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NTIRE 2026 3D Restoration and Reconstruction in Real-world Adverse Conditions: RealX3D Challenge Results

Shuhong Liu , Chenyu Bao , Ziteng Cui , Xuangeng Chu , Bin Ren , Lin Gu , Xiang Chen , Mingrui Li
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Shared design principles from top entries advance 3D reconstruction in low-light and smoky scenes.

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This paper reviews the outcomes of the NTIRE 2026 3D Restoration and Reconstruction Challenge using the RealX3D benchmark. The benchmark tests reconstruction on real scenes captured in extreme low-light and smoke conditions. Thirty-three teams submitted methods that were evaluated against existing baselines, showing measurable progress. The review identifies common design choices that appear in the strongest entries. These choices point to practical ways to improve 3D scene recovery when input data is heavily degraded.

Core claim

The paper establishes that robust 3D reconstruction pipelines can be achieved under adverse conditions by following shared design principles identified from the top-performing submissions in the RealX3D challenge, as demonstrated by their superior performance over state-of-the-art baselines on the benchmark dataset.

What carries the argument

The RealX3D benchmark dataset of real captured scenes under low-light and smoke degradation, which serves as the test platform to compare submissions and extract effective strategies for handling 3D scene degradation.

If this is right

  • Top-performing methods achieve higher accuracy than prior baselines when reconstructing 3D scenes from degraded images.
  • Common design principles can be directly adopted to strengthen existing 3D reconstruction systems for real environments.
  • The challenge creates a public standard for measuring progress on 3D reconstruction under combined degradations.
  • Insights from the submissions guide future work toward methods that handle multiple adverse factors at once.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The identified principles could be tested on dynamic scenes or video input to check if they extend beyond static images.
  • Adding other common degradations such as rain or fog to future benchmarks would test how general the principles are.
  • Integrating the successful strategies with depth sensors or multi-view data might produce even stronger real-world systems.

Load-bearing premise

The RealX3D benchmark together with the submitted methods gives a representative picture of real-world performance under adverse conditions.

