The Second Challenge on Real-World Face Restoration at NTIRE 2026: Methods and Results
Published in arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.10532v2 / CVPR 2026 Workshop, 2026
Abstract: This paper reviews the NTIRE 2026 real-world face restoration challenge, summarizing the task, evaluation protocol, participating teams, submitted methods, and final results. The challenge focuses on perceptual quality, realism, and identity consistency for real-world degraded face restoration.