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

arXiv 2505.18988 ↗First posted 25 May 2025cs.CVcited by 9

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Abstract (arXiv)

This paper presents a comprehensive review of the 1st Challenge on Video Quality Enhancement for Video Conferencing held at the NTIRE workshop at CVPR 2025, and highlights the problem statement, datasets, proposed solutions, and results. The aim of this challenge was to design a Video Quality Enhancement (VQE) model to enhance video quality in video conferencing scenarios by (a) improving lighting, (b) enhancing colors, (c) reducing noise, and (d) enhancing sharpness - giving a professional studio-like effect. Participants were given a differentiable Video Quality Assessment (VQA) model, training, and test videos. A total of 91 participants registered for the challenge. We received 10 valid submissions that were evaluated in a crowdsourced framework.

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  2. 2025NTIRE 2025 XGC Quality Assessment Challenge: Methods and Resultscited by 6
  3. 2025NTIRE 2025 the 2nd Restore Any Image Model (RAIM) in the Wild Challengecited by 5
  4. 2025RAW Image Reconstruction from RGB on Smartphones. NTIRE 2025 Challenge Reportcited by 4
  5. 2025NTIRE 2025 Challenge on HR Depth from Images of Specular and Transparent Surfacescited by 3
  6. 2025DeDelayed: Deleting Remote Inference Delay via On-Device Correctioncited by 2
  7. 2025NTIRE 2025 Image Shadow Removal Challenge Reportcited by 1
  8. 2025NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Low Light Image Enhancement: Methods and Resultscited by 1
  9. 2026DST-Net: A Dual-Stream Transformer with Illumination-Independent Feature Guidance and Multi-Scale Spatial Convolution for Low-Light Image Enhancementcited by 0