What would settle it

A new method that scores high on RealX3D but performs poorly on a separate collection of real low-light and smoke scenes would show the benchmark does not fully represent the problem.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.04135 by Bin Ren, Bowen He, Boyuan Tian, Changhe Liu, Changyue Shi, Chenkun Guo, Chenyu Bao, Cunchuan Huang, Debin Zhao, Dingju Wang, Dizhe Zhang, Donggun Kim, Dufeng Zhang, Fei Wang, Gang He, Gengjia Chang, Hang Song, Hanqing Wang, Hantang Li, Haojie Guo, Haoran Feng, Hongde Gu, Hongsen Zhang, Hong Zhang, Il-Youp Kwak, Jeongbin You, Jiaao Shan, Jiacheng Liu, Jiajun Ding, Jingshuo Zeng, Jinqiang Cui, Junbo Yang, Junjun Jiang, Junwei Yuan, Jun Yu, Kui Jiang, Kun Li, Linfeng Li, Lin Gu, Linzhe Jiang, Lixia Han, Long Ma, Louzhe Xu, Lu Qi, Mache You, Manabu Tsukada, Marcos V. Conde, Meixi Song, Mingrui Li, Mingzhe Lyu, Phan The Son, Qiang Zhu, Qida Cao, Qingxia Ye, Qi Xu, Radu Timofte, Runyu Zhu, Ryo Umagami, Seho Ahn, Seungsang Oh, Shiyu Liu, Shuhong Liu, Sixun Dong, Tatsuya Harada, Tianhan Xu, Tingting Li, Tomohiro Hashimoto, Weijie Wang, Weisi Lin, Weizhi Nie, Wei Zhou, Wenhan Yang, Xiandong Meng, Xiang Chen, Xiaopeng Fan, Xingan Zhan, Xining Ge, Xinye Zheng, Xinyuan Hu, Xuangeng Chu, Xueming Fu, Yang Gu, Yanyan Wei, Younghyuk Kim, Yuan Gan, Yubao Fu, Yuchao Chen, Yufei Li, Yuhao Liu, Yun Liu, Yusuke Kurose, Zeliang Li, Zhanqi Shi, Zheng Zhang, Zhenyu Zhao, Zhihua Xu, Zhiliang Wu, Zhimiao Shi, Zhiqiang Zhang, Zhiwei Wang, Zhou Yu, Zihan Zhai, Zijian Hu, Ziteng Cui, Zixuan Guo, Ziyang Zheng.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Visualizations of clean-degraded pairs in Track 1 & 2. Each track features 7 distinct scenes from the RealX3D benchmark [ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Overall architecture of the proposed multi-branch low [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of the proposed Fusion-Guided Multi-Stage [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Overview of the proposed TCIDNet-IBGS. Method The authors propose TCIDNet-IBGS, a unified framework combining illumination-aware image restora￾tion with geometry-driven rendering (see [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Overview of the proposed NAKA-GS [86] pipeline, in￾cluding NAKA-based enhancement, VGGT-based multi-view re￾construction, and Gaussian Splatting with PPM preprocessing. Method The authors propose NAKA-GS [86], a pipeline integrating a Naka-guided chroma-correction model and a Point-cloud Pruning Module (PPM) for low-light 3DGS (see [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Overall architecture of IDEAL. The Appearance MLP [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Overview of IC-GS. Top: low-light enhancement via [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Overview of GREP-GS. Pseudo-enhanced targets and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: The overall architecture of ELoG-GS [53], featuring hybrid dual-branch reconstruction and post-enhancement stages. Method The authors propose Extreme Low-light Op￾timized Gaussian Splatting (ELoG-GS) [53], an explicit “restoration-then-reconstruction” framework. As shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Overview of AdaTone-GS. Adaptive pseudo-GTs su [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: GammaGS pipeline. Stage 1: gamma correction re￾stores brightness. Stage 2: 3DGS reconstruction. Stage 3: per￾channel affine transform corrects systematic color biases. Method The authors propose GammaGS, a three-stage pipeline designed to address extreme under-exposure and systematic color biases. (1) Brightness Restoration: A uniform gamma correction (Ienh = I γ low with γ = 0.2) is applied to all traini… view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Overview of SLL-GS [26]. A three-stage low-light 3DGS pipeline: Stages 1–2 build geometry from COLMAP an￾chors with depth and reprojection priors; Stage 3 restores appear￾ance via an illumination head and a YCbCr chroma residual. Method The authors propose a three-stage low-light 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) pipeline [26] that decouples luminance recovery from chroma correction and relies on multi-view sp… view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: The overall framework of 3DLLR. β2 = 0.999). An exponential scheduler decays learning rates to 1% of their initial values. The total loss is formu￾lated as: Ltotal = Llow +0.5·Lenh+Lspa+10·Lhist where Llow is the low-light reconstruction loss (log(Charbonnier) + SSIM, λSSIM = 0.2), Lenh is the enhanced image re￾construction loss, Lspa is the spatial consistency loss, and Lhist is the histogram prior loss.… view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Overview of DarkIR-GS. A DarkIR module restores [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Overview of LLE-GS. An end-to-end framework that [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_16.png] view at source ↗
Figure 18
Figure 18. Figure 18: Overall pipeline of the proposed AIC-GER method. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Overview of RunAI-Harmony3D. Method The authors propose RunAI-Harmony3D, which utilizes global photometric references and two complemen￾tary 3D branches: I2-NeRF [48] (geometry-stable anchor) and LITA-GS [85] (low-light recovery). HVI-CIDNet [78], DarkIR [20], and DA3 [44] are integrated to provide 2D photometric and pose-conditioned depth priors. The pipeline consists of 4 stages: (1) scene diagnostics, … view at source ↗
Figure 20
Figure 20. Figure 20: Overview of Smoke-GS [83]. Hazy images are first enhanced by NanoBanana Pro, then a Smoke Medium Module en￾codes pixel ray directions via the Smoke-GS Encoder and predicts medium parameters through a Smoke Medium MLP. Finally, the predicted medium terms are fused with 3DGS rendering. Module is introduced. Based on the camera intrinsics and poses of the target view, the corresponding viewing ray direction … view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Overview of the proposed DiT-IBGS. Method The authors propose a parameter-efficient latent diffusion framework based on the pretrained FLUX.1-dev model. As shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_22.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Overview of the MSDG pipeline. Multi-view hazy [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_21.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 24. Figure 24: Overview of SmokeGS-R. Refined DCP inversion su [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_24.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 23. Figure 23: Overview of DePhy-GS. Smoke degradation is progres [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_23.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 25. Figure 25: Overall architecture of SDG-GS. A clean 3D Gaus [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_25.png] view at source ↗
Figure 27
Figure 27. Figure 27: Overview of 3DSmokeR. Stage 1 preprocesses smoke [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_27.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 28. Figure 28: Overview of MonoSmokeGS. Method They propose MonoSmokeGS, which combines 3DGS with the atmospheric scattering model. Scene Gaus￾sians represent clean appearance and geometry, while a low￾resolution beta grid for each view models spatially vary￾ing smoke. Depth-AnythingV3 [44] provides depth and confidence priors for Gaussian initialization and geome￾try supervision, and MaIR [36] provides structure guid￾a… view at source ↗
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Figure 29. Figure 29: Overall pipeline of CPG-GS. Stage 1 utilizes a pre￾trained Dehazeformer to remove scattering effects. Stage 2 explic￾itly leverages the restored images (Iˆ2D) to extract reliable anchors via COLMAP, followed by per-scene Scaffold-GS optimization [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_29.png] view at source ↗
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This paper presents a comprehensive review of the NTIRE 2026 3D Restoration and Reconstruction (3DRR) Challenge, detailing the proposed methods and results. The challenge seeks to identify robust reconstruction pipelines that are robust under real-world adverse conditions, specifically extreme low-light and smoke-degraded environments, as captured by our RealX3D benchmark. A total of 279 participants registered for the competition, of whom 33 teams submitted valid results. We thoroughly evaluate the submitted approaches against state-of-the-art baselines, revealing significant progress in 3D reconstruction under adverse conditions. Our analysis highlights shared design principles among top-performing methods and provides insights into effective strategies for handling 3D scene degradation.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper reports results from the NTIRE 2026 3D Restoration and Reconstruction Challenge on the RealX3D benchmark for 3D scene reconstruction under extreme low-light and smoke-degraded conditions. It describes participation (279 registered, 33 valid submissions), evaluates submitted methods against state-of-the-art baselines, claims significant progress, and identifies shared design principles (e.g., fusion, denoising, depth priors) among top entries as effective strategies for adverse 3D reconstruction.

