2nd. Thermal Image Super Resolution Challenge

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2nd. Thermal Image Super Resolution Challenge 

https://pbvs-workshop.github.io/challenge.html
 
in conjunction with the 
17th IEEE Workshop on Perception Beyond the Visible Spectrum (PBVS-CVPR 2021)

https://pbvs-workshop.github.io/

June 2021
Virtual

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Important Dates

    Registration open & dataset released: January 18, 2021
    Evaluation images distributed: March 2, 2021
    Deadline for challenge & result submitted: March 12, 2021
    Winner announcement: June 19, 2021


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Objective & Scope

The thermal image super-resolution (TISR) problem has become an
attractive research topic in recent years, mainly due to the appealing
results obtained with recent deep learning-based approaches. In order
to define a common benchmark for evaluating the different
contributions, the first challenge on TISR has been proposed at the
PBVS-2020 workshop. Due to the success of that first challenge, and
trying to keep improving the obtained results, this year the second
challenge on TISR is proposed in the framework of the PBVS-2021
workshop.

The challenge stated for this year consists in obtaining
super-resolution images at x2 and x4 scales from the given images.

Just the mid- and high-resolution images from last year's dataset will
be considered. Ground truth images for the x4 scale correspond to the
provided high-resolution images; in other words, each team should
down-sample the given images by x4 and use these down-sampled images
(by adding noise) as inputs to develop their solutions. Regarding the
x2 super-resolution solution, it should be developed using as an input
the given mid-resolution images acquired with the camera Axis Q2901-E
and as an output, the corresponding high-resolution images, of the
same scene, but acquired with the FLIR FC-632O camera. In other words,
the x2 scale proposed solution should be able to tackle both problems,
i.e., generating the super-resolution of the images acquired with the
camera Axis Q2901-E camera; as well as mapping images from one domain
(Axis Q2901-E camera) to another domain (FLIR FC-632O camera).

https://pbvs-workshop.github.io/challenge.html

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