin Cho, Steve Kim, Huaen Li, Yanbo Ma, Ziwei Luo, Youwei Li, Lei Yu, Zhihong Wen, Qi Wu, Haoqiang Fan, Shuaicheng Liu, Lize Zhang, Zhikai Zong, Jeremy Kwon, Junxi Zhang, Mengyuan Li, Nianxiang Fu, Guanchen Ding, Han Zhu, Zhenzhong Chen, Gen Li, Yuanfan Zhang, Lei Sun, Dafeng Zhang, Neo Yang, Fitz Liu, Jerry Zhao, Mustafa Ayazoglu, Bahri Batuhan Bilecen, Shota Hirose, Kasidis Arunruangsirilert, Luo Ao, Ho Chun Leung, Andrew Wei, Jie Liu, Qiang Liu, Dahai Yu, Ao Li, Lei Luo, Ce Zhu, Seongmin Hong, Dongwon Park, Joonhee Lee, Byeong Hyun Lee, Seunggyu Lee, Se Young Chun, Ruiyuan He, Xuhao Jiang, Haihang Ruan, Xinjian Zhang, Jing Liu, Garas Gendy, Nabil Sabor, Jingchao Hou, Guanghui He

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Image super-resolution is a common task on mobile and IoT devices, where one often needs to upscale and enhance low-resolution images and video frames. While numerous solutions have been proposed for this problem in the past, they are usually not compatible with low-power mobile NPUs having many computational and memory constraints. In this Mobile AI challenge, we address this problem and propose the participants to design an efficient quantized image super-resolution solution that can demonstrate a real-time performance on mobile NPUs. The participants were provided with the DIV2K dataset and trained INT8 models to do a high-quality 3X image upscaling. The runtime of all models was evaluated on the Synaptics VS680 Smart Home board with a dedicated edge NPU capable of accelerating quantized neural networks. All proposed solutions are fully compatible with the above NPU, demonstrating an up to 60 FPS rate when reconstructing Full HD resolution images. A detailed description of all models developed in the challenge is provided in this paper.

* arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2105.07825, arXiv:2105.08826, arXiv:2211.04470, arXiv:2211.03885, arXiv:2211.05256 
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NTIRE 2020 Challenge on Real Image Denoising: Dataset, Methods and Results

May 08, 2020
Abdelrahman Abdelhamed, Mahmoud Afifi, Radu Timofte, Michael S. Brown, Yue Cao, Zhilu Zhang, Wangmeng Zuo, Xiaoling Zhang, Jiye Liu, Wendong Chen, Changyuan Wen, Meng Liu, Shuailin Lv, Yunchao Zhang, Zhihong Pan, Baopu Li, Teng Xi, Yanwen Fan, Xiyu Yu, Gang Zhang, Jingtuo Liu, Junyu Han, Errui Ding, Songhyun Yu, Bumjun Park, Jechang Jeong, Shuai Liu, Ziyao Zong, Nan Nan, Chenghua Li, Zengli Yang, Long Bao, Shuangquan Wang, Dongwoon Bai, Jungwon Lee, Youngjung Kim, Kyeongha Rho, Changyeop Shin, Sungho Kim, Pengliang Tang, Yiyun Zhao, Yuqian Zhou, Yuchen Fan, Thomas Huang, Zhihao Li, Nisarg A. Shah, Wei Liu, Qiong Yan, Yuzhi Zhao, Marcin Możejko, Tomasz Latkowski, Lukasz Treszczotko, Michał Szafraniuk, Krzysztof Trojanowski, Yanhong Wu, Pablo Navarrete Michelini, Fengshuo Hu, Yunhua Lu, Sujin Kim, Wonjin Kim, Jaayeon Lee, Jang-Hwan Choi, Magauiya Zhussip, Azamat Khassenov, Jong Hyun Kim, Hwechul Cho, Priya Kansal, Sabari Nathan, Zhangyu Ye, Xiwen Lu, Yaqi Wu, Jiangxin Yang, Yanlong Cao, Siliang Tang, Yanpeng Cao, Matteo Maggioni, Ioannis Marras, Thomas Tanay, Gregory Slabaugh, Youliang Yan, Myungjoo Kang, Han-Soo Choi, Kyungmin Song, Shusong Xu, Xiaomu Lu, Tingniao Wang, Chunxia Lei, Bin Liu, Rajat Gupta, Vineet Kumar

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This paper reviews the NTIRE 2020 challenge on real image denoising with focus on the newly introduced dataset, the proposed methods and their results. The challenge is a new version of the previous NTIRE 2019 challenge on real image denoising that was based on the SIDD benchmark. This challenge is based on a newly collected validation and testing image datasets, and hence, named SIDD+. This challenge has two tracks for quantitatively evaluating image denoising performance in (1) the Bayer-pattern rawRGB and (2) the standard RGB (sRGB) color spaces. Each track ~250 registered participants. A total of 22 teams, proposing 24 methods, competed in the final phase of the challenge. The proposed methods by the participating teams represent the current state-of-the-art performance in image denoising targeting real noisy images. The newly collected SIDD+ datasets are publicly available at: https://bit.ly/siddplus_data.

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Superkernel Neural Architecture Search for Image Denoising

Apr 19, 2020
Marcin Możejko, Tomasz Latkowski, Łukasz Treszczotko, Michał Szafraniuk, Krzysztof Trojanowski

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Recent advancements in Neural Architecture Search(NAS) resulted in finding new state-of-the-art Artificial Neural Network (ANN) solutions for tasks like image classification, object detection, or semantic segmentation without substantial human supervision. In this paper, we focus on exploring NAS for a dense prediction task that is image denoising. Due to a costly training procedure, most NAS solutions for image enhancement rely on reinforcement learning or evolutionary algorithm exploration, which usually take weeks (or even months) to train. Therefore, we introduce a new efficient implementation of various superkernel techniques that enable fast (6-8 RTX2080 GPU hours) single-shot training of models for dense predictions. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on the SIDD+ benchmark for image denoising.

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