Significance. If the benchmark faithfully represents real-world degradations and the shared-principle analysis is supported by controlled evidence, the work supplies practical guidance for robust 3D pipelines in robotics, autonomous systems, and surveillance under uncontrolled adverse conditions.

major comments (3)
  1. [§4] §4 (Results and Evaluation): the claim of 'significant progress' over baselines is stated without accompanying quantitative metrics, error bars, statistical tests, or per-scene breakdowns; the abstract and summary sections alone do not allow verification of the magnitude or consistency of improvement.
  2. [§5] §5 (Analysis of Design Principles): the post-hoc categorization of shared strategies (fusion, denoising, depth priors) is presented descriptively; no ablation studies on RealX3D are reported that isolate each principle's contribution while controlling for benchmark-specific artifacts such as synthetic smoke density or fixed trajectories.
  3. [§3] §3 (RealX3D Benchmark): the capture protocol and degradation statistics are summarized but lack explicit comparison (e.g., KL divergence or perceptual metrics) to uncontrolled field data, leaving open the risk that top-method commonalities reflect benchmark idiosyncrasies rather than transferable robustness.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Table 1] Table 1 (participation statistics): add the exact number of test scenes and the train/validation/test split ratios for reproducibility.
  2. [Figure 3] Figure 3 (qualitative results): include failure cases alongside success examples to balance the visual assessment of top methods.

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We thank the referee for the thorough and constructive feedback on our manuscript. We have carefully considered each major comment and provide point-by-point responses below, indicating where revisions will be made to strengthen the paper.

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  1. Referee: [§4] §4 (Results and Evaluation): the claim of 'significant progress' over baselines is stated without accompanying quantitative metrics, error bars, statistical tests, or per-scene breakdowns; the abstract and summary sections alone do not allow verification of the magnitude or consistency of improvement.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the high-level claims in the abstract require supporting details for verification. The full manuscript contains comprehensive tables in §4 reporting quantitative metrics such as PSNR, SSIM, and Chamfer distance for all 33 submissions against baselines. To fully address this concern, we will revise §4 to include error bars from multiple evaluation runs, statistical tests for significance, and per-scene performance breakdowns. This will substantiate the 'significant progress' claim with verifiable evidence. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§5] §5 (Analysis of Design Principles): the post-hoc categorization of shared strategies (fusion, denoising, depth priors) is presented descriptively; no ablation studies on RealX3D are reported that isolate each principle's contribution while controlling for benchmark-specific artifacts such as synthetic smoke density or fixed trajectories.

    Authors: The categorization in §5 is based on a systematic review of the top-performing submissions' technical reports and their relative rankings on the RealX3D benchmark. Performing exhaustive ablations for each principle would necessitate re-implementing and evaluating numerous complex pipelines, which exceeds the typical scope of a challenge results paper. Nevertheless, we will add a new analysis subsection with targeted ablations on representative top methods, controlling for factors like smoke density and trajectory variations where possible, to provide more rigorous support for the identified principles. revision: partial

  3. Referee: [§3] §3 (RealX3D Benchmark): the capture protocol and degradation statistics are summarized but lack explicit comparison (e.g., KL divergence or perceptual metrics) to uncontrolled field data, leaving open the risk that top-method commonalities reflect benchmark idiosyncrasies rather than transferable robustness.

    Authors: RealX3D is constructed from real-world captures in low-light and smoke conditions with accurate ground-truth 3D data obtained via controlled setups. While we did not include direct distributional comparisons such as KL divergence to additional uncontrolled field datasets in the original submission, we will expand §3 with a discussion of the benchmark's alignment to real adverse conditions, including references to perceptual studies and domain adaptation literature. We note that acquiring and statistically comparing to new uncontrolled field data would require substantial additional resources and is not feasible for this revision cycle. revision: partial

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The paper is a competition results report that presents empirical evaluations of 33 submitted methods on the RealX3D benchmark, compares them to baselines, and offers descriptive observations on shared design principles. No mathematical derivations, first-principles predictions, fitted parameters renamed as outputs, or self-citation chains appear in the text. All claims rest on external submissions and measured performance metrics rather than internal definitions or reductions. This is a standard, self-contained empirical summary with no load-bearing circular steps.

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