LoViF @ CVPR 2026

The 1st Workshop on

Low-Level Vision
Frontiers

with Generative AI Preference Optimization Agentic Systems

Join us to explore the AGI-oriented future where generative models, reward learning, and autonomous agents redefine low-level vision.

LOVIF
LoViF
[Low-Level Vision Frontiers]
Program

Workshop Program

The official LoViF @ CVPR 2026 workshop program will feature invited talks, oral paper presentations, poster discussions, challenge award announcements, and certificate information. ((poster session needs to wait the arrangement of workshop chairs)

Date: June 4th, 2026, AM   |   Venue: Room 504, Colorado Convention Center, Denver, USA   |   Time Zone: Mountain Time, MT

Time Session Speaker / Presenter
08:20 – 08:30 Opening Remarks Welcome and introduction to LoViF 2026 Workshop Organizers
08:30 – 08:35 Oral Presentation Session I π-Diff: Physically-Inspired Low-Light Image Enhancement with Structure Preserving Diffusion Priors Recorded Videos by Min Wang, Northwestern Polytechnical University
08:35 – 08:40 Oral Presentation Session I PyrLight: Laplacian-Pyramid-Guided Conditional Diffusion for Detail-Preserving and Artifact-Free Low-Light Enhancement Recorded Videos by Mingfu Yan, Southeast University
08:40 – 08:50 Oral Presentation Session I Controllable Image Generation with Composed Parallel Token Prediction Jamie Stirling, Durham University
08:50 – 09:00 Oral Presentation Session I Don’t Waste Bits! Adaptive KV-Cache Quantization for Lightweight On-Device LLMs Sayed Pedram Haeri, Clemson University
09:00 – 09:30 Invited Talk 1 Invited speaker talk Prof. Dimitris Samaras Stony Brook University
09:30 – 10:00 Invited Talk 2 Invited speaker talk Prof. Robby T. Tan NUS
10:00 – 10:10 Coffee Break Poster Session (you can have the poster between 9:30 AM and 12:00 AM. The length for it is not limited) Poster Session
10:10 – 10:20 Oral Presentation Session II Towards Unified Image Deblurring using a Mixture-of-Experts Decoder Marcos V. Conde, University of Würzburg & CIDAUT
10:20 – 10:30 Oral Presentation Session II Generative Panoramic Image Stitching Mathieu Tuli, Meta
10:30 – 11:00 Invited Talk 3 Invited speaker talk Dr. Yuyang Hu Research Scientist at Google
11:00 – 11:30 Invited Talk 4 Invited speaker talk Prof. Michael S. Brown York University
11:30 – 11:40 Oral Presentation Session III EvoRender: An Agentic AI -- Neural Rendering Algorithm Discovery Matai, Janarbek, AMD
11:40 – 12:00 Oral Presentation Session III Oral presentations 4–12, 5 minutes per presentation Challenge Reports
12:00 – 12:20 Challenge Awards, Certificates & Closing Remarks Challenge award announcements, certificate information, and closing remarks Workshop Organizers

Each invited talk is scheduled for 30 minutes. Each oral presentation is scheduled for 6 minutes. The coffee break will be held together with the poster session. Challenge award announcements and certificate details will be updated after confirmation from challenge organizers and winning teams.

Speakers

Invited Speakers

We are honored to invite leading researchers from academia and industry to share their insights at the workshop.

Accepted Works

Accepted Works

The following works have been accepted to LoViF @ CVPR 2026. Accepted papers and challenge reports are listed separately. Papers selected for oral presentation are marked with an “Oral Presentation” badge.

Accepted Papers

Accepted Papers

Paper 01 (Poster board 342, exhibit hall) Accepted Paper

FlowDet: Unifying Object Detection and Generative Transport Flows

Paper 02 (Poster board 342, exhibit hall) Accepted Paper

Controllable Image Generation with Composed Parallel Token Prediction

Oral Presentation
Paper 03 (Poster board 343, exhibit hall) Accepted Paper

Leveraging Contrast Priors for Mask-Free Shadow Removal

Paper 04 (Poster board 343, exhibit hall) Accepted Paper

FlowISP: Latent Space ISP Transfer via Conditional Flow Matching

Paper 05 (Poster board 344, exhibit hall) Accepted Paper

RewardSDS: Aligning Score Distillation via Reward-Weighted Sampling

Paper 06 (Poster board 344, exhibit hall) Accepted Paper

PyrLight: Laplacian-Pyramid-Guided Conditional Diffusion for Detail-Preserving and Artifact-Free Low-Light Enhancement

Oral Presentation
Paper 07 (Poster board 345, exhibit hall) Accepted Paper

EvoRender: An Agentic AI for Neural Rendering Algorithm Discovery

Oral Presentation
Paper 08 (Poