Connectionists: CFP: CVPR 2021 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 11 CHALLENGES

NTIRE: 6th New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement workshop and
challenges on
defocus, deblurring, super-resolution, learning SR space, nonhomogeneous
dehazing, image quality assessment, relighting, aerial image
classification, enhancement of compressed videos, HDR
In conjunction with CVPR 2021, June 15, Nashville, USA (VIRTUAL).

Website: http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/ntire21/
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://cvpr2021.thecvf.com/node/33
The review process is double blind.
Accepted and presented papers will be published after the conference in the
CVPR 2021 Workshops Proceedings.

Author Kit:
http://cvpr2021.thecvf.com/sites/default/files/2020-09/cvpr2021AuthorKit_2.zip
Submission site: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NTIRE2021

WORKSHOP DATES

● *Regular Papers Submission Deadline: March 05, 2021*
● Challenge Papers Submission Deadline: March 28, 2021

IMAGE CHALLENGES

   1. *Defocus Deblurring using Dual-Pixel Images*
   2. *Depth Guided Relighting *(one-to-one and any-to-any)
3. *Perceptual Image Quality Assessment*
4. *Deblurring  *(low resolution and JPEG artifacts)
5. *Multi-model Aerial View Classification* (SAR and EO)
6.
*Learning the Super-Resolution Space *
   7. *Nonhomogeneous Dehazing*


VIDEO / MULTI-FRAME CHALLENGES

   1. *Enhancement of Compressed Videos *(fixed bit-rate and fixed QP)
2. *Super-Resolution *(Spatial and Spatio-Temporal)
   3. *Burst Super-Resolution* (Real and Synthetic)
   4. *High Dynamic Range (HDR) *

To learn more about the challenges, to participate in the challenges, and
to access the data everybody is invited to check the NTIRE 2021 web page:
http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/ntire21/

For those interested in constrained and efficient solutions validated on
mobile devices we refer to the CVPR21* Mobile AI Workshop and Challenges:*
https://ai-benchmark.com/workshops/mai/2021/

CHALLENGES DATES

● Release of train data: January 10, 2020
● *Competitions end: March 08, 2020*

ORGANIZERS

● Radu Timofte, ETH Zurich
● Shuhang Gu, OPPO & University of Sydney
● Kyoung Mu Lee, Seoul National University
● Michael S. Brown, York University
● Andreas Lugmayr, ETH Zurich
● Martin Danelljan, ETH Zurich
● Cosmin Ancuti, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)
● Codruta O. Ancuti, University Politehnica Timisoara
● Lei Zhang, Alibaba & The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
● Ming-Hsuan Yang, University of California at Merced & Google
● Eli Shechtman, Creative Intelligence Lab at Adobe Research
● Seungjun Nah, Seoul National University, Korea
● Abdullah Abuolaim, York University, Canada
● Eduardo Perez-Pellitero, Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, UK
● Ales Leonardis, Huawei Noah's Ark Lab & University of Birmingham
● Seungjun Nah, Seoul National University
● Sanghyun Son, Seoul National University
● Suyoung Lee, Seoul National University
● Ren Yang, ETH Zurich
● Ruofan Zhou, EPFL
● Majed El Helou, EPFL
● Sabine Süsstrunk, EPFL
● Chao Dong, SIAT
● Jimmy Ren, SenseTime
● Oliver Nina, AF Research Lab
● Bob Lee, Wright Brothers Institute
● Jinjin Gu, University of Sydney
● Luc Van Gool, KU Leuven and ETH Zurich

SPEAKERS (TBA)

SPONSORS (TBA)


Website: http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/ntire21/
Contact: radu.timofte at vision.ee.ethz.ch
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