IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)
Abstract
This paper reviews the first NTIRE challenge on perceptual image enhancement with the focus on proposed solutions and results. The participating teams were solving a real-world photo enhancement problem, where the goal was to map low-quality photos from the iPhone 3GS device to the same photos captured with Canon 70D DSLR camera. The considered problem embraced a number of computer vision subtasks, such as image denoising, image resolution and sharpness enhancement, image color/contrast/exposure adjustment, etc. The target metric used in this challenge combined fidelity scores (PSNR and SSIM) with solutions’ perceptual results measured in a user study. From above 200 registered participants, 13 teams submitted solutions for the final test phase of the challenge. The proposed solutions significantly improved baseline results, defining the state-of-the-art for practical image enhancement.