Connectionists: CFP: CVPR 2020 New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement (NTIRE) workshop and challenges

[Radu Timofte]

Apologies for cross-posting
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CALL FOR PAPERS  & CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS IN 9 CHALLENGES

NTIRE: 5th New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement workshop and
challenges on real world super-resolution, extreme SR, denoising,
demoireing, deblurring, spectral reconstruction, quality mapping,
nonhomogeneous dehazing
In conjunction with CVPR 2020, June 15, Seattle, USA.

Website: http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/ntire20/
Contact: radu.timofte at vision.ee.ethz.ch

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 imaging
● Underwater imaging
● Methods robust to changing weather conditions / adverse outdoor
conditions
● Image/video restoration, enhancement, manipulation on constrained
settings
● Image/video processing on 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, depth 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.
http://cvpr2020.thecvf.com/submission/main-conference/author-guidelines
The review process is double blind.
Accepted and presented papers will be published after the conference in the
CVPR 2020 Workshops Proceedings.

Author Kit:
http://cvpr2020.thecvf.com/sites/default/files/2019-09/cvpr2020AuthorKit.zip

Submission site: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NTIRE2020

WORKSHOP DATES

● *Regular Papers Submission Deadline: March 15, 2020*
● Challenge Papers Submission Deadline: April 04, 2020

IMAGE CHALLENGES (*ongoing!*)

   1. *Perceptual Extreme Super-Resolution *(x16)
   2.
*Real-World Super-Resolution *
   3. *Real Denoising* (rawRGB and sRGB)
4. *Deblurring  *(on desktop and on smartphone)
5. *Demoireing* (single image and burst)
6. *Spectral Reconstruction from RGB*
   7.
*Nonhomogeneous Dehazing *


VIDEO CHALLENGES (*ongoing!*)

   1. *Quality Mapping* (supervised and weakly supervised)
2. *Deblurring*

To learn more about the challenges, to participate in the challenges, and
to access the data everybody is invited to check the NTIRE webpage:
http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/ntire20/

CHALLENGES DATES

● Release of train data: January 10, 2020
● *Competitions end: March 23, 2020*

ORGANIZERS

● Radu Timofte, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
● Martin Danelljan, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
● Shuhang Gu, ETH Zurich, Switzerland & University of Sydney, Australia
● Kai Zhang, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
● Lei Zhang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
● Ming-Hsuan Yang, University of California at Merced, US
● Luc Van Gool, ETH Zurich, Switzerland  and KU Leuven, Belgium
● Cosmin Ancuti, UPT, Romania
● Codruta O. Ancuti, University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania
● Kyoung Mu Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
● Michael S. Brown, York University, Canada
● Eli Shechtman, Adobe Research
● Zhiwu Huang, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
● Seungjun Nah, Seoul National University, Korea
● Abdelrahman Kamel Siddek Abdelhamed, York University, Canada
● Mahmoud Afifi, York University, Canada
● Boaz Arad, Voyage 81, Israel
● Shanxin Yuan, Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, UK
● Gregory Slabaugh, Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, UK

SPEAKERS (TBA)

SPONSORS (TBA)


Website: http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/ntire20/
Contact: radu.timofte at vision.ee.ethz.ch
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