New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement (NTIRE) Call for Papers

CVPR 2021 New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement (NTIRE) 
workshop and challenges

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CALL FOR PAPERS  & CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS IN 11 CHALLENGES

NTIRE: 6th New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement workshop
and challenges on defocus, deblurring, super-resolution, learning SR
space, nonhomogeneous dehazing, image quality assessment, relighting,
aerial image classification, enhancement of compressed videos, HDR

In conjunction with CVPR 2021, June 15, Nashville, USA (VIRTUAL).

Website: http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/ntire21/
Contact: radu.timofte@vision.ee.ethz.ch

TOPICS

* Image/video inpainting
* Image/video deblurring
* Image/video denoising
* Image/video upsampling and super-resolution
* Image/video filtering
* Image/video de-hazing, de-raining, de-snowing, etc.
* Demosaicing
* Image/video compression
* Removal of artifacts, shadows, glare and reflections, etc.
* Image/video enhancement: brightening, color adjustment, sharpening, etc.
* Style transfer
* Hyperspectral imaging
* Underwater imaging
* Methods robust to changing weather conditions / adverse outdoor conditions
* Image/video restoration, enhancement, manipulation on constrained settings
* Image/video processing on mobile devices
* Visual domain translation
* Multimodal translation
* Perceptual enhancement
* Perceptual manipulation
* Depth estimation
* Image/video generation and hallucination
* Image/video quality assessment
* Image/video semantic segmentation, depth estimation
* Studies and applications of the above.

SUBMISSION

A paper submission has to be in English, in pdf format, and at most 8
pages (excluding references) in CVPR style.
http://cvpr2021.thecvf.com/node/33 The review process is double blind.
Accepted and presented papers will be published after the conference
in the CVPR 2021 Workshops Proceedings.

Author Kit: 
http://cvpr2021.thecvf.com/sites/default/files/2020-09/cvpr2021AuthorKit_2.zip
Submission site: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NTIRE2021

WORKSHOP DATES

* Regular Papers Submission Deadline: March 05, 2021
* Challenge Papers Submission Deadline: March 28, 2021

IMAGE CHALLENGES

    Defocus Deblurring using Dual-Pixel Images
    Depth Guided Relighting (one-to-one and any-to-any)
    Perceptual Image Quality Assessment
    Deblurring  (low resolution and JPEG artifacts)
    Multi-model Aerial View Classification (SAR and EO)
    Learning the Super-Resolution Space
    Nonhomogeneous Dehazing


VIDEO / MULTI-FRAME CHALLENGES

    Enhancement of Compressed Videos (fixed bit-rate and fixed QP)
    Super-Resolution (Spatial and Spatio-Temporal)
    Burst Super-Resolution (Real and Synthetic)
    High Dynamic Range (HDR) 

To learn more about the challenges, to participate in the challenges,
and to access the data everybody is invited to check the NTIRE 2021
web page:
http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/ntire21/

For those interested in constrained and efficient solutions validated
on mobile devices we refer to the CVPR21 Mobile AI Workshop and
Challenges:
https://ai-benchmark.com/workshops/mai/2021/

CHALLENGES DATES

* Release of train data: January 10, 2020
* Competitions end: March 08, 2020

ORGANIZERS

* Radu Timofte, ETH Zurich
* Shuhang Gu, OPPO & University of Sydney
* Kyoung Mu Lee, Seoul National University
* Michael S. Brown, York University
* Andreas Lugmayr, ETH Zurich
* Martin Danelljan, ETH Zurich
* Cosmin Ancuti, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)
* Codruta O. Ancuti, University Politehnica Timisoara
* Lei Zhang, Alibaba & The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
* Ming-Hsuan Yang, University of California at Merced & Google
* Eli Shechtman, Creative Intelligence Lab at Adobe Research
* Seungjun Nah, Seoul National University, Korea
* Abdullah Abuolaim, York University, Canada
* Eduardo Perez-Pellitero, Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, UK
* Ales Leonardis, Huawei Noah's Ark Lab & University of Birmingham
* Seungjun Nah, Seoul National University
* Sanghyun Son, Seoul National University
* Suyoung Lee, Seoul National University
* Ren Yang, ETH Zurich
* Ruofan Zhou, EPFL
* Majed El Helou, EPFL
* Sabine Süsstrunk, EPFL
* Chao Dong, SIAT
* Jimmy Ren, SenseTime
* Oliver Nina, AF Research Lab
* Bob Lee, Wright Brothers Institute
* Jinjin Gu, University of Sydney
* Luc Van Gool, KU Leuven and ETH Zurich

SPEAKERS (TBA)

SPONSORS (TBA)


Website: http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/ntire21/
Contact: radu.timofte@vision.ee.ethz.ch