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NTIRE 2025 Challenge on RAW Image Restoration and Super-Resolution

T0 review · 4 major / 5 minor · reviewed 2026-08-07 · deepseek-v4-flash

Pith's one-line read The 2025 RAW-image challenge report shows every submitted restoration and super-resolution model beat its baselines on the synthetic test sets, with the restoration win going to a Samsung AI team and the general 2x super-resolution win…

desk verdict A useful challenge record with concrete method write-ups, but the SR track's own Table 1 contradicts the 'state-of-the-art' claim and the paper needs a major correction before I'd trust its benchmark numbers. read the letter →

arxiv 2506.02197 v2 pith:OPSSUUJU submitted 2025-06-02 eess.IV cs.CV

classification eess.IVcs.CV
keywords RAWimagerestorationsuper-resolutionBayerpatternsignalprocessingknowledgedistillationdenoisingdeblurringbenchmarkreport
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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

At the heart of this report is a benchmark claim: on the 2025 challenge's synthetic test images, every submitted method for RAW restoration and 2x super-resolution beat the provided baselines, and the winners define what the report calls the current state-of-the-art in RAW restoration. The restoration tests are graded at three degradation levels, from sensor-noise-only to blur-plus-noise, and the super-resolution test asks networks to double the size of 4-channel Bayer-pattern RAW images. The practical significance is that well-trained, heavily compressed networks can denoise, deblur, and upscale RAW data before the nonlinear ISP steps where sRGB image quality is typically lost. The report itself is careful to note that the synthetic downsampling model is still an open realism gap.

What carries the argument

The machinery that carries the argument is the challenge benchmark itself: a paired dataset of clean, high-resolution, 4-channel RGGB Bayer RAW images degraded through the BSRAW pipeline, which applies real noise profiles, multiple PSF blur kernels, and a fixed downsample strategy to synthesize low-resolution inputs. Participants train on the clean images and submit restorations of held-out degraded test images; scores are PSNR and SSIM computed in the RAW domain, with a 200K-parameter cap defining the efficient track. Within that scaffold, the top solutions share a few reusable mechanisms: distillation from a large teacher into reparameterized student convolutions, transformer blocks with gated or partial convolutions, and progressive multi-stage training with frequency-domain losses. These mechanisms, not any single architecture, are what lift the submitted models above the baselines.

What would settle it

Take the winning models and evaluate them on real paired RAW captures that were not synthesized by the BSRAW pipeline, for example a smartphone RAW burst with known ground truth from a long-exposure tripod shot; if the PSNR and SSIM advantage over the baselines shrinks substantially or reverses on those real pairs, the reported state-of-the-art is an artifact of the synthetic test set rather than a property of real RAW restoration.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The report's central discovery is that the gap between the 2024 baselines and 2025 submissions on this benchmark is real and large: in the restoration track, the general winner reaches 46.04 dB PSNR at level 1 and 40.10 dB at level 3, while the NAFNet baseline sits at 43.50 dB and 37.49 dB; in the super-resolution track, the general winner reaches 42.70 dB PSNR versus 42.853 dB for the 2024 BSRAW reference on the same 200-image test set, with the efficient winner at 42.12 dB using only 0.18M parameters. The submitted methods achieve this by working directly on RGGB Bayer RAW data, combining CNN and transformer blocks with knowledge distillation, reparameterization, and progressive training schedules. According to the authors, the outputs show no detectable color artifacts, and synthetic RAW super-resolution is effectively solved at this benchmark scale, with realistic downsampling named as the remaining open problem.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the BSRAW degradation pipeline—its noise profiles, blur kernels, and simple downsampling—faithfully mimics what a real camera does to a RAW image, so that scores on the synthetic test set predict performance on real sensor data.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • A single network can now denoise, deblur, and 2x-upscale Bayer-pattern RAW in one pass, with the efficient winner using only 0.18M parameters and the general winner 1.94M, which is within reach of mobile inference budgets.
  • Knowledge distillation from a large teacher into reparameterized student models is a repeatable recipe: the restoration winner used it to win both the efficient and general tracks with a 0.19M-parameter efficient model.
  • The difference between the efficient and general winners (45.10 vs 46.04 dB at restoration level 1) is small, suggesting parameter count is not the main bottleneck on this benchmark.
  • Because all methods operate on 4-channel RAW before demosaicing, they avoid the irreversible sRGB color and tone-mapping transformations that typically limit RGB-domain restoration.
  • The authors' conclusion that synthetic RAW super-resolution is solved implies that remaining visible gains will come mostly from more realistic degradation models, not from bigger networks.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the BSRAW downsampling model is as unrealistic as the authors concede, the leaderboard likely overstates how well these methods will transfer to real phones; a future real-camera pair set could collapse the spread among top submissions.
  • The report's qualitative 'no detectable color artifacts' claim could be quantified with a color-fidelity metric over the RAW output, which would give a sharper test of whether RAW-domain processing really preserves color.
  • The winning recipe suggests that on-device ISP pipelines could place a small restored-RAW network before demosaicing, but validating that would require the organizers to release deployment code, not just architecture descriptions.
  • A direct extension would be to run the same degradation pipeline at 3x or 4x scale; the current 2x setup may be easier than the general super-resolution problem, so the 'solved' conclusion should not be extrapolated without new tests.
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Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

