<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span class="gmail-m_-1255965325173825776gmail-m_6936151042752791574gmail-m_5552105694281904806gmail-m_408419128918831100gmail-m_1948246666769576665gmail-m_2358868591110292323gmail-m_1915704743853826484gmail-m_-2402332150115530072gmail-im">Apologies for cross-posting<br>*******************************</span><br><br><span class="gmail-il">CALL</span> FOR <span class="gmail-il">PAPERS</span> & <span class="gmail-il">CALL</span> FOR PARTICIPANTS IN 11 COMPETITIONS<br></div><div><br><span class="gmail-il">NTIRE</span>: <span class="gmail-m_-1255965325173825776gmail-m_6936151042752791574gmail-m_5552105694281904806gmail-il">4th New</span> <span class="gmail-m_-1255965325173825776gmail-m_6936151042752791574gmail-m_5552105694281904806gmail-il">Trends</span> <span class="gmail-m_-1255965325173825776gmail-m_6936151042752791574gmail-m_5552105694281904806gmail-il">in</span> <span class="gmail-m_-1255965325173825776gmail-m_6936151042752791574gmail-m_5552105694281904806gmail-il">Image</span> <span class="gmail-m_-1255965325173825776gmail-m_6936151042752791574gmail-m_5552105694281904806gmail-il">Restoration</span> <span class="gmail-m_-1255965325173825776gmail-m_6936151042752791574gmail-m_5552105694281904806gmail-il">and</span> <span class="gmail-m_-1255965325173825776gmail-m_6936151042752791574gmail-m_5552105694281904806gmail-il">Enhancement</span> <span class="gmail-m_-1255965325173825776gmail-m_6936151042752791574gmail-m_5552105694281904806gmail-il">workshop</span> <span class="gmail-m_-1255965325173825776gmail-m_6936151042752791574gmail-m_5552105694281904806gmail-il">and</span> challenges <span class="gmail-m_-1255965325173825776gmail-m_6936151042752791574gmail-m_5552105694281904806gmail-il">on</span> super-resolution, dehazing, enhancement, colorization, and deblurring<br><span class="gmail-m_-1255965325173825776gmail-m_6936151042752791574gmail-m_5552105694281904806gmail-il">In</span> conjunction with <span class="gmail-m_-1255965325173825776gmail-m_6936151042752791574gmail-m_5552105694281904806gmail-il">CVPR</span> <span class="gmail-m_-1255965325173825776gmail-m_6936151042752791574gmail-m_5552105694281904806gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">2019</span></span>, June 16, Long Beach, USA.<br>
<br>Website: <a href="http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/ntire19/">http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/ntire19/</a><br>Contact: <a href="mailto:radu.timofte@vision.ee.ethz.ch" target="_blank">radu.timofte@vision.ee.ethz.ch</a></div><div><br></div><div>TOPICS<br></div><div><div class="gmail-col-sm-12"><p>Papers addressing topics related to image restoration and enhancement are invited. The topics include, but are not limited to:</p>
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<ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li>Image/video inpainting</li><li>Image/video deblurring</li><li>Image/video denoising</li><li>Image/video upsampling and super-resolution</li><li>Image/video filtering</li><li>Image/video dehazing</li><li>Demosaicing</li><li>Image/video compression</li><li>Artifact removal</li><li>Image/video enhancement: brightening, color adjustment, sharpening, etc.</li><li>Style transfer</li><li>Image/video generation and hallucination</li><li>Image/video quality assessment</li><li>Hyperspectral imaging</li><li>Underwater imaging</li><li>Aerial and satellite imaging</li><li>Methods robust to changing weather conditions / adverse outdoor conditions</li><li>Perceptual enhancement</li><li>Studies and applications of the above.</li></ul><div><br></div><div>SUBMISSION</div><div><br></div><div>A <span class="gmail-il">paper</span> submission has to be in English, in pdf format, and at most 8
pages (excluding references) in CVPR style. <br><a href="http://cvpr2019.thecvf.com/submission/main_conference/author_guidelines">http://cvpr2019.thecvf.com/submission/main_conference/author_guidelines</a>
<br>The review process is double blind. <br>
</div><div></div><div>Accepted and presented <span class="gmail-il">papers</span> will be published after the conference
in the CVPR Workshops Proceedings on by IEEE (<a href="http://www.ieee.org" target="_blank">http://www.ieee.org</a>) and
Computer Vision Foundation (<a href="http://www.cv-foundation.org" target="_blank">www.cv-foundation.org</a>).
