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NTIRE 2024 Challenge on Image Super-Resolution (x4): Methods and Results

arXiv 2404.09790 ↗First posted 15 Apr 2024cs.CVcited by 40

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This paper reviews the NTIRE 2024 challenge on image super-resolution (×4), highlighting the solutions proposed and the outcomes obtained. The challenge involves generating corresponding high-resolution (HR) images, magnified by a factor of four, from low-resolution (LR) inputs using prior information. The LR images originate from bicubic downsampling degradation. The aim of the challenge is to obtain designs/solutions with the most advanced SR performance, with no constraints on computational resources (e.g., model size and FLOPs) or training data. The track of this challenge assesses performance with the PSNR metric on the DIV2K testing dataset. The competition attracted 199 registrants, with 20 teams submitting valid entries. This collective endeavour not only pushes the boundaries of performance in single-image SR but also offers a comprehensive overview of current trends in this field.

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  1. 2024The Ninth NTIRE 2024 Efficient Super-Resolution Challenge Reportcited by 57
  2. 2024NTIRE 2024 Challenge on Short-form UGC Video Quality Assessment: Methods and Resultscited by 29
  3. 2024NTIRE 2024 Challenge on Low Light Image Enhancement: Methods and Resultscited by 26
  4. 2025The Tenth NTIRE 2025 Efficient Super-Resolution Challenge Reportcited by 25
  5. 2025NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Day and Night Raindrop Removal for Dual-Focused Images: Methods and Resultscited by 22
  6. 2025The Tenth NTIRE 2025 Image Denoising Challenge Reportcited by 21
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  8. 2024MambaCSR: Dual-Interleaved Scanning for Compressed Image Super-Resolution With SSMscited by 14
  9. 2025NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Short-form UGC Video Quality Assessment and Enhancement: Methods and Resultscited by 14
  10. 2025NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Efficient Burst HDR and Restoration: Datasets, Methods, and Resultscited by 14
  11. 2025NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Image Super-Resolution (x4): Methods and Resultscited by 12
  12. 2025NTIRE 2025 Challenge on UGC Video Enhancement: Methods and Resultscited by 12
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  4. 2024NTIRE 2024 Restore Any Image Model (RAIM) in the Wild Challengecited by 9
  5. 2025NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Video Quality Enhancement for Video Conferencing: Datasets, Methods and Resultscited by 9
  6. 2025NTIRE 2025 Challenge on RAW Image Restoration and Super-Resolutioncited by 9
  7. 2025NTIRE 2025 challenge on Text to Image Generation Model Quality Assessmentcited by 8
  8. 2024Deep Portrait Quality Assessment. A NTIRE 2024 Challenge Surveycited by 7
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  10. 2024Deep RAW Image Super-Resolution. A NTIRE 2024 Challenge Surveycited by 6
  11. 2025NTIRE 2025 XGC Quality Assessment Challenge: Methods and Resultscited by 6
  12. 2025NTIRE 2025 the 2nd Restore Any Image Model (RAIM) in the Wild Challengecited by 5
  13. 2024NTIRE 2024 Challenge on Night Photography Renderingcited by 4
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  15. 2024A New Dataset and Framework for Real-World Blurred Images Super-Resolutioncited by 3
  16. 2025NTIRE 2025 Challenge on HR Depth from Images of Specular and Transparent Surfacescited by 3
  17. 2026SAT: Selective Aggregation Transformer for Image Super-Resolutioncited by 2
  18. 2024EnsIR: An Ensemble Algorithm for Image Restoration via Gaussian Mixture Modelscited by 1
  19. 2025HyFusion: Enhanced Reception Field Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Fusioncited by 1
  20. 2025ICME 2025 Grand Challenge on Video Super-Resolution for Video Conferencingcited by 1
  21. 2025NTIRE 2025 Image Shadow Removal Challenge Reportcited by 1
  22. 2025NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Low Light Image Enhancement: Methods and Resultscited by 1
  23. 2026PixelRush: Ultra-Fast, Training-Free High-Resolution Image Generation via One-step Diffusioncited by 1
  24. 2026Tuning Real-World Image Restoration at Inference: A Test-Time Scaling Paradigm for Flow Matching Modelscited by 1
  25. 2024NTIRE 2024 Challenge on Stereo Image Super-Resolution: Methods and Resultscited by 0
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