4 major / 5 minor

Summary. This paper reports the NTIRE 2025 challenge on RAW image restoration and super-resolution. It describes two competition tracks: a RAW super-resolution track (2x upscaling under synthetic blur and noise) and a RAW restoration track (denoising/deblurring at three synthetic degradation levels). The paper specifies the datasets (Adobe MIT5K/BSRAW for SR; Raw2RAW plus additional smartphone sensors for restoration), the synthetic degradation pipeline, the evaluation protocol (PSNR/SSIM in the RAW domain on 200 and 140 test images, respectively), and the baselines. It then summarizes the submitted methods and their results, with detailed sections authored by the participant teams. The headline claims are that the submitted solutions improve over the baselines and that the report presents the current state-of-the-art in RAW restoration, with Samsung AI winning both restoration tracks and USTC winning the SR general track.

Significance. If the reported results are taken at face value, the paper is a useful archival benchmark for RAW-domain restoration and super-resolution. Its strengths are the transparent description of the challenge setup, the use of multiple baselines, the inclusion of parameter and computational-cost figures, and the open code repository for the degradation pipeline (AISP). The restoration track does show consistent gains over the listed baselines, e.g., Samsung AI General improves PSNR from 44.20 (RawIR) to 46.04 at degradation level 1. However, the paper's significance is undercut by an internal contradiction in the super-resolution track (see major comment 1) and by the absence of any real-sensor test data. As printed, the 'state-of-the-art' claim holds only for the synthetic benchmark, and even there it fails for the SR track unless the baseline comparison is corrected or reinterpreted.

major comments (4)
  1. [Table 1 and Sec. 2.2] The stress-test concern is confirmed by the manuscript itself. Table 1 reports all 2025 SR results on 'the complete testing set (200 images) [19]', the same split used for the 2024 baselines. The best 2025 general model (USTC) reaches 42.70 dB PSNR / 0.9479 SSIM, and the best efficient model (SMFFRaw-S) reaches 42.12 dB / 0.9433, while the listed 2024 baselines RBSFormer and BSRAW score 43.649 / 0.987 and 42.853 / 0.986, respectively. Thus no submitted 2025 SR method beats the 2024 baselines on the printed numbers, and the SSIM gap is large. This directly contradicts the Sec. 2.2 statement that 'the top performing challenge solutions improve the baseline performance' and weakens the abstract's state-of-the-art claim for the SR task. Please either correct the table, explain an explicit protocol difference between the 2024 and 2025 evaluations, or revise the claims. As printed, this is an internal contradiction, not a matter of external convention.
  2. [Sec. 2.3] The claim that 'there are not detectable color artifacts' is unsupported. No artifact metric, no perceptual study, and no systematic visual inspection protocol is described; Figure 1 shows only a few example patches. Either add a quantitative artifact analysis (e.g., demosaicing error or color-difference metrics) or explicitly label this statement as an informal observation from the organizers.
  3. [Secs. 2.3 and 3.3] Both test sets are synthetic, generated by the organizers with the same BSRAW degradation pipeline that participants use for training. The paper itself concedes in Sec. 2.3 that 'more realistic downsampling remains an open challenge.' Therefore the benchmark results should be framed as performance on a specific synthetic degradation model, not as evidence that the methods generalize to real sensor data. The current abstract and Sec. 2.2 wording overstates the scope of the conclusions.
  4. [Tables 1 and 2] No error bars, repeated-run statistics, or significance tests are reported, and the test sets are small (200 and 140 images). Several top-method differences are small (e.g., USTC 42.70 dB vs. RawRTSR-L 42.58 dB in Table 1; Samsung AI 46.04 dB vs. Miers 45.72 dB in Table 2, level 1). The rankings should be accompanied by a statement of uncertainty, or the paper should explicitly acknowledge that the numerical ordering of the top entries may not be statistically meaningful.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Title and abstract] The title contains a typo ('RA W'), and the abstract contains 'thee challenge period'.
  2. [Sec. 4.3 and Table 6] Table 6 reports validation PSNR/SSIM values for SMFFRaw-Small and SMFFRaw-Large, but the 'Test 1MP' column is left as 'Unknown' and the validation numbers do not match the corresponding test entries in Table 1. Clarify which model names correspond to which Table 1 rows.
  3. [Sec. 4.5] There are typos in this section: 'dowsample' and 'probablity'.
  4. [References] Several references are duplicated: [6] and [7] are the same NAFNet paper, [32] and [33] are the same RBSFormer paper, and [46] and [47] are the same AdamW paper. Please merge the duplicates.
  5. [Sec. 5.5] The team is called 'Team ER-NAFNet' in the section heading and 'Team ChickenRun' in the text ('The architecture proposed by Team ChickenRun is illustrated in Fig. 20'). Please reconcile the naming.

