Night Photography Rendering and Illumination Estimation Challenges

Final Results Released!

Dear participants,
We are excited to share the final results of the 2025 Night Photography Rendering Challenge.

A total of 10 submissions were received by the deadline. All of the submissions outperformed the baseline solution in both objective metrics and perceptual quality and thus will be included in the report.

Objective metric evaluation

The winners of objective metric evaluation category are:

The detailed results are presented below.

TeamSSIM SSIMRank PSNR PSNRRank Final Score 
NJUST_KMG   0.810  1 23.82 1 1.0
Mialgo 0.799 2 23.06 2 2.0
PSU Team 0.774 3 22.21 3 3.0
psykhexx 0.771 4 21.69 4 4.0
POLYU-AISP 0.758 6 21.23 5 5.6
sorange 0.760 5 20.91 7 5.8
NoTeam 0.722 7 21.22 6 6.6
AITH_ITMO 0.718 8 20.58 8 8.0
colab 0.656 9 19.15 9 9.0
OzU-VGL 0.640 10 17.18 10 10.0
Baseline 0.386   9.55    

Perceptual quality evaluation

The winners of perceptual quality evaluation category are:

The detailed results are presented below.

TeamScore 
Mialgo 128.49 
NJUST_KMG   123.73
PSU Team 116.60
psykhexx 106.43
POLYU-AISP 101.44
sorange 95.65
AITH_ITMO 73.68
colab 64.14
NoTeam 58.58
OzU-VGL 35.56
Baseline 6.53

The winners will be informed on how to receive their prizes in the upcoming days.

We sincerely congratulate the winners and thank all teams for participating in our challenge. We wish you the best of luck in all your future endeavors.

Best regards,
The NTIRE Night Photography Rendering Challenge Team