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

CVPR 2026 
New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement (NTIRE) workshop 
and challenges

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CALL FOR PAPERS  & CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS IN 20 CHALLENGES

NTIRE: 11th New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement workshop and challenges.
In conjunction with CVPR 2026, June 3-7, Denver, US.

Website: https://cvlai.net/ntire/2026/
Contact: radu.timofte@uni-wuerzburg.de

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 image restoration, enhancement, manipulation
? Underwater image restoration, enhancement, manipulation
? Light field image restoration, enhancement, manipulation
? Methods robust to changing weather conditions / adverse outdoor conditions
? Image/video restoration, enhancement, manipulation on constrained settings/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
? Saliency and gaze 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.
https://cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/2026/AuthorGuidelines
https://cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/2026/AuthorGuidelines
The review process is double blind.  Accepted and presented papers
will be published after the conference in the 2026 CVPR Workshops
Proceedings.

Author Kit: https://github.com/cvpr-org/author-kit/archive/refs/tags/CVPR2026-v1(latex).zip
Submission site: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NTIRE2026


WORKSHOP DATES

? Early & Regular Papers submission deadline: March 10, 2026
? Challenge Papers submission deadline: March 24, 2026
? Papers reviewed elsewhere submission deadline: March 24, 2026

CHALLENGES

    Ambient Light Normalization - Track White Lighting started!
    Ambient Light Normalization - Track Color Lighting started!
    Rip Current Detection and Segmentation started!
    HR Depth from Images of Specular and Transparent Surfaces - Track Stereo started!
    HR Depth from Images of Specular and Transparent Surfaces - Track Metric Mono started!
    Day and Night Raindrop Removal for Dual-Focused Images started!
    Learned Smartphone ISP with Unpaired Data started!
    NightTime Image Dehazing started!
    Reflection Removal in the Wild started!
    Efficient Under Display Camera Restoration started!
    Image Shadow Removal started!
    Bitstream-corrupted Video Restoration started!
    Efficient Burst HDR and Restoration started!
    Robust AI-Generated Image Detection in the Wild started!
    3D Content Super-Resolution - Track 1 Bicubic Degradation started!
    3D Content Super-Resolution - Track 2 Realistic Degradation started!
    Light Field Image Super-Resolution - Track 1 Classic started!
    Light Field Image Super-Resolution - Track 2 Efficiency started!
    Light Field Image Super-Resolution - Track 3 Large Model started!
    Low Light Image Enhancement started!
    Joint Denoising and Low Light Image Enhancement started!
    Image Denoising started!
    Event-Based Image Deblurring started!
    Blind Computational Aberration Correction started!
    Robust Deepfake Detection started!
    Photography Retouching Transfer started!
    Controllable Aperture Bokeh Rendering started! 

    Night Photography Rendering
    X-AIGC Quality Assessment
    Low Light Video Enhancement
    Restore Any Image Model (RAIM) in the Wild
    Image Super-Resolution
    Efficient Image Super-Resolution
    Video Saliency Prediction
    Short-form UGC Video Restoration in the Wild with Generative Models
    Anomaly Detection of Face Enhancement for UGC
    Multi-frame HDR Denoising in Low Light
    Deblurring
    New Challenge


To learn more about the challenges, to participate in the challenges,
and to access the data everybody is invited to check the NTIRE 2026
page:
https://www.cvlai.net/ntire/2026/


CHALLENGES DATES

? Release of train data: January, 2026
? Competitions end: March 17, 2026

SPEAKERS (TBA)

SPONSORS (TBA)

Website: https://www.cvlai.net/ntire/2026/
Contact: radu.timofte@uni-wuerzburg.de