NTIRE Workshop & Challenges @ CVPR 2026 • Denver, Colorado
Mobile Real-World Image Super-Resolution (×4)
Restore a high-resolution image from a single low-resolution input under unknown real-world degradations — and make it efficient enough for a mobile chipset.
Challenge Overview
This track is part of the NTIRE 2026 Workshop & Challenges co-located with CVPR 2026 in Denver. It targets mobile real-world single-image super-resolution, emphasizing both visual quality and deployment efficiency.
What is NTIRE?
NTIRE (New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement) is a long-running workshop and challenge series promoting real-world datasets, standardized evaluation, and reproducible baselines across academia and industry.
Why mobile real-world SR?
Super-resolution must be more than “sharper” — it must be efficient, memory-friendly, and deployable. This track highlights both perceptual quality and on-device speed (measured on MediaTek Dimensity 8400).
Data & Competition Phases
Where to get the data
All datasets are hosted on the competition platform under the Files section.
Development: Training
Training pairs are provided. Teams train a ×4 SR model under unknown real-world degradations and prepare an efficient inference pipeline.
Development: Validation
Validation inputs are released (inputs only) to help you iterate and compare approaches during the development stage.
Test Phase
Final test inputs are released (inputs only). Participants submit SR results plus reproducible code/executables for official evaluation.
Evaluation
Perception Quality
A composite perceptual score is computed using a weighted combination of six no-reference (NR) quality metrics:
- LPIPS
- DISTS
- NIQE
- ManIQA
- MUSIQ
- CLIP-IQA
Mobile Efficiency
Inference speed is measured under FP16 on a real mobile platform:
- MediaTek Dimensity 8400
- Latency reported as a “Speedup” factor
- Focus: practical deployability and real-time potential
Official Evaluation Setup
Organizers run your code/weights/inference script on:
- 1× NVIDIA A6000 GPU to compute perceptual metrics and the overall score
- MediaTek Dimensity 8400 for on-device speed
Determinism matters. Fix seeds and document every dependency.
Important Dates
Join the Challenge
Competition portal
Register, download data, and submit results on the CodaBench competition page.
Open CodaBenchNTIRE 2026
Learn more about the NTIRE 2026 workshop and other challenges on the official NTIRE website.
Open NTIRE 2026Organizers
Organizer list may be updated.
WeChat Group
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If the QR code expires, please contact the organizers by email.
