NTIRE 2024 image shadow removal challenge report

FA Vasluianu, T Seizinger, Z Zhou… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This work reviews the results of the NTIRE 2024 Challenge on Shadow Removal. Building
on the last year edition the current challenge was organized in two tracks with a track …

Diffusion Models for Image Restoration and Enhancement--A Comprehensive Survey

X Li, Y Ren, X Jin, C Lan, X Wang, W Zeng… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Image restoration (IR) has been an indispensable and challenging task in the low-level
vision field, which strives to improve the subjective quality of images distorted by various …

Low-light image enhancement with wavelet-based diffusion models

H Jiang, A Luo, H Fan, S Han, S Liu - ACM Transactions on Graphics …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Diffusion models have achieved promising results in image restoration tasks, yet suffer from
time-consuming, excessive computational resource consumption, and unstable restoration …

Image restoration with mean-reverting stochastic differential equations

Z Luo, FK Gustafsson, Z Zhao, J Sjölund… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a stochastic differential equation (SDE) approach for general-purpose
image restoration. The key construction consists in a mean-reverting SDE that transforms a …

NTIRE 2023 challenge on stereo image super-resolution: Methods and results

L Wang, Y Guo, Y Wang, J Li, S Gu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In this paper, we summarize the 2nd NTIRE challenge on stereo image super-resolution
(SR) with a focus on new solutions and results. The task of the challenge is to super-resolve …

Inversion by direct iteration: An alternative to denoising diffusion for image restoration

M Delbracio, P Milanfar - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.11435, 2023 - arxiv.org
Inversion by Direct Iteration (InDI) is a new formulation for supervised image restoration that
avoids the so-called" regression to the mean" effect and produces more realistic and …

Lens-to-lens bokeh effect transformation. NTIRE 2023 challenge report

MV Conde, M Kolmet, T Seizinger… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present the new Bokeh Effect Transformation Dataset (BETD), and review the proposed
solutions for this novel task at the NTIRE 2023 Bokeh Effect Transformation Challenge …

Diffusionsat: A generative foundation model for satellite imagery

S Khanna, P Liu, L Zhou, C Meng… - The Twelfth …, 2023 - openreview.net
Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art results on many modalities including
images, speech, and video. However, existing models are not tailored to support remote …

NTIRE 2024 challenge on low light image enhancement: Methods and results

X Liu, Z Wu, A Li, FA Vasluianu, Y Zhang, S Gu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper reviews the NTIRE 2024 low light image enhancement challenge, highlighting
the proposed solutions and results. The aim of this challenge is to discover an effective …

Shadow-Enlightened Image Outpainting

H Yu, R Li, S Xie, J Qiu - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Conventional image outpainting methods usually treat unobserved areas as unknown and
extend the scene only in terms of semantic consistency thus overlooking the hidden …