R. Timofte

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1. NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Cross-Domain Few-Shot Object Detection: Methods and Results

   Yu-Qian Fu, Xingyu Qiu, Bin Ren, Yan-Wei Fu +59 more

   20252025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)44 citations Open access

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2. The Tenth NTIRE 2025 Efficient Super-Resolution Challenge Report

   Bin Ren, Hang Guo, Lei Sun, Zong-Wei Wu +142 more

   20252025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)40 citations Open access

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3. NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Day and Night Raindrop Removal for Dual-Focused Images: Methods and Results

   Xin Li, Ye-Ying Jin, Xin Jin, Zongwei Wu +134 more

   20252025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)36 citations

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4. NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Robust AI-Generated Image Detection in the Wild

   A. Gushchin, Khaled Abud, E. Shumitskaya, Artem Filippov +50 more

   2026arXiv.org31 citations

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5. The Eleventh NTIRE 2026 Efficient Super-Resolution Challenge Report

   Bin Ren, Hang Guo, Y. Shu, Jia-Qi Ma +59 more

   2026arXiv.org28 citations

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6. NTIRE 2025 Ambient Lighting Normalization Challenge Report

   Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu, Tim Seizinger, Zhu-Yun Zhou, Zong-Wei Wu +52 more

   20252025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)28 citations

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7. NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Video Quality Enhancement for Video Conferencing: Datasets, Methods and Results

   Varun Jain, Zong-Sheng Wu, Quan Zou, L. Florentin +19 more

   20252025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)27 citations Open access

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8. Robust Deepfake Detection, NTIRE 2026 Challenge: Report

   Benedikt Hopf, R. Timofte, Chen-Fan Qu, Junchi Li +53 more

   2026arXiv.org26 citations

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9. Low Light Image Enhancement Challenge at NTIRE 2026

   G. Ciubotariu, A. SharifSM, Abdur Rehman, Fayaz Ali Dharejo +89 more

   2026arXiv.org25 citations

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10. The First Challenge on Remote Sensing Infrared Image Super-Resolution at NTIRE 2026: Benchmark Results and Method Overview

    Kai Liu, Hao Yue, Ze-Yu Lin, Zheng Chen +64 more

    2026arXiv.org25 citations

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11. TIRE 2025 challenge on Text to Image Generation Model Quality Assessment

    Shu-Hao Han, Hao-Tian Fan, Fang-Yuan Kong, Wen-Jie Liao +111 more

    20252025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)25 citations

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12. The Fourth Challenge on Image Super-Resolution (⨉4) at NTIRE 2026: Benchmark Results and Method Overview

    Zheng Chen, Kai Liu, Jingkai Wang, Xiang-Long Yan +149 more

    2026arXiv.org24 citations

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13. NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Real-World Face Restoration: Methods and Results

    Zheng Chen, Jingkai Wang, Kai Liu, Jue Gong +50 more

    20252025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)24 citations

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14. NTIRE 2025 Challenge on UGC Video Enhancement: Methods and Results

    Nikolay Safonov, A. Bryncev, Andrey Moskalenko, D. Kulikov +27 more

    20252025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)24 citations Open access

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15. NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Video Saliency Prediction: Methods and Results

    Andrey Moskalenko, A. Bryncev, Ivan Kosmynin, K. Shilovskaya +39 more

    2026arXiv.org23 citations

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16. NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Image Super-Resolution ($\times 4$): Methods and Results

    Zheng Chen, Kai Liu, Jue Gong, Jingkai Wang +107 more

    20252025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)23 citations Open access

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17. NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Night Photography Rendering

    Egor I. Ershov, S. Korchagin, Aleksei Khalin, Artyom Panshin +48 more

    20252025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)23 citations

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18. NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Short-form UGC Video Restoration in the Wild with Generative Models: Datasets, Methods and Results

    Xin Li, Jiachao Gong, Xi-Jun Wang, Shiyao Xiong +74 more

    2026arXiv.org22 citations

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19. NTIRE 2026 The 3rd Restore Any Image Model (RAIM) Challenge: Professional Image Quality Assessment (Track 1)

    Guan-Yi Qin, Jiejing Liang, Bingbing Zhang, Lishen Qu +49 more

    2026arXiv.org22 citations

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20. The Third Challenge on Image Denoising at NTIRE 2026: Methods and Results

    Lei Sun, Hangyu Guo, Bin Ren, Shaolin Su +5 more

    2026arXiv.org21 citations

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21. The Second Challenge on Cross-Domain Few-Shot Object Detection at NTIRE 2026: Methods and Results

    Xingyu Qiu, Yuqian Fu, J. Geng, Bin Ren +69 more

    2026arXiv.org21 citations

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22. NTIRE 2026 The Second Challenge on Day and Night Raindrop Removal for Dual-Focused Images: Methods and Results

    Xin Li, Ye-Ying Jin, Su-Hang Yao, Bei-Bei Lin +94 more

    2026arXiv.org21 citations

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23. NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Bitstream-Corrupted Video Restoration: Methods and Results

    Wenbin Zou, Tian-Yi Liu, Ke-Jun Wu, Hui-Ping Zhuang +36 more

    2026arXiv.org20 citations

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24. LEMUR 2: Unlocking Neural Network Diversity for AI

    Tolgay Atinc Uzun, Waleed Khalid, Saif U. Din, Sai Revanth Mulukuledu +16 more

    2026arXiv.org20 citations

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25. NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Single Image Reflection Removal in the Wild: Datasets, Results, and Methods

    Jie Cai, Kang Yang, Zhiyuan Li, Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu +49 more

    2026arXiv.org20 citations

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26. NTIRE 2026 The 3rd Restore Any Image Model (RAIM) Challenge: Multi-Exposure Image Fusion in Dynamic Scenes (Track 2)