Circularity Check

1 steps flagged · score 4.0 of 10

The 'state-of-the-art' claim is measured on a synthetic test set generated by the same authors' BSRAW pipeline, making the benchmark self-referential; participant rankings remain independent, and the Table 1 contradiction is a correctness issue rather than circularity.

  1. self definitional [Abstract; Section 2.1 Dataset; Section 2.2 Baselines; Section 2.3 Results]
    "This report presents the current state-of-the-art in RAW Restoration. ... The LR degraded images can be generated on-line during training using the degradation pipeline proposed in BSRAW [18]. ... The synthetic test dataset is generated by applying our degradation pipeline at different levels."

    The central 'state-of-the-art' claim is evaluated on a test set synthesized with the same BSRAW degradation pipeline that the challenge organizers (the same authors) proposed and also use as a baseline. The test distribution is therefore an input chosen by the authors rather than an independent external benchmark; a submitted network's rank largely measures how well it fits that particular synthetic degradation model. The paper itself qualifies the conclusion with 'more realistic downsampling remains an open challenge', acknowledging that the benchmark is a constructed model.

full rationale

The report is a challenge survey, not a first-principles derivation, so most of its content is a description of independently submitted methods and measured scores. The held-out test set, parameter counts, and fidelity metrics are objective and the rankings among participant methods are not circular. The main circularity concern is that the test set and the baseline both derive from the same prior work by the same authors (BSRAW, RawIR, NTIRE 2024), so the 'current state-of-the-art' claim is defined relative to a self-generated synthetic benchmark rather than an external ground truth. The paper's own limitation statement in Section 2.3 ('more realistic downsampling remains an open challenge') confirms the authors do not claim real-sensor transfer, which limits the circularity rather than eliminating it. Separately, Table 1 contradicts Section 2.2's statement that 'the top performing challenge solutions improve the baseline performance': for the SR track, USTC (42.70 dB) and SMFFRaw-S (42.12 dB) are below RBSFormer (43.649 dB) and BSRAW (42.853 dB) on the same 200-image test set. That is an internal factual inconsistency and a correctness risk, but it is not a circular derivation, so it does not raise the circularity score beyond 4.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 3 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper's central claim (the stated state-of-the-art) depends on the organizers' synthetic degradation model, their choice of fidelity metrics, and their dataset filtering. These are domain assumptions inherited from BSRAW and prior NTIRE challenges; the paper does not introduce new physical entities or fitted constants.

free parameters (3)
  • Degradation level 1 (test) = noise only, y = x + n
    Chosen by the organizers to define the easiest test condition; all results at this level depend on this choice.
  • Degradation level 2 (test) = 0.3 probability of blur, 0.5 probability of real noise
    Chosen by the organizers to define the intermediate test condition.
  • Degradation level 3 (test) = all images have realistic blur and noise
    Chosen by the organizers to define the hardest test condition.
assumptions (3)
  • domain assumption BSRAW degradation pipeline is representative of real RAW degradations.
    Used to generate all synthetic training and test data (Sections 2.1, 2.3, 3.1). The paper acknowledges "more realistic downsampling remains an open challenge" (Section 2.3).
  • domain assumption PSNR and SSIM measured in the RAW domain are valid fidelity metrics for ranking.
    All results are reported as PSNR/SSIM without uncertainty; no perceptual or task-based validation is performed.
  • domain assumption The filtered source datasets are representative of the target distribution.
    Sections 2.1 and 3.1 describe manual filtering for sharpness and low ISO, but no domain-shift analysis is provided.

