3-7.June Denver, US

NTIRE 2026

New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement workshop

and associated challenges

in conjunction with CVPR 2026

Sponsors




Call for papers

Image restoration, enhancement and manipulation are key computer vision tasks, aiming at the restoration of degraded image content, the filling in of missing information, or the needed transformation and/or manipulation to achieve a desired target (with respect to perceptual quality, contents, or performance of apps working on such images). Recent years have witnessed an increased interest from the vision and graphics communities in these fundamental topics of research. Not only has there been a constantly growing flow of related papers, but also substantial progress has been achieved.

Each step forward eases the use of images by people or computers for the fulfillment of further tasks, as image manipulation serves as an important frontend. Not surprisingly then, there is an ever growing range of applications in fields such as surveillance, the automotive industry, electronics, remote sensing, or medical image analysis etc. The emergence and ubiquitous use of mobile and wearable devices offer another fertile ground for additional applications and faster methods.

This workshop aims to provide an overview of the new trends and advances in those areas. Moreover, it will offer an opportunity for academic and industrial attendees to interact and explore collaborations.

This workshop builds upon the success of New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement (NTIRE) editions at: CVPR 2025 , CVPR 2024 , 2023 , 2022 , 2021, 2020 , 2019 , 2018 and 2017 and at ACCV 2016, Advances in Image Manipulation (AIM) workshop at EICCV 2025,ECCV 2024,ECCV 2022,ICCV 2021, ECCV 2020,ICCV 2019, Mobile AI (MAI) workshop at CVPR 2025 , CVPR 2024 , 2023 , 2022 , and 2021 , Vision, Graphics and AI for Streaming (AIS) workshop at CVPR 2025, 2024 , Perceptual Image Restoration and Manipulation (PIRM) workshop at ECCV 2018 , the workshop and Challenge on Learned Image Compression (CLIC) editions at CVPR 2018, CVPR 2019, CVPR 2020, CVPR 2021, CVPR 2022, DCC 2024. Moreover, it relies on the people associated with the PIRM, AIS, CLIC, MAI, AIM, and NTIRE events such as organizers, PC members, distinguished speakers, authors of published papers, challenge participants and winning teams.

Papers addressing topics related to image/video manipulation, restoration and enhancement are invited. The topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Image/video inpainting
  • Image/video deblurring
  • Image/video denoising
  • Image/video upsampling and super-resolution
  • Image/video filtering
  • Image/video de-hazing, de-raining, de-snowing, etc.
  • Demosaicing
  • Image/video compression
  • Removal of artifacts, shadows, glare and reflections, etc.
  • Image/video enhancement: brightening, color adjustment, sharpening, etc.
  • Hyperspectral image restoration, enhancement, manipulation
  • Underwater image restoration, enhancement, manipulation
  • Light field image restoration, enhancement, manipulation
  • Aerial and satellite image restoration, enhancement, manipulation
  • Methods robust to changing weather conditions / adverse outdoor conditions
  • Image/video manipulation on constrained settings/mobile devices
  • Image/video restoration and enhancement on constrained settings/mobile devices
  • Image-to-image translation
  • Video-to-video translation
  • Image/video manipulation
  • Perceptual manipulation
  • Style transfer
  • Image/video generation and hallucination
  • Image/video quality assessment
  • Image/video semantic segmentation
  • Perceptual enhancement
  • Multimodal translation
  • Depth estimation
  • Saliency and gaze estimation
  • Studies and applications of the above.

NTIRE 2026 challenges

One needs to check the corresponding competition page(s) in order to learn more about and to register to access the data and participate in the challenge(s) of interest.

Important dates



Challenges Event Date (always 23:59 PT)
Site online January 13, 2026
Release of train data and validation data January 15, 2026
Validation server online January 30, 2026
Final test data release, validation server closed March 10, 2026
Test phase submission deadline March 17, 2026
Fact sheets, code/executable submission deadline March 17, 2026
Preliminary test results release to the participants March 19, 2026
Paper submission deadline for entries from the challenges March 24, 2026
Workshop Event Date (always 23:59 PT)
Paper submission deadline March 10, 2026
Regular Paper decision notification March 31, 2026
Paper submission deadline (only for methods from NTIRE 2026 challenges and papers reviewed elsewhere!) March 24, 2026
Challenge/Late Paper decision notification March 31, 2026
Camera ready deadline April 10, 2026
Workshop day June ?, 2026

Submit



Instructions and Policies
Format and paper length

A paper submission has to be in English, in pdf format, and at most 8 pages (excluding references) in double column. The paper format must follow the same guidelines as for all CVPR submissions.
https://cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/2026/AuthorGuidelines

Double-blind review policy

The review process is double blind. Authors do not know the names of the chair/reviewers of their papers. Reviewers do not know the names of the authors.

