NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Event-Based Image Deblurring: Methods and Results

This paper presents an overview of NTIRE 2025 the First Challenge on Event-Based Image Deblurring, detailing the proposed methodologies and corresponding results. The primary goal of the challenge is to design an event-based method that achieves high-quality image deblurring, with performance quantitatively assessed using Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR). Notably, there are no restrictions on computational complexity or model size. The task focuses on leveraging both events and images as inputs for single-image deblurring. A total of 199 participants registered, among whom 15 teams successfully submitted valid results, offering valuable insights into the current state of event-based image deblurring. We anticipate that this challenge will drive further advancements in event-based vision research.
View on arXiv@article{sun2025_2504.12401, title={ NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Event-Based Image Deblurring: Methods and Results }, author={ Lei Sun and Andrea Alfarano and Peiqi Duan and Shaolin Su and Kaiwei Wang and Boxin Shi and Radu Timofte and Danda Pani Paudel and Luc Van Gool and Qinglin Liu and Wei Yu and Xiaoqian Lv and Lu Yang and Shuigen Wang and Shengping Zhang and Xiangyang Ji and Long Bao and Yuqiang Yang and Jinao Song and Ziyi Wang and Shuang Wen and Heng Sun and Kean Liu and Mingchen Zhong and Senyan Xu and Zhijing Sun and Jiaying Zhu and Chengjie Ge and Xingbo Wang and Yidi Liu and Xin Lu and Xueyang Fu and Zheng-Jun Zha and Dawei Fan and Dafeng Zhang and Yong Yang and Siru Zhang and Qinghua Yang and Hao Kang and Huiyuan Fu and Heng Zhang and Hongyuan Yu and Zhijuan Huang and Shuoyan Wei and Feng Li and Runmin Cong and Weiqi Luo and Mingyun Lin and Chenxu Jiang and Hongyi Liu and Lei Yu and Weilun Li and Jiajun Zhai and Tingting Lin and Shuang Ma and Sai Zhou and Zhanwen Liu and Yang Wang and Eiffel Chong and Nuwan Bandara and Thivya Kandappu and Archan Misra and Yihang Chen and Zhan Li and Weijun Yuan and Wenzhuo Wang and Boyang Yao and Zhanglu Chen and Yijing Sun and Tianjiao Wan and Zijian Gao and Qisheng Xu and Kele Xu and Yukun Zhang and Yu He and Xiaoyan Xie and Tao Fu and Yashu Gautamkumar Patel and Vihar Ramesh Jain and Divesh Basina and Rishik Ashili and Manish Kumar Manjhi and Sourav Kumar and Prinon Benny and Himanshu Ghunawat and B Sri Sairam Gautam and Anett Varghese and Abhishek Yadav }, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.12401}, year={ 2025 } }