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NTIRE 2021 Challenge on Burst Super-Resolution: Methods and Results

arXiv 2106.03839 ↗First posted 7 Jun 2021cs.CVcited by 22

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Abstract (arXiv)

This paper reviews the NTIRE2021 challenge on burst super-resolution. Given a RAW noisy burst as input, the task in the challenge was to generate a clean RGB image with 4 times higher resolution. The challenge contained two tracks; Track 1 evaluating on synthetically generated data, and Track 2 using real-world bursts from mobile camera. In the final testing phase, 6 teams submitted results using a diverse set of solutions. The top-performing methods set a new state-of-the-art for the burst super-resolution task.

Key facts. Cited by 22 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 42 of its 66 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 7 Jun 2021.

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  1. 2022BSRT: Improving Burst Super-Resolution with Swin Transformer and Flow-Guided Deformable Alignmentcited by 32
  2. 2023Burstormer: Burst Image Restoration and Enhancement Transformercited by 32
  3. 2022NTIRE 2022 Challenge on Super-Resolution and Quality Enhancement of Compressed Video: Dataset, Methods and Resultscited by 20
  4. 2022AIM 2022 Challenge on Super-Resolution of Compressed Image and Video: Dataset, Methods and Resultscited by 20
  5. 2022Flexible Neural Image Compression via Code Editingcited by 19
  6. 2021Neural Image Representations for Multi-Image Fusion and Layer Separationcited by 18
  7. 2025NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Efficient Burst HDR and Restoration: Datasets, Methods, and Resultscited by 14
  8. 2022MuS2: A Real-World Benchmark for Sentinel-2 Multi-Image Super-Resolutioncited by 13
  9. 2022Reversed Image Signal Processing and RAW Reconstruction. AIM 2022 Challenge Reportcited by 11
  10. 2023Gated Multi-Resolution Transfer Network for Burst Restoration and Enhancementcited by 11
  11. 2021NTIRE 2021 Multi-modal Aerial View Object Classification Challengecited by 7
  12. 2023Joint Learning of Blind Super-Resolution and Crack Segmentation for Realistic Degraded Imagescited by 7
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  1. 2024BurstM: Deep Burst Multi-scale SR using Fourier Space with Optical Flowcited by 7
  2. 2022Fast Nearest Convolution for Real-Time Efficient Image Super-Resolutioncited by 6
  3. 2021Kernel-aware Burst Blind Super-Resolutioncited by 5
  4. 2022Conformer and Blind Noisy Students for Improved Image Quality Assessmentcited by 5
  5. 2023RBSR: Efficient and Flexible Recurrent Network for Burst Super-Resolutioncited by 5
  6. 2024Burst Super-Resolution with Diffusion Models for Improving Perceptual Qualitycited by 3
  7. 2024Improving Bracket Image Restoration and Enhancement with Flow-guided Alignment and Enhanced Feature Aggregationcited by 2
  8. 2025Efficient Burst Super-Resolution with One-step Diffusioncited by 2
  9. 2021RBSRICNN: Raw Burst Super-Resolution through Iterative Convolutional Neural Networkcited by 1
  10. 2025Feature Alignment with Equivariant Convolutions for Burst Image Super-Resolutioncited by 0