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Seonjoo Kim

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The Fourth Challenge on Image Super-Resolution ($\times$4) at NTIRE 2026: Benchmark Results and Method Overview

This paper presents the NTIRE 2026 image super-resolution ($\times$4) challenge, one of the associated competitions of the NTIRE 2026 Workshop at CVPR 2026. The challenge aims to reconstruct high-resolution (HR) images from low-resolution (LR) inputs generated through bicubic downsampling with a $\times$4 scaling factor. The objective is to develop effective super-resolution solutions and analyze recent advances in the field. To reflect the evolving objectives of image super-resolution, the challenge includes two tracks: (1) a restoration track, which emphasizes pixel-wise fidelity and ranks submissions based on PSNR; and (2) a perceptual track, which focuses on visual realism and evaluates results using a perceptual score. A total of 194 participants registered for the challenge, with 31 teams submitting valid entries. This report summarizes the challenge design, datasets, evaluation protocol, main results, and methods of participating teams. The challenge provides a unified benchmark and offers insights into current progress and future directions in image super-resolution.

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SceneAdapt: Scene-aware Adaptation of Human Motion Diffusion

Human motion is inherently diverse and semantically rich, while also shaped by the surrounding scene. However, existing motion generation approaches fail to generate semantically diverse motion while simultaneously respecting geometric scene constraints, since constructing large-scale datasets with both rich text-motion coverage and precise scene interactions is extremely challenging. In this work, we introduce SceneAdapt, a two-stage adaptation framework that enables semantically diverse, scene-aware human motion generation from text without large-scale paired text--scene--motion data. Our key idea is to use motion inbetweening, a learnable proxy task that requires no text, as a bridge between two disjoint resources: a text-motion dataset and a scene-motion dataset. By first adapting a text-to-motion model through inbetweening and then through scene-aware inbetweening, SceneAdapt injects geometric scene constraints into text-conditioned generation while preserving semantic diversity. To enable adaptation for inbetweening, we propose a novel Context-aware Keyframing (CaKey) layer that modulates motion latents for keyframe-conditioned synthesis while preserving the original latent manifold. To further adapt the model for scene-aware inbetweening, we introduce a Scene-conditioning (SceneCo) layer that injects geometric scene information by adaptively querying local context via cross-attention. Experimental results show that SceneAdapt effectively injects scene-awareness into text-to-motion models without sacrificing semantic diversity, and we further analyze the mechanisms through which this awareness emerges. Code and models will be released. Project page: \href{https://sceneadapt.github.io/}{sceneadapt.github.io}

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A Training-Free, Task-Agnostic Framework for Enhancing MLLM Performance on High-Resolution Images

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in vision-language understanding, reasoning, and generation. However, they struggle with tasks requiring fine-grained localization and reasoning in high-resolution images. This constraint stems from the fact that MLLMs are fine-tuned with fixed image resolution to align with the pre-trained image encoder used in MLLM. Consequently, feeding high-resolution images directly into MLLMs leads to poor generalization due to a train-test resolution discrepancy, while downsampling these images-although ensuring consistency-compromises fine-grained visual details and ultimately degrades performance. To address this challenge, we propose Extract Candidate then Predict (ECP), a novel training-free, task-agnostic two-stage framework designed to enhance MLLM performance on high-resolution images. The key intuition behind ECP is that while MLLMs struggle with high-resolution images, their predictions on downsampled images still contain implicit localization cues. By first identifying candidate region using the coarse prediction and then predicting the final output based on candidate region, ECP effectively preserves fine-grained details while mitigating the challenges posed by high-resolution data. We validate our framework on 4K GUI grounding and 4K, 8K MLLM perception, achieving +21.3%, +5.8%, +5.2% absolute improvement compared to baseline respectively, demonstrating its effectiveness. Code is available at https://github.com/yenncye/ECP.

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