The Ninth NTIRE 2024 Efficient Super-Resolution Challenge Report
Bin Ren, Yawei Li, Nancy Mehta, Radu Timofte, Hongyuan Yu, Cheng Wan, Yuxin Hong, Bingnan Han, Zhuoyuan Wu, Yajun Zou, Yuqing Liu, Jizhe Li, Keji He, Chao Fan, H. Zhang, Xiaolin Zhang, Xuanwu Yin, Kunlong Zuo, Bohao Liao, Peizhe Xia, Long Peng, Zhibo Du, Xin Di, Wangkai Li, Yang Wang, Wei Zhai, Renjing Pei, Jiaming Guo, Songcen Xu, Yang Cao, Zheng-Jun Zha, Yan Wang, Yi Liu, Qing Wang, Gang Zhang, Liou Zhang, Shijie Zhao, Long Sun, Jinshan Pan, Jiangxin Dong, Jinhui Tang, Xin Liu, Min Yan, Qian Wang, Menghan Zhou, Yiqiang Yan, Yixuan Liu, Wensong Chan, Dehua Tang, Dong Zhou, Li Wang, Lu Tian, Barsoum Emad, Bohan Jia, Junbo Qiao, Yunshuai Zhou, Yun Zhang, Wei Li, Shaohui Lin, Shenglong Zhou, Bin-Bin Chen, Jincheng Liao, Suiyi Zhao, Zhao Zhang, Bo Wang, Yan Luo, Yanyan Wei, Feng Li, Mingshen Wang, Yawei Li, Jinhan Guan, Dehua Hu, Jiawei Yu, Qisheng Xu, Tao Sun, Long Lan, Kele Xu, Xin Lin, Jingtong Yue, Lehan Yang, Shiyi Du, Lu Qi, Chao Ren, Zeyu Han, Yuhan Wang, Chaolin Chen, Haobo Li, Mingjun Zheng, Zhongbao Yang, Lianhong Song, Xingzhuo Yan, Minghan Fu, Jingyi Zhang, Baiang Li, Qi Zhu, Xiaogang Xu, Dan Guo, Chunle Guo, Jiadi Chen, Huanhuan Long
Abstract
This paper provides a comprehensive review of the NTIRE 2024 challenge, focusing on efficient single-image super-resolution (ESR) solutions and their outcomes. The task of this challenge is to super-resolve an input image with a magnification factor of ×4 based on pairs of low and corresponding high-resolution images. The primary objective is to develop networks that optimize various aspects such as runtime, parameters, and FLOPs, while still maintaining a peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) of approximately 26.90 dB on the DIV2K LSDIR valid dataset and 26.99 dB on the DIV2K LSDIR test dataset. In addition, this challenge has 4 tracks including the main track (overall performance), sub-track 1 (runtime), sub-track 2 (FLOPs), and sub-track 3 (parameters). In the main track, all three metrics (i.e., runtime, FLOPs, and parameter count) were considered. The ranking of the main track is calculated based on a weighted sum-up of the scores of all other sub-tracks. In sub-track 1, the practical runtime performance of the submissions was evaluated, and the corresponding score was used to determine the ranking. In sub-track 2, the number of FLOPs was considered. The score calculated based on the corresponding FLOPs was used to determine the ranking. In sub-track 3, the number of parameters was considered. The score calculated based on the corresponding parameters was used to determine the ranking. RLFN is set as the baseline for efficiency measurement. The challenge had 262 registered participants, and 34 teams made valid submissions. They gauge the state-of-the-art in efficient single-image super-resolution. To facilitate the reproducibility of the challenge and enable other researchers to build upon these findings, the code and the pre-trained model of validated solutions are made publicly available at https://github.com/Amazingren/NTIRE2024_ESR/.