NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Short-form UGC Video Restoration in the Wild with Generative Models: Datasets, Methods and Results

This paper presents an overview of the NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Short-form UGC Video Restoration in the Wild with Generative Models. This challenge utilizes a new short-form UGC (S-UGC) video restoration benchmark, termed KwaiVIR, which is contributed by USTC and Kuaishou Technology. It contains both synthetically distorted videos and real-world short-form UGC videos in the wild. For this edition, the released data include 200 synthetic training videos, 48 wild training videos, 11 validation videos, and 20 testing videos. The primary goal of this challenge is to establish a strong and practical benchmark for restoring short-form UGC videos under complex real-world degradations, especially in the emerging paradigm of generative-model-based S-UGC video restoration. This challenge has two tracks: (i) the primary track is a subjective track, where the evaluation is based on a user study; (ii) the second track is an objective track. These two tracks enable a comprehensive assessment of restoration quality. In total, 95 teams have registered for this competition. And 12 teams submitted valid final solutions and fact sheets for the testing phase. The submitted methods achieved strong performance on the KwaiVIR benchmark, demonstrating encouraging progress in short-form UGC video restoration in the wild.

Deep Learning Modeling Method for RF Devices Based on Uniform Noise Training Set

As the scale and complexity of integrated circuits continue to increase, traditional modeling methods are struggling to address the nonlinear challenges in radio frequency (RF) chips. Deep learning has been increasingly applied to RF device modeling. This paper proposes a deep learning-based modeling method for RF devices using a uniform noise training set, aimed at modeling and fitting the nonlinear characteristics of RF devices. We hypothesize that a uniform noise signal can encompass the full range of characteristics across both frequency and amplitude, and that a deep learning model can effectively capture and learn these features. Based on this hypothesis, the paper designs a complete integrated circuit modeling process based on measured data, including data collection, processing, and neural network training. The proposed method is experimentally validated using the RF amplifier PW210 as a case study. Experimental results show that the uniform noise training set allows the model to capture the nonlinear characteristics of RF devices, and the trained model can predict waveform patterns it has never encountered before. The proposed deep learning-based RF device modeling method, using a uniform noise training set, demonstrates strong generalization capability and excellent training performance, offering high practical application value.