    Lishen Qu, Yao Liu, Jiejing Liang, Huimin Zeng +31 more

    2026arXiv.org20 citations

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27. The Second Challenge on Real-World Face Restoration at NTIRE 2026: Methods and Results

    Jingkai Wang, Jue Gong, Zhengyi Chen, Kai Liu +50 more

    2026arXiv.org20 citations

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28. The First Challenge on Mobile Real-World Image Super-Resolution at NTIRE 2026: Benchmark Results and Method Overview

    Jia-Tong Li, Zhengkai Chen, Kai Liu, Jingkai Wang +90 more

    2026arXiv.org20 citations

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29. The First Controllable Bokeh Rendering Challenge at NTIRE 2026

    Tim Seizinger, Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu, Jeffrey Chen, Zhu-Yun Zhou +22 more

    2026arXiv.org20 citations

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30. NTIRE 2026 The 3rd Restore Any Image Model (RAIM) Challenge: AI Flash Portrait (Track 3)

    Yanxin Guan, Shaonan Zhang, Hang Guo, Yawen Wang +54 more

    2026arXiv.org19 citations

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31. NTIRE 2026 Rip Current Detection and Segmentation (RipDetSeg) Challenge Report

    A. Dumitriu, Aakash Ralhan, Florin Miron, F. Tatui +31 more

    2026arXiv.org19 citations

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32. NTIRE 2026 Low-light Enhancement: Twilight Cowboy Challenge

    Aleksei Khalin, Egor I. Ershov, Artyom Panshin, S. Korchagin +45 more

    202619 citations

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33. Bokehlicious: Photorealistic Bokeh Rendering with Controllable Apertures

    Tim Seizinger, Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu, Marcos V. Conde, Zong-Wei Wu +1 more

    2025IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision16 citations

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34. VIST-GPT: Ushering in the Era of Visual Storytelling with LLMs?

    M. Gado, Towhid Taliee, M. Memon, Dmitry Ignatov +1 more

    2025arXiv.org16 citations

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35. AugmentGest: Can Random Data Cropping Augmentation Boost Gesture Recognition Performance?

    Nada Aboudeshish, Dmitry Ignatov, R. Timofte

    2025arXiv.org16 citations

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36. Learned Smartphone Isp on Mobile Gpus, Mobile Ai 2025 Challenge: Report

    A. Ignatov, Georgy Perevozchikov, R. Timofte, Cheng Li +30 more

    20252025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)16 citations

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37. e5-omni: Explicit Cross-modal Alignment for Omni-modal Embeddings

    Hao-Nan Chen, Sicheng Gao, R. Timofte, Tetsuya Sakai +1 more

    2026Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics15 citations

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38. Calibration-Free Raw Image Denoising via Fine-Grained Noise Estimation

    Yun-Hao Zou, Ying Fu, Yu-Lun Zhang, Tao Zhang +2 more

    2025IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence15 citations

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39. From Memorization to Creativity: LLM as a Designer of Novel Neural-Architectures

    Waleed Khalid, Dmitry Ignatov, R. Timofte

    2026arXiv.org14 citations

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40. Resource-Efficient Iterative LLM-Based NAS with Feedback Memory

    Xiao-Jie Gu, D. Ignatov, R. Timofte

    2026arXiv.org13 citations

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41. AIM 2025 challenge on Inverse Tone Mapping Report: Methods and Results

    Chao Wang, Francesco Banterle, Bin Ren, R. Timofte +23 more

    20252025 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW)13 citations Open access

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42. From Brute Force to Semantic Insight: Performance-Guided Data Transformation Design with LLMs

    Usha Shrestha, Dmitry Ignatov, R. Timofte

    2026arXiv.org12 citations

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43. SF-YOLO: A Novel YOLO Framework for Small Object Detection in Aerial Scenes

    Meng Sun, Le Wang, Wangyu Jiang, Fayaz Ali Dharejo +2 more

    2025IET Image Processing12 citations Open access

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44. Closed-Loop LLM Discovery of Non-Standard Channel Priors in Vision Models

    Tolgay Atinc Uzun, Dmitry Ignatov, R. Timofte

    2026International Conference on Pattern Recognition11 citations

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45. NTIRE 2026 3D Restoration and Reconstruction in Real-world Adverse Conditions: RealX3D Challenge Results

    Shuhong Liu, Chenyu Bao, Ziteng Cui, Xuangeng Chu +102 more

    2026arXiv.org11 citations

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46. Efficient Real-World Deblurring Using Single Images: AIM 2025 Challenge Report

    Daniel Feijoo, Paula Garrido-Mellado, Marcos V. Conde, Jaesung Rim +3 more

    20252025 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW)11 citations Open access

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47. Illuminating Darkness: Learning to Enhance Low-light Images In-the-Wild

    S. M. A. Sharif, Abdur Rehman, Zain Ul Abidin, Fayaz Ali Dharejo +2 more

    2025IEEE Workshop/Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision8 citations Open access

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48. MobileAgeNet: Lightweight Facial Age Estimation for Mobile Deployment

    Aruna Kumar, Aswathy Baiju, R. Timofte, Dmitry Ignatov

    2026arXiv.org7 citations

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49. Real Image Denoising with Knowledge Distillation for High-Performance Mobile NPUs

    Faraz Kayani, Sarmad Kayani, Asaduddin Ahmed, R. Timofte +1 more

    2026arXiv.org7 citations

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50. Delta-Based Neural Architecture Search: LLM Fine-Tuning via Code Diffs

    Santosh Adhikari, R. Timofte, Dmitry Ignatov

    2026arXiv.org5 citations

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