MIPI 2023 Challenge on Nighttime Flare Removal


Nikhil Akalwadi, Ankit Raichur, Vinod Patil, Allabakash G, Swaroop A, Amogh Joshi, Chaitra Desai, Ramesh Ashok Tabib, Ujwala Patil, Uma Mudenagudi

Abstract

Developing and integrating advanced image sensors with novel algorithms in camera systems are prevalent with the increasing demand for computational photography and imaging on mobile platforms. However, the lack of high-quality data for research and the rare opportunity for in-depth exchange of views from industry and academia constrain the development of mobile intelligent photography and imaging (MIPI). With the success of the 1st MIPI Workshop@ECCV 2022, we introduce the second MIPI challenge including four tracks focusing on novel image sensors and imaging algorithms. In this paper, we summarize and review the Nighttime Flare Removal track on MIPI 2023. In total, 120 participants were successfully registered, and 11 teams submitted results in the final testing phase. The developed solutions in this challenge achieved state-of-the-art performance on Nighttime Flare Removal. A detailed description of all models developed in this challenge is provided in this paper. More details of this challenge and the link to the dataset can be found at https://mipi-challenge.org/MIPI2023/.



Our team ranked 9th globally in the MIPI 2023 Challenge on Flare Removal

Results of our proposed DeFlare-Net: Detection and Removal of Flares From Images

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BibTeX

@InProceedings{Ershov_2022_CVPR,

    author    = {Ershov, Egor and Savchik, Alex and Shepelev, Denis and Bani\'c, Nikola and Brown, Michael S. and Timofte, Radu and Ko\v{s}\v{c}evi\'c, Karlo and Freeman, Michael and Tesalin, Vasily and Bocharov, Dmitry and Semenkov, Illya and Suba\v{s}ic, Marko and Lon\v{c}ari\'c, Sven and Terekhin, Arseniy and Liu, Shuai and Feng, Chaoyu and Wang, Hao and Zhu, Ran and Li, Yongqiang and Lei, Lei and Li, Zhihao and Yi, Si and Han, Ling-Hao and Wu, Ruiqi and Jin, Xin and Guo, Chunle and Kinli, Furkan and Mente\c{s}, Sami and \"Ozcan, Bari\c{s} and K{\i}ra\c{c}, Furkan and Zini, Simone and Rota, Claudio and Buzzelli, Marco and Bianco, Simone and Schettini, Raimondo and Li, Wei and Ma, Yipeng and Wang, Tao and Xu, Ruikang and Song, Fenglong and Chen, Wei-Ting and Yang, Hao-Hsiang and Huang, Zhi-Kai and Chang, Hua-En and Kuo, Sy-Yen and Liang, Zhexin and Zhou, Shangchen and Feng, Ruicheng and Li, Chongyi and Chen, Xiangyu and Song, Binbin and Zhang, Shile and Liu, Lin and Wang, Zhendong and Ryu, Dohoon and Bae, Hyokyoung and Kwon, Taesung and Desai, Chaitra and Akalwadi, Nikhil and Joshi, Amogh and Mandi, Chinmayee and Malagi, Sampada and Uppin, Akash and Reddy, Sai Sudheer and Tabib, Ramesh Ashok and Patil, Ujwala and Mudenagudi, Uma},

    title     = {NTIRE 2022 Challenge on Night Photography Rendering},

    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops},

    month     = {June},

    year      = {2022},

    pages     = {1287-1300}

}