Dual submission policy

Dual submission is not allowed. If a paper is submitted also to CVPR and accepted, the paper cannot be published both at the CVPR and the workshop.

Submission site

https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NTIRE2026

*The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.

Proceedings

Accepted and presented papers will be published after the conference in CVPR Workshops proceedings together with the CVPR2026 main conference papers.

Author Kit

https://github.com/cvpr-org/author-kit/archive/refs/tags/CVPR2026-v1(latex).zip
The author kit provides a LaTeX2e template for paper submissions. Please refer to the kit for detailed formatting instructions.

People



Organizers (TBU)

  • Radu Timofte, University of Wurzburg,
  • Zongwei Wu, University of Wurzburg
  • Florin Vasluianu, University of Wurzburg
  • Marcos V. Conde, University of Wurzburg,




PC Members (TBU)

  • Mahmoud Afifi, Google
  • Timo Aila, NVIDIA
  • Codruta Ancuti, UPT
  • Boaz Arad, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
  • Siavash Arjomand Bigdeli, DTU
  • Michael S. Brown, York University / Samsung AI Center
  • Chia-Ming Cheng, MediaTek
  • Sunghyun Cho, Samsung
  • Marcos V. Conde, University of Wurzburg
  • Chao Dong, SIAT
  • Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL
  • Michael Elad, Technion
  • Paolo Favaro, University of Bern
  • Corneliu Florea, University Politechnica of Bucharest
  • Alessandro Foi, Tampere University of Technology
  • Peter Gehler, Amazon
  • Bastian Goldluecke, University of Konstanz
  • Jinjin Gu, University of Sydney
  • Shuhang Gu, UEST
  • Christine Guillemot, INRIA
  • Chiu Man Ho, OPPO,
  • Hiroto Honda, GO Inc.
  • Andrey Ignatov, ETH Zurich
  • Eddy Ilg, University of Technology Nuremberg
  • Michal Irani, Weizmann Institute, Israel
  • Christian Ledig, University of Bamberg
  • Seungyong Lee, POSTECH
  • Kyoung Mu Lee, Seoul National University
  • Yawei Li, ETH Zurich
  • Stephen Lin, Microsoft Research
  • Chen Change Loy, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Vladimir Lukin, National Aerospace University, Ukraine
  • Vasile Manta, Technical University of Iasi
  • Rafal Mantiuk, University of Cambridge
  • Zibo Meng, OPPO
  • Yusuke Monno, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Vinay P. Namboodiri, University of Bath/li>
  • Sylvain Paris, Adobe
  • Rakesh Ranjan, Meta Reality Labs
  • Wenqi Ren, Sun Yat-Sen University
  • Stefan Roth, TU Darmstadt
  • Aline Roumy, INRIA
  • Yoichi Sato, University of Tokyo
  • Nicu Sebe, University of Trento
  • Eli Shechtman, Creative Intelligence Lab at Adobe Research
  • Gregory Slabaugh, Queen Mary University of London
  • Sabine Süsstrunk, EPFL
  • Masayuki Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Hao Tang, ETH Zurich
  • Jean-Philippe Tarel, G. Eiffel University
  • Qi Tian, Huawei Cloud & AI
  • Radu Timofte, University of Wurzburg
  • George Toderici, Google
  • Luc Van Gool, INSAIT, ETH Zurich, KU Leuven
  • Javier Vazquez-Coral, Autonomous University of Barcelona
  • Longguang Wang, NUDT
  • Yingqian Wang, NUDT
  • Xintao Wang, Tencent
  • Gordon Wetzstein, Stanford University
  • Ming-Hsuan Yang, University of California at Merced & Google
  • Ren Yang, Microsoft Research
  • Kai Zhang, Nanjing University
  • Yulun Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Jun-Yan Zhu, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Wangmeng Zuo, Harbin Institute of Technology

Invited Talks (TBU)



Schedule (TBU)

Join NTIRE 2026 in-person, room ?, Denver.

All the accepted NTIRE workshop papers have in-person poster presentation June ?. A subset of the accepted NTIRE workshop papers have also oral presentation. All the accepted NTIRE workshop papers are published under the book title "2026 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops" by

Computer Vision Foundation Open Access and IEEE Xplore Digital Library