CVPR NTIRE 2026 UGC Short‑Video Restoration Challenge: Winning Solutions and Highlights
The CVPR NTIRE 2026 challenge introduced the KwaiVIR benchmark for real‑world UGC short‑video degradation, attracted 95 registered teams with 12 final submissions from 14 universities and 5 companies, evaluated on subjective human scores and objective metrics (PSNR, SSIM, LPIPS, MUSIQ, WarpError), and saw RedMediaTech achieve the top overall performance with a subjective score of 3.8525 and the best objective results (PSNR 30.7610, SSIM 0.8504, LPIPS 0.1910), while detailed analyses of the leading three methods reveal diverse two‑stage diffusion and generative pipelines.