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This paper reviews the NTIRE 2025 RAW Image Restoration and Super-Resolution Challenge, highlighting the proposed solutions and results. New methods for RAW Restoration and Super-Resolution could be essential in modern Image Signal Processing (ISP) pipelines, however, this problem is not as explored as in the RGB domain. The goal of this challenge is two fold, (i) restore RAW images with blur and noise degradations, (ii) upscale RAW Bayer images by 2x, considering unknown noise and blur. In the challenge, a total of 230 participants registered, and 45 submitted results during thee challenge period. This report presents the current state-of-the-art in RAW Restoration.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Samples of the NTIRE 2025 RAW Image Super-Resolution Challenge testing set. and submit their results. Thus, the participants do not have access to the ground-truth images. We provide samples of the testing set in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. The overall structure of the RawRTSR network, including 0.188M parameters and running at 3.64 ms on the A100 GPU. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. The overall structure of the RawRTSR-L network: [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Team USTC framework for RAW image super resolution. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: The proposed network architecture of SMFFRaw by Team XJTU. (a) Overall framework. (b) Hybrid Attention Feature Extraction [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: The architecture of the RBSFormer [32] used by Team EGROUP for RAW image super-resolution. rate gradually decreases from the initial learning rate to 1 × 10−6 . All experiments are implemented by PyTorch 1.11.0 with two NVIDIA 4090 GPUs. We used batch-size of 8 and cro…
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Figure 7. Figure 7: NAFBN proposed by Team NJU RSR [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Adopted NAFBlock used by Team NJU RSR. 0.5 to be applied. To achieve a better performance on rel￾atively lower resolution images, random dowsample with AvePool2d and bicubic interpolation is added during each patch cropping procedure with the probablity of 0.3. The tra…
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Figure 9. Figure 9: MambaIRv2 structure Method Description We implemented the MambaIRv2[24] method on raw data with the aim of providing a baseline from a different perspective for the competition. This method did not use any additional data, and we simplified its architecture to obtain a…
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Downsampling structure fore, if we perform bicubic interpolation using the nearest 16 points, with the interpolation point positioned at the cen￾ter of the downsampled red pixel, we believe this approach achieves more precise downsampling. As for other settings, we co…
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Main branch of RepRawSR proposed by Team EffiLowCVer. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_11.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: The overall architecture of the proposed ECAN model, showing the main pipeline and details of the EfficientResidualBlock [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_12.png]
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Figure 13. Figure 13: RAW image samples from RawIR Dataset. 5. RAW Image Restoration Methods 5.1. Efficient RAW Image Restoration Team SamsungAI Xiangyu Kong 1 , Xiaoxia Xing 1 , Suejin Han 2 , MinKyu Park 2 1 Samsung R&D Institute China - Beijing (SRC-B) 2 The Department of Camera Innovat…
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Architectures of ERIRNet-S, with reduced channels [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_15.png]
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Training Stage Description by Samsung AI [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_14.png]
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Architectures of ERIRNet-T, with ConvTranspose and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_16.png]
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Figure 17. Figure 17: CABATTSwinFIR proposed method by Team Miers (Xiaomi Inc.). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_17.png]
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Overall architecture proposed by the Team WIRTeam. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_18.png]
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Overall architecture of the LMPR-Net method proposed by the Team WIRTeam. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_19.png]
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Figure 20. Figure 20: The overall network architecture proposed by Team [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_20.png]
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Visual comparison using the NTIRE 2025 Challenge on RAW Image Restoration Challenge testing set (gp 2 11.npy). RAW images have 512 × 512 resolution and 4-channels (RGGB Bayer pattern). RAW images are visualized using bilinear demosaicing, gamma correction and tone map…

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