Connectionists: [CFP] CVPR 2026 New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement (NTIRE) workshop and challenges

[Radu Timofte]

 Apologies for multiple postings
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CALL FOR PAPERS  & CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS IN 20 CHALLENGES

NTIRE: 11th New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement workshop and
challenges.
In conjunction with CVPR 2026, June 3-7, Denver, US.

Website: https://cvlai.net/ntire/2026/
Contact: radu.timofte at uni-wuerzburg.de

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 image restoration, enhancement, manipulation
● Underwater image restoration, enhancement, manipulation
● Light field image restoration, enhancement, manipulation
● Methods robust to changing weather conditions / adverse outdoor
conditions
● Image/video restoration, enhancement, manipulation on constrained
settings/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
● Saliency and gaze 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.
https://cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/2026/AuthorGuidelines
The review process is double blind.
Accepted and presented papers will be published after the conference in the
2026 CVPR Workshops Proceedings.

Author Kit:
https://github.com/cvpr-org/author-kit/archive/refs/tags/CVPR2026-v1(latex).zip
Submission site: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NTIRE2026


WORKSHOP DATES

●
*Early & Regular Papers submission deadline: March 10, 2026*
● Challenge Papers submission deadline: March 24, 2026
●
*Papers reviewed elsewhere submission deadline: March 24, 2026 *

CHALLENGES


   - Ambient Light Normalization - Track White Lighting
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12703/>* started! *
   - Ambient Light Normalization - Track Color Lighting
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12792/>* started! *
   - Rip Current Detection and Segmentation
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12730/>* started! *
   - HR Depth from Images of Specular and Transparent Surfaces - Track
   Stereo <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12777/>* started! *
   - HR Depth from Images of Specular and Transparent Surfaces - Track
   Metric Mono <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12778/>* started! *
   - Day and Night Raindrop Removal for Dual-Focused Images
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12808/>* started! *
   - Learned Smartphone ISP with Unpaired Data
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12932/>* started! *
   - NightTime Image Dehazing
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12855/>* started! *
   - Reflection Removal in the Wild
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12971/>* started! *
   - Efficient Under Display Camera Restoration
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12978/>* started! *
   - Image Shadow Removal <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12935/>*
   started! *
   - Bitstream-corrupted Video Restoration
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12856/>* started! *
   - Efficient Burst HDR and Restoration
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12922/>* started! *
   - Robust AI-Generated Image Detection in the Wild
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12761/>* started! *
   - 3D Content Super-Resolution - Track 1 Bicubic Degradation
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12891/>* started! *
   - 3D Content Super-Resolution - Track 2 Realistic Degradation
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12894/>* started! *
   - Light Field Image Super-Resolution - Track 1 Classic
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12928/>* started! *
   - Light Field Image Super-Resolution - Track 2 Efficiency
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12927/>* started! *
   - Light Field Image Super-Resolution - Track 3 Large Model
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12929/>* started! *
   - Low Light Image Enhancement
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/11864/>* started! *
   - Joint Denoising and Low Light Image Enhancement
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12994/>* started! *
   - Image Denoising <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12905/>*
   started! *
   - Event-Based Image Deblurring
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12918/>* started! *
   - Blind Computational Aberration Correction
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12818/>* started! *
   - Robust Deepfake Detection
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12795/>* started! *
   - Photography Retouching Transfer
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12917/>* started! *
   - Controllable Aperture Bokeh Rendering
   <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12764/>* started! *


   - Night Photography Rendering <https://www.cvlai.net/ntire/2026/>
   - X-AIGC Quality Assessment <https://www.cvlai.net/ntire/2026/>
   - Low Light Video Enhancement <https://www.cvlai.net/ntire/2026/>
   - Restore Any Image Model (RAIM) in the Wild
   <https://www.cvlai.net/ntire/2026/>
   - Image Super-Resolution <https://www.cvlai.net/ntire/2026/>
   - Efficient Image Super-Resolution <https://www.cvlai.net/ntire/2026/>
   - Video Saliency Prediction <https://www.cvlai.net/ntire/2026/>
   - Short-form UGC Video Restoration in the Wild with Generative Models
   <https://www.cvlai.net/ntire/2026/>
   - Anomaly Detection of Face Enhancement for UGC
   <https://www.cvlai.net/ntire/2026/>
   - Multi-frame HDR Denoising in Low Light
   <https://www.cvlai.net/ntire/2026/>
   - Deblurring <https://www.cvlai.net/ntire/2026/>
   - New Challenge <https://www.cvlai.net/ntire/2026/>


To learn more about the challenges, to participate in the challenges, and
to access the data everybody is invited to check the NTIRE 2026 page:
https://www.cvlai.net/ntire/2026/


CHALLENGES DATES

● *Release of train data: January, 2026*
● Competitions end: March 17, 2026

SPEAKERS (TBA)

SPONSORS (TBA)


Website: https://www.cvlai.net/ntire/2026/
Contact: radu.timofte at uni-wuerzburg.de
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