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Low Light Image Enhancement Challenge at NTIRE 2026

Aashish Negi, Abdur Rehman, Akshay Dudhane, Alexandru Brateanu, Amit Shukla, Ananya N, Anas M. Ali, Ariel Lapid, Bilel Benjdira, Bofei Chen, Bohyung Han, Chang Ye, Cheng Li, Chun-Chuen Hui, Ciprian Orhei, Codruta O. Ancuti, Cosmin Ancuti, Donghun Ryou, Duo Zhang, Fayaz Ali Dharejo, Furkan K{\i}nl{\i}, George Ciubotariu, Guangsheng Tang, Guoyi Xu, Hao Yang, Hardik Sharma, Harini A, Heng Sun, Hongjun Wu, Hon Man Hammond Lee, Idit Diamant, Inju Ha, Jayant Kumar, Jiachen Tu, Jiajia Liu, Jiangning Zhang, Jinao Song, Jing Xu, Jingyi Xu, Jun Chen, Junoh Kang, Kaifan Qiao, Kai Hu, Lai Jiang, Lakshanya K, Leilei Cao, Lin Wang, Liyuan Pan, Long Bao, Mai Xu, Marcos V. Conde, Mohab Kishawy, MoHao Wu, Nikhil Akalwadi, Padmashree Desai, Praful Hambarde, Prateek Shaily, Qinglong Yan, Radu Timofte, Ramesh Ashok Tabib, Raul Balmez, Reuven Peretz, Rizwan Ali Naqvi, Ruikun Zhang, Sachin Chaudhary, Saiprasad Meesiyawar, Sharif S M A, Shengxi Li, Shijun Shi, Shuo Zhang, Uma Mudenagudi, Varda I Pattanshetty, Varsha I Pattanshetty, Wadii Boulila, Wan-Chi Siu, Wei Zhou, Wenjian Zhang, Xianfang Zeng, Xin Deng, Xinyi Zhu, Xunpeng Yi, Yan Chen, Yaokun Shi, Yaoxin Jiang, Yibing Zhang, Yihao Cheng, Ying Xu, Yong Liu, Yuqiang Yang, Yuval Haitman, Zaynab Ali, Zhi Jin, Ziyi Wang

The NTIRE 2026 Low Light Image Enhancement Challenge shows clear progress in restoring details from low-contrast and noisy images via 22 submitted networks.

arxiv:2604.17669 v2 · 2026-04-19 · cs.CV

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This paper thoroughly evaluates the state-of-the-art advances in (joint denoising and) low-light image enhancement, showcasing the significant progress in the field, while leveraging samples of our novel dataset.

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The assumption that the 22 submitted entries and the novel dataset together provide a representative and unbiased picture of current capabilities in low-light enhancement.

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Report on the NTIRE 2026 Low Light Image Enhancement Challenge that evaluates 22 team submissions for joint denoising and enhancement on a new dataset.

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[1] Workshop and challenges website, 2026 2026

[2] NT-HAZE: A Benchmark Dataset for Re- alistic Night-time Image Dehazing 2026

[3] NTIRE 2026 Nighttime Image De- hazing Challenge Report 2026

[4] Depthlux: Employ- ing depthwise separable convolutions for low-light image enhancement.Sensors, 25(5):1530, 2025 2025

[5] Isalux: Illumination and semantics-aware transformer employing mixture of ex- perts for low light image enhancement 2026

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arxiv: 2604.17669 · arxiv_version: 2604.17669v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.17669 · pith_short_12: PQKF7GUXOVSJ · pith_short_16: PQKF7GUXOVSJ4IQ6 · pith_short_8: PQKF7GUX

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