<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear Colleagues<br></div><div><br></div><div>We are organizing the first <a href="https://cvlai.net/ntire/2025/" target="_blank">NTIRE</a> Challenge on Video Quality Enhancement for Video Conferencing at CVPR 2025.<br><br>We invite researchers to develop Video Quality Enhancement models that improve lighting, color, sharpness, and reduce noise in video calls – thereby giving a professional studio-like effect. We provide participants with a differentiable Video Quality Assessment model, training and test videos. The participants submit enhanced videos which will be evaluated in our crowdsourced framework.<br><br>Registration is open. Checkout our website for details: <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/ntire-2025-vqe/" target="_blank">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/ntire-2025-vqe/</a><br><br><br>Thank you</div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Cheers</div><div dir="ltr">Yours, &c</div><div dir="ltr">Varun Jain <a href="https://varunj.github.io/" target="_blank"><img src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4xrMXauoDeJF5QB8k352eCSC_tnbbi7ZDc39LgPg5dLW77Eds3BFI7JRje5TUv6xp4dNNF6w6ky_DqspzHwyBa91UEMmALuiya9u0SE_FnTAo4"></a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vjvarunjain" target="_blank"><img src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4wovnUIP1Un2YxT8dDPIkAlmL5Mb6LYePjjfyQAPiZbRYs14AQdFVg-77IGtv1cosuvlEYJmQYbxwxxD7_cf6uL1En8zbUCkSW8N4ibscTVuQU"></a></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><a href="https://500px.com/varun_jain" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank"><img src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4xNaG6fmSE8Z2LaS3APYvxIfaHWh2n0yfFT-qefgzSfZnuFFF1LKLDCK2TiEXuMZm1Ibs7OdxBAUBf8f4z3PgWII-cmqa0w3upuY9bkFCedpl0"></a></div><div dir="ltr">Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>