NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Short-form UGC Video Quality Assessment and Enhancement: KwaiSR Dataset and Study

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15003v1
• Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:04:26 GMT
• Title: NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Short-form UGC Video Quality Assessment and Enhancement: KwaiSR Dataset and Study
• Authors: Xin Li, Xijun Wang, Bingchen Li, Kun Yuan, Yizhen Shao, Suhang Yao, Ming Sun, Chao Zhou, Radu Timofte, Zhibo Chen,
• Abstract summary: We build the first benchmark dataset for short-form Image Super-resolution in the wild, termed KwaiSR.<n>This dataset is collected from the Kwai Platform, which is composed of two parts, i.e., synthetic and wild parts.<n>Based on the KwaiSR dataset, we organize the NTIRE 2025 challenge on a second short-form Video quality assessment and enhancement.
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• Abstract: In this work, we build the first benchmark dataset for short-form UGC Image Super-resolution in the wild, termed KwaiSR, intending to advance the research on developing image super-resolution algorithms for short-form UGC platforms. This dataset is collected from the Kwai Platform, which is composed of two parts, i.e., synthetic and wild parts. Among them, the synthetic dataset, including 1,900 image pairs, is produced by simulating the degradation following the distribution of real-world low-quality short-form UGC images, aiming to provide the ground truth for training and objective comparison in the validation/testing. The wild dataset contains low-quality images collected directly from the Kwai Platform, which are filtered using the quality assessment method KVQ from the Kwai Platform. As a result, the KwaiSR dataset contains 1800 synthetic image pairs and 1900 wild images, which are divided into training, validation, and testing parts with a ratio of 8:1:1. Based on the KwaiSR dataset, we organize the NTIRE 2025 challenge on a second short-form UGC Video quality assessment and enhancement, which attracts lots of researchers to develop the algorithm for it. The results of this competition have revealed that our KwaiSR dataset is pretty challenging for existing Image SR methods, which is expected to lead to a new direction in the image super-resolution field. The dataset can be found from https://lixinustc.github.io/NTIRE2025-KVQE-KwaSR-KVQ.github.io/.

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