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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS<br></div><div><br></div><div>
<span class="gmail-m_-141210767985397208gmail-il">PIRM</span>: Perceptual Image Restoration and Manipulation workshop and
challenges on image super-resolution, mobile photo enhancement and
spectral reconstruction
<br>in conjunction with ECCV 2018,
Munich, Germany
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<br>Webpage: <a href="https://www.pirm2018.org/" target="_blank">https://www.pirm2018.org/</a>
<br>Contact: <a href="mailto:organizers@pirm2018.org" target="_blank">organizers@pirm2018.org</a>
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<br>SCOPE
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<br>A key goal in image restoration, manipulation and generation, is to
produce images that are visually appealing to human observers. In recent
years, there has been great interest as well as significant progress in
perceptually-aware computer vision algorithms. However, many works have
observed a fundamental disagreement between this recent leap in
performance, as evaluated by human observers, and the objective
assessment of these methods by common evaluation metrics (e.g. PSNR,
SSIM). This workshop will revolve around two main themes: (i) How to
design algorithms which satisfy human observers, and (ii) How to
evaluate the perceptual quality of such algorithms.
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<br>CHALLENGES
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<br>The <span class="gmail-m_-141210767985397208gmail-il">PIRM</span> challenges will promote perceptual image restoration.
State-of-the-art methods in terms of perceptual quality (e.g. SRGAN) are
rated poorly by "simple" distortion measures such as PSNR and SSIM.
Therefore, in contrast to previous challenges, the evaluation and
ranking will be done in a perceptual-quality aware manner based on [Blau
and Michaeli, CVPR'18]. This unified approach quantifies the accuracy
and perceptual quality of algorithms jointly, and will enable
perceptual-driven methods to compete alongside algorithms that target
PSNR maximization.
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<br>(1) <span class="gmail-m_-141210767985397208gmail-il">PIRM</span> CHALLENGE on PERCEPTUAL SUPER RESOLUTION
<br><a href="https://www.pirm2018.org/PIRM-SR.html" target="_blank">https://www.pirm2018.org/<span class="gmail-m_-141210767985397208gmail-il">PIRM</span>-<wbr>SR.html</a>
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<br>(2) <span class="gmail-m_-141210767985397208gmail-il">PIRM</span> CHALLENGE on MOBILE PHOTO ENHANCEMENT
<br><a href="http://ai-benchmark.com/challenge.html" target="_blank">http://ai-benchmark.com/challe<wbr>nge.html</a>
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<br>(3) <span class="gmail-m_-141210767985397208gmail-il">PIRM</span> CHALLENGE on SPECTRAL RECONSTRUCTION
<br><a href="http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/%7Earobkell/PIRM2018/www/PIRM-HS-SR.html" target="_blank">http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~<wbr>arobkell/PIRM2018/www/<span class="gmail-m_-141210767985397208gmail-il">PIRM</span>-HS-<wbr>SR.html</a>
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<br>CALL FOR PAPERS
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<br>Challenge participants may submit papers for publication at <span class="gmail-m_-141210767985397208gmail-il">PIRM</span>
2018 workshop and also with the ECCV 2018 Workshop proceedings. The
papers should comply with the ECCV 2018 guidelines. Papers will be
accepted based on: (i) academic quality, and (ii) challenge ranking.
<br>The submission site will be made available soon.
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<br>CALL FOR POSTERS
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<br>A poster session will be held at the workshop. We invite submissions
of posters presenting work on perceptual-quality driven algorithms,
methods for evaluating perceptual quality, or any other related topic.
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<br>To submit your poster, please send an extended abstract of 2-3 pages
(ECCV 2018 paper template) by email to <a href="mailto:posters@pirm2018.org" target="_blank">posters@pirm2018.org</a>. The email
must include the poster title, authors, affiliations, and main contact
email. Submission deadline is July 29th.
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<br>Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organizers. Accepted
posters will be presented at the workshop. Note that accepted abstracts
will not appear in the ECCV workshop proceedings.
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<br>ORGANIZERS
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<br>Lihi Zelnik-Manor (Technion, Israel)
<br>Tomer Michaeli (Technion, Israel)
<br>Radu Timofte (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
<br>Roey Mechrez (Technion, Israel)
<br>Yochai Blau (Technion, Israel)
<br>Andrey Ignatov (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
<br>Antonio Robles-Kelly (Australian National University and Data61-CSIRO)
<br>Mehrdad Shoeiby (Data61-CSIRO)
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<br>INVITED TALKS
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<br>Alexei A. Efros (UC Berkeley)
<br>Eli Shechtman (Adobe Research)
<br>Tomer Michaeli (Technion)
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<br>IMPORTANT DATES
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<br>May 1st Validation data released
<br>July 18th Test data released
<br>July 25th Final results submission deadline
<br>July 29th Poster submission deadline
<br>August 1st Challenge results released to participants / Poster decisions released
<br>August 22nd Paper submission deadline (optional for challenge participants only)
<br>September 5th Notification of accepted papers
<br>September 14th <span class="gmail-m_-141210767985397208gmail-il">PIRM</span> 2018 Workshop
<br>TBD Camera ready deadline
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</div><div><br></div><br>Webpage: <a href="https://www.pirm2018.org/" target="_blank">https://www.pirm2018.org/</a>
<br>Contact: <a href="mailto:organizers@pirm2018.org" target="_blank">organizers@pirm2018.org</a></div></div>