NTIRE 2022 Challenge on Super-Resolution and Quality Enhancement of Compressed Video: Dataset, Methods and Results

2 code implementations • 20 Apr 2022 • Ren Yang, Radu Timofte, Meisong Zheng, Qunliang Xing, Minglang Qiao, Mai Xu, Lai Jiang, Huaida Liu, Ying Chen, Youcheng Ben, Xiao Zhou, Chen Fu, Pei Cheng, Gang Yu, Junyi Li, Renlong Wu, Zhilu Zhang, Wei Shang, Zhengyao Lv, Yunjin Chen, Mingcai Zhou, Dongwei Ren, Kai Zhang, WangMeng Zuo, Pavel Ostyakov, Vyal Dmitry, Shakarim Soltanayev, Chervontsev Sergey, Zhussip Magauiya, Xueyi Zou, Youliang Yan, Pablo Navarrete Michelini, Yunhua Lu, Diankai Zhang, Shaoli Liu, Si Gao, Biao Wu, Chengjian Zheng, Xiaofeng Zhang, Kaidi Lu, Ning Wang, Thuong Nguyen Canh, Thong Bach, Qing Wang, Xiaopeng Sun, Haoyu Ma, Shijie Zhao, Junlin Li, Liangbin Xie, Shuwei Shi, Yujiu Yang, Xintao Wang, Jinjin Gu, Chao Dong, Xiaodi Shi, Chunmei Nian, Dong Jiang, Jucai Lin, Zhihuai Xie, Mao Ye, Dengyan Luo, Liuhan Peng, Shengjie Chen, Qian Wang, Xin Liu, Boyang Liang, Hang Dong, Yuhao Huang, Kai Chen, Xingbei Guo, Yujing Sun, Huilei Wu, Pengxu Wei, Yulin Huang, Junying Chen, Ik Hyun Lee, Sunder Ali Khowaja, Jiseok Yoon

This challenge includes three tracks.

Super-Resolution

edge-SR: Super-Resolution For The Masses

1 code implementation • 23 Aug 2021 • Pablo Navarrete Michelini, Yunhua Lu, Xingqun Jiang

We explore possible solutions to this problem with the aim to fill the gap between classic upscalers and small deep learning configurations.

Deep Learning Image Super-Resolution

NTIRE 2021 Challenge on Quality Enhancement of Compressed Video: Methods and Results

1 code implementation • 21 Apr 2021 • Ren Yang, Radu Timofte, Jing Liu, Yi Xu, Xinjian Zhang, Minyi Zhao, Shuigeng Zhou, Kelvin C. K. Chan, Shangchen Zhou, Xiangyu Xu, Chen Change Loy, Xin Li, Fanglong Liu, He Zheng, Lielin Jiang, Qi Zhang, Dongliang He, Fu Li, Qingqing Dang, Yibin Huang, Matteo Maggioni, Zhongqian Fu, Shuai Xiao, Cheng Li, Thomas Tanay, Fenglong Song, Wentao Chao, Qiang Guo, Yan Liu, Jiang Li, Xiaochao Qu, Dewang Hou, Jiayu Yang, Lyn Jiang, Di You, Zhenyu Zhang, Chong Mou, Iaroslav Koshelev, Pavel Ostyakov, Andrey Somov, Jia Hao, Xueyi Zou, Shijie Zhao, Xiaopeng Sun, Yiting Liao, Yuanzhi Zhang, Qing Wang, Gen Zhan, Mengxi Guo, Junlin Li, Ming Lu, Zhan Ma, Pablo Navarrete Michelini, Hai Wang, Yiyun Chen, Jingyu Guo, Liliang Zhang, Wenming Yang, Sijung Kim, Syehoon Oh, Yucong Wang, Minjie Cai, Wei Hao, Kangdi Shi, Liangyan Li, Jun Chen, Wei Gao, Wang Liu, XiaoYu Zhang, Linjie Zhou, Sixin Lin, Ru Wang

This paper reviews the first NTIRE challenge on quality enhancement of compressed video, with a focus on the proposed methods and results.

