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NTIRE 2025 Challenge on UGC Video Enhancement: Methods and Results

arXiv 2505.03007 ↗First posted 5 May 2025cs.CVcited by 12

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Abstract (arXiv)

This paper presents an overview of the NTIRE 2025 Challenge on UGC Video Enhancement. The challenge constructed a set of 150 user-generated content videos without reference ground truth, which suffer from real-world degradations such as noise, blur, faded colors, compression artifacts, etc. The goal of the participants was to develop an algorithm capable of improving the visual quality of such videos. Given the widespread use of UGC on short-form video platforms, this task holds substantial practical importance. The evaluation was based on subjective quality assessment in crowdsourcing, obtaining votes from over 8000 assessors. The challenge attracted more than 25 teams submitting solutions, 7 of which passed the final phase with source code verification. The outcomes may provide insights into the state-of-the-art in UGC video enhancement and highlight emerging trends and effective strategies in this evolving research area. All data, including the processed videos and subjective comparison votes and scores, is made publicly available at https://github.com/msu-video-group/NTIRE25_UGC_Video_Enhancement.

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  1. 2025NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Efficient Burst HDR and Restoration: Datasets, Methods, and Resultscited by 14
  2. 2026NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Video Saliency Prediction: Methods and Resultscited by 10
  3. 2025NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Video Quality Enhancement for Video Conferencing: Datasets, Methods and Resultscited by 9
  4. 2025NTIRE 2025 Challenge on RAW Image Restoration and Super-Resolutioncited by 9
  5. 2025NTIRE 2025 challenge on Text to Image Generation Model Quality Assessmentcited by 8
  6. 2025NTIRE 2025 XGC Quality Assessment Challenge: Methods and Resultscited by 6
  7. 2025NTIRE 2025 the 2nd Restore Any Image Model (RAIM) in the Wild Challengecited by 5
  8. 2025RAW Image Reconstruction from RGB on Smartphones. NTIRE 2025 Challenge Reportcited by 4
  9. 2025NTIRE 2025 Challenge on HR Depth from Images of Specular and Transparent Surfacescited by 3
  10. 2025NTIRE 2025 Image Shadow Removal Challenge Reportcited by 1
  11. 2025NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Low Light Image Enhancement: Methods and Resultscited by 1
  12. 2026TailorMind: Towards Preference-Aligned Multimodal Content Generationcited by 0