NTIRE 2017 Challenge on Single Image Super-Resolution: Methods and Results

Radu Timofte, Eirikur Agustsson, Luc Van Gool, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Lei Zhang; Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2017, pp. 114-125

Abstract


This paper reviews the first challenge on single image super-resolution (restoration of rich details in an low resolution image) with focus on proposed solutions and results. A new DIVerse 2K resolution image dataset (DIV2K) was employed. The challenge had 6 competitions divided into 2 tracks with 3 magnification factors each. Track 1 employed the standard bicubic downscaling setup, while Track 2 had unknown downscaling operators (blur kernel and decimation) but learnable through low and high res train images. Each competition had 100 registered participants and 20 teams competed in the final testing phase. They gauge the state-of-the-art in single image super-resolution.

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@InProceedings{Timofte_2017_CVPR_Workshops,
author = {Timofte, Radu and Agustsson, Eirikur and Van Gool, Luc and Yang, Ming-Hsuan and Zhang, Lei},
title = {NTIRE 2017 Challenge on Single Image Super-Resolution: Methods and Results},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops},
month = {July},
year = {2017}
}