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<br>Author Kit: <a href="http://cvpr2019.thecvf.com/files/cvpr2019AuthorKit.zip">http://cvpr2019.thecvf.com/files/cvpr2019AuthorKit.zip</a> <br></div><div>Submission site: <a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NTIRE2019">https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NTIRE2019</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail-m_-1255965325173825776gmail-m_6936151042752791574gmail-m_5552105694281904806gmail-il">WORKSHOP</span> DATES<br><br><div style="margin-left:40px">
● Submission Deadline: March 06, <span class="gmail-il">2019</span>
<br>● Decisions: March 29, <span class="gmail-il">2019</span><br>● Camera Ready Deadline: April 07, <span class="gmail-il">2019</span><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>IMAGE CHALLENGES (<i>started!</i>)<br></div><ol><li><b>Dehazing</b></li><li><b>Denoising</b>: Track 1 rawRGB</li><li><b>Denoising</b>: Track 2 sRGB</li><li><b>Super-Resolution</b></li><li><b>Enhancement</b></li><li><b>Colorization</b>: Track 1 no guidance</li><li><b>Colorization</b>: Track 2 with guidance</li></ol><div><br></div><div>VIDEO CHALLENGES (<i>started!</i>)<br></div><ol><li><b>Deblurring</b>: Track 1 clean</li><li><b>Deblurring</b>: Track 2 compression artifacts</li><li><b>Super-Resolution</b>: Track 1 clean</li><li><b>Super-Resolution:</b> Track 2 Blur</li></ol><div>To learn more about the challenges, to participate <span class="gmail-m_-1255965325173825776gmail-m_6936151042752791574gmail-m_5552105694281904806gmail-il">in</span> the challenges,
<span class="gmail-m_-1255965325173825776gmail-m_6936151042752791574gmail-m_5552105694281904806gmail-il">and</span> to access the data everybody is invited to check the <span class="gmail-il">NTIRE</span> webpage:<br><a href="http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/ntire19/">http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/ntire19/</a></div><div><br></div><div>CHALLENGES DATES<br><div>
<br><div style="margin-left:40px">● Release of train data: January 10, <span class="gmail-m_-1255965325173825776gmail-m_6936151042752791574gmail-m_5552105694281904806gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">2019</span></span><br>● <b>Competitions end: March 06, <span class="gmail-m_-1255965325173825776gmail-m_6936151042752791574gmail-m_5552105694281904806gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">2019</span></span></b></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>ORGANIZERS<br>
<br><div style="margin-left:40px">● Radu Timofte, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (radu.timofte [at] <a href="http://vision.ee.ethz.ch">vision.ee.ethz.ch</a>) <br></div></div><div style="margin-left:40px">● Shuhang Gu, ETH Zurich, Switzerland</div><div style="margin-left:40px">● Ming-Hsuan Yang, University of California at Merced, US / Google AI<br>● Lei Zhang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University<br>● Luc Van Gool, KU Leuven, Belgium and ETH Zurich, Switzerland<br>● Cosmin Ancuti, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium<br>● Codruta O. Ancuti, University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania<br>● Kyoung Mu Lee, Seoul National University, Korea</div><div style="margin-left:40px"></div><div style="margin-left:40px">● Michael S. Brown, York University, Canada</div><div style="margin-left:40px">● Eli Shechtman, Adobe Research</div><div style="margin-left:40px">● Ming-Yu Liu, NVIDIA Research</div><div style="margin-left:40px">● Zhiwu Huang, ETH Zurich, Switzerland</div><div style="margin-left:40px">● Jianrui Cai, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University</div><div style="margin-left:40px">● Seungjun Nah, Seoul National University, Korea</div><div style="margin-left:40px">● Richard Zhang, Adobe Research</div><div style="margin-left:40px">● Abdelrahman Abdelhamed, York University, Canada</div><div><br></div><div><div>SPONSORS (to be updated)<br></div><div><br><div style="margin-left:40px"></div></div><div style="margin-left:40px">Samsung<br></div><div style="margin-left:40px">Huawei</div><div style="margin-left:40px">Amazon<br></div><div style="margin-left:40px"></div><div style="margin-left:40px">Google</div><div style="margin-left:40px">NVIDIA</div><div style="margin-left:40px">SenseTime</div><div style="margin-left:40px">Alibaba</div><div style="margin-left:40px"><br></div>Website: <a href="http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/ntire19/">http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/ntire19/</a><br>Contact: <a href="mailto:radu.timofte@vision.ee.ethz.ch" target="_blank">radu.timofte@vision.ee.ethz.ch</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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