NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Night Photography Rendering

Ershov, Egor; Korchagin, Sergey; Khalin, Alexei; Panshin, Artyom; Terekhin, Arseniy; Zaychenkova, Ekaterina; Lobarev, Georgiy; Plokhotnyuk, Vsevolod; Abramov, Denis; Zhdanov, Elisey; Dorogova, Sofia; Mamedov, Yasin; Banic, Nikola; Perevozchikov, Georgii; Timofte, Radu; Zhang, Lize; Zhang, Yuqian; Liu, Shuai; Feng, Chaoyu; Wang, Luyang; Huang, Yibin; Shao, Guangqi; Wang, Xiaotao; Lei, Lei; Pan, Sishun; Zhong, Zhiqiang; Yang, Yang; Ali, Anas M.; Aloqayli, Hamad; Benjdira, Bilel; Boulila, Wadii; Xiaoyang, Ma; Zijun, Gao; Leyi, Xing; He, Zongqi; Zuo, Yushen; Xiao, Zhe; Chan, Kin-Chung; Li, Hanmin; Xiao, Jun; Lam, Kin-Man; Wu, Yunpeng; Manzura, Dmitrij; Storonkin, Daniil; Guo, Weixin; Xu, Kele; Xu, Qisheng; Gao, Zijian; Wan, Tianjiao; Vampilov, Buda; Kinli, Furkan; Kirac, Furkan

Egor Ershov, Sergey Korchagin, Alexei Khalin, Artyom Panshin, Arseniy Terekhin, Ekaterina Zaychenkova, Georgiy Lobarev, Vsevolod Plokhotnyuk, Denis Abramov, Elisey Zhdanov, Sofia Dorogova, Yasin Mamedov, Nikola Banic, Georgii Perevozchikov, Radu Timofte, Lize Zhang, Yuqian Zhang, Shuai Liu, Chaoyu Feng, Luyang Wang, Yibin Huang, Guangqi Shao, Xiaotao Wang, Lei Lei, Sishun Pan, Zhiqiang Zhong, Yang Yang, Anas M. Ali, Hamad Aloqayli, Bilel Benjdira, Wadii Boulila, Ma Xiaoyang, Gao Zijun, Xing Leyi, Zongqi He, Yushen Zuo, Zhe Xiao, Kin-Chung Chan, Hanmin Li, Jun Xiao, Kin-Man Lam, Yunpeng Wu, Dmitrij Manzura, Daniil Storonkin, Weixin Guo, Kele Xu, Qisheng Xu, Zijian Gao, Tianjiao Wan, Buda Vampilov, Furkan Kinli, Furkan Kirac; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2025, pp. 1514-1524

Abstract

This paper presents a review of the NTIRE 2025 challenge on night photography rendering. The goal of the challenge was to find solutions that process raw smartphone images taken in nighttime conditions, producing output images that replicate the pipeline of a professional camera. Unlike the previous year's competition, this year a unique imaging setup was introduced: each scene was captured both by a smartphone and a professional camera with the help of a beam-splitter cube. There were two nominations: best objective quality and mean opinion score-based quality. To evaluate the objective score, the SSIM and PSNR metrics were utilized. To evaluate the MOS-based quality, a sufficient number of viewers were asked to assess the similarity of the proposed solutions to the ground truth image taken by the professional camera. The top ranking participants' solutions effectively represent the state-of-the-art in nighttime photography rendering. More results can be found at https://nightimaging.org.

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@InProceedings{Ershov_2025_CVPR, author = {Ershov, Egor and Korchagin, Sergey and Khalin, Alexei and Panshin, Artyom and Terekhin, Arseniy and Zaychenkova, Ekaterina and Lobarev, Georgiy and Plokhotnyuk, Vsevolod and Abramov, Denis and Zhdanov, Elisey and Dorogova, Sofia and Mamedov, Yasin and Banic, Nikola and Perevozchikov, Georgii and Timofte, Radu and Zhang, Lize and Zhang, Yuqian and Liu, Shuai and Feng, Chaoyu and Wang, Luyang and Huang, Yibin and Shao, Guangqi and Wang, Xiaotao and Lei, Lei and Pan, Sishun and Zhong, Zhiqiang and Yang, Yang and Ali, Anas M. and Aloqayli, Hamad and Benjdira, Bilel and Boulila, Wadii and Xiaoyang, Ma and Zijun, Gao and Leyi, Xing and He, Zongqi and Zuo, Yushen and Xiao, Zhe and Chan, Kin-Chung and Li, Hanmin and Xiao, Jun and Lam, Kin-Man and Wu, Yunpeng and Manzura, Dmitrij and Storonkin, Daniil and Guo, Weixin and Xu, Kele and Xu, Qisheng and Gao, Zijian and Wan, Tianjiao and Vampilov, Buda and Kinli, Furkan and Kirac, Furkan}, title = {NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Night Photography Rendering}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2025}, pages = {1514-1524} }