Back-Projection Pipeline

no code implementations • 25 Jan 2021 • Pablo Navarrete Michelini, Hanwen Liu, Yunhua Lu, Xingqun Jiang

We propose a simple extension of residual networks that works simultaneously in multiple resolutions.

Raindrop Removal Rain Removal +1

Multi-Grid Back-Projection Networks

no code implementations • 1 Jan 2021 • Pablo Navarrete Michelini, Wenbin Chen, Hanwen Liu, Dan Zhu, Xingqun Jiang

For this target we propose a strategy using noise inputs in different resolution scales to control the amount of artificial details generated in the output.

AIM 2020 Challenge on Video Extreme Super-Resolution: Methods and Results

no code implementations • 14 Sep 2020 • Dario Fuoli, Zhiwu Huang, Shuhang Gu, Radu Timofte, Arnau Raventos, Aryan Esfandiari, Salah Karout, Xuan Xu, Xin Li, Xin Xiong, Jinge Wang, Pablo Navarrete Michelini, Wen-Hao Zhang, Dongyang Zhang, Hanwei Zhu, Dan Xia, Haoyu Chen, Jinjin Gu, Zhi Zhang, Tongtong Zhao, Shanshan Zhao, Kazutoshi Akita, Norimichi Ukita, Hrishikesh P. S, Densen Puthussery, Jiji C. V

Missing information can be restored well in this region, especially in HR videos, where the high-frequency content mostly consists of texture details.

Image Super-Resolution SSIM +1

NTIRE 2020 Challenge on Real Image Denoising: Dataset, Methods and Results

1 code implementation • 8 May 2020 • Abdelrahman Abdelhamed, Mahmoud Afifi, Radu Timofte, Michael S. Brown, Yue Cao, Zhilu Zhang, WangMeng Zuo, Xiaoling Zhang, Jiye Liu, Wendong Chen, Changyuan Wen, Meng Liu, Shuailin Lv, Yunchao Zhang, Zhihong Pan, Baopu Li, Teng Xi, Yanwen Fan, Xiyu Yu, Gang Zhang, Jingtuo Liu, Junyu Han, Errui Ding, Songhyun Yu, Bumjun Park, Jechang Jeong, Shuai Liu, Ziyao Zong, Nan Nan, Chenghua Li, Zengli Yang, Long Bao, Shuangquan Wang, Dongwoon Bai, Jungwon Lee, Youngjung Kim, Kyeongha Rho, Changyeop Shin, Sungho Kim, Pengliang Tang, Yiyun Zhao, Yuqian Zhou, Yuchen Fan, Thomas Huang, Zhihao LI, Nisarg A. Shah, Wei Liu, Qiong Yan, Yuzhi Zhao, Marcin Możejko, Tomasz Latkowski, Lukasz Treszczotko, Michał Szafraniuk, Krzysztof Trojanowski, Yanhong Wu, Pablo Navarrete Michelini, Fengshuo Hu, Yunhua Lu, Sujin Kim, Wonjin Kim, Jaayeon Lee, Jang-Hwan Choi, Magauiya Zhussip, Azamat Khassenov, Jong Hyun Kim, Hwechul Cho, Priya Kansal, Sabari Nathan, Zhangyu Ye, Xiwen Lu, Yaqi Wu, Jiangxin Yang, Yanlong Cao, Siliang Tang, Yanpeng Cao, Matteo Maggioni, Ioannis Marras, Thomas Tanay, Gregory Slabaugh, Youliang Yan, Myungjoo Kang, Han-Soo Choi, Kyungmin Song, Shusong Xu, Xiaomu Lu, Tingniao Wang, Chunxia Lei, Bin Liu, Rajat Gupta, Vineet Kumar

This challenge is based on a newly collected validation and testing image datasets, and hence, named SIDD+.

Image Denoising

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

5 code implementations • 5 May 2020 • Andreas Lugmayr, Martin Danelljan, Radu Timofte, Namhyuk Ahn, Dongwoon Bai, Jie Cai, Yun Cao, Junyang Chen, Kaihua Cheng, SeYoung Chun, Wei Deng, Mostafa El-Khamy, Chiu Man Ho, Xiaozhong Ji, Amin Kheradmand, Gwantae Kim, Hanseok Ko, Kanghyu Lee, Jungwon Lee, Hao Li, Ziluan Liu, Zhi-Song Liu, Shuai Liu, Yunhua Lu, Zibo Meng, Pablo Navarrete Michelini, Christian Micheloni, Kalpesh Prajapati, Haoyu Ren, Yong Hyeok Seo, Wan-Chi Siu, Kyung-Ah Sohn, Ying Tai, Rao Muhammad Umer, Shuangquan Wang, Huibing Wang, Timothy Haoning Wu, Hao-Ning Wu, Biao Yang, Fuzhi Yang, Jaejun Yoo, Tongtong Zhao, Yuanbo Zhou, Haijie Zhuo, Ziyao Zong, Xueyi Zou

This paper reviews the NTIRE 2020 challenge on real world super-resolution.

Benchmarking Image Super-Resolution

MGBPv2: Scaling Up Multi-Grid Back-Projection Networks

1 code implementation • 27 Sep 2019 • Pablo Navarrete Michelini, Wenbin Chen, Hanwen Liu, Dan Zhu

Here, we describe our solution for the AIM-2019 Extreme Super-Resolution Challenge, where we won the 1st place in terms of perceptual quality (MOS) similar to the ground truth and achieved the 5th place in terms of high-fidelity (PSNR).

Image and Video Processing

A Tour of Convolutional Networks Guided by Linear Interpreters

1 code implementation • ICCV 2019 • Pablo Navarrete Michelini, Hanwen Liu, Yunhua Lu, Xingqun Jiang

These units are the "articulations" that allow the network to adapt to the input.

Image-to-Image Translation Super-Resolution

PIRM Challenge on Perceptual Image Enhancement on Smartphones: Report

no code implementations • 3 Oct 2018 • Andrey Ignatov, Radu Timofte, Thang Van Vu, Tung Minh Luu, Trung X. Pham, Cao Van Nguyen, Yongwoo Kim, Jae-Seok Choi, Munchurl Kim, Jie Huang, Jiewen Ran, Chen Xing, Xingguang Zhou, Pengfei Zhu, Mingrui Geng, Yawei Li, Eirikur Agustsson, Shuhang Gu, Luc van Gool, Etienne de Stoutz, Nikolay Kobyshev, Kehui Nie, Yan Zhao, Gen Li, Tong Tong, Qinquan Gao, Liu Hanwen, Pablo Navarrete Michelini, Zhu Dan, Hu Fengshuo, Zheng Hui, Xiumei Wang, Lirui Deng, Rang Meng, Jinghui Qin, Yukai Shi, Wushao Wen, Liang Lin, Ruicheng Feng, Shixiang Wu, Chao Dong, Yu Qiao, Subeesh Vasu, Nimisha Thekke Madam, Praveen Kandula, A. N. Rajagopalan, Jie Liu, Cheolkon Jung

This paper reviews the first challenge on efficient perceptual image enhancement with the focus on deploying deep learning models on smartphones.

Image Enhancement Image Super-Resolution

Multi-Scale Recursive and Perception-Distortion Controllable Image Super-Resolution

1 code implementation • 27 Sep 2018 • Pablo Navarrete Michelini, Dan Zhu, Hanwen Liu

We describe our solution for the PIRM Super-Resolution Challenge 2018 where we achieved the 2nd best perceptual quality for average RMSE<=16, 5th best for RMSE<=12. 5, and 7th best for RMSE<=11. 5.

Image and Video Processing Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Machine Learning Signal Processing

Multigrid Backprojection Super-Resolution and Deep Filter Visualization

1 code implementation • 25 Sep 2018 • Pablo Navarrete Michelini, Hanwen Liu, Dan Zhu

It is also residual since we use the network to update the outputs of a classic upscaler.

Super-Resolution

Convolutional Networks with MuxOut Layers as Multi-rate Systems for Image Upscaling

no code implementations • 22 May 2017 • Pablo Navarrete Michelini, Hanwen Liu

We interpret convolutional networks as adaptive filters and combine them with so-called MuxOut layers to efficiently upscale low resolution images.