AIM 2020 Challenge on Real Image Super-Resolution: Methods and Results

25 Sep 2020 · Pengxu Wei, Hannan Lu, Radu Timofte, Liang Lin, WangMeng Zuo, Zhihong Pan, Baopu Li, Teng Xi, Yanwen Fan, Gang Zhang, Jingtuo Liu, Junyu Han, Errui Ding, Tangxin Xie, Liang Cao, Yan Zou, Yi Shen, Jialiang Zhang, Yu Jia, Kaihua Cheng, Chenhuan Wu, Yue Lin, Cen Liu, Yunbo Peng, Xueyi Zou, Zhipeng Luo, Yuehan Yao, Zhenyu Xu, Syed Waqas Zamir, Aditya Arora, Salman Khan, Munawar Hayat, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Tongtong Zhao, Shanshan Zhao, Yoseob Han, Byung-Hoon Kim, JaeHyun Baek, HaoNing Wu, Dejia Xu, Bo Zhou, Wei Guan, Xiaobo Li, Chen Ye, Hao Li, Yukai Shi, Zhijing Yang, Xiaojun Yang, Haoyu Zhong, Xin Li, Xin Jin, Yaojun Wu, Yingxue Pang, Sen Liu, Zhi-Song Liu, Li-Wen Wang, Chu-Tak Li, Marie-Paule Cani, Wan-Chi Siu, Yuanbo Zhou, Rao Muhammad Umer, Christian Micheloni, Xiaofeng Cong, Rajat Gupta, Keon-Hee Ahn, Jun-Hyuk Kim, Jun-Ho Choi, Jong-Seok Lee, Feras Almasri, Thomas Vandamme, Olivier Debeir ·

This paper introduces the real image Super-Resolution (SR) challenge that was part of the Advances in Image Manipulation (AIM) workshop, held in conjunction with ECCV 2020. This challenge involves three tracks to super-resolve an input image for $\times$2, $\times$3 and $\times$4 scaling factors, respectively. The goal is to attract more attention to realistic image degradation for the SR task, which is much more complicated and challenging, and contributes to real-world image super-resolution applications. 452 participants were registered for three tracks in total, and 24 teams submitted their results. They gauge the state-of-the-art approaches for real image SR in terms of PSNR and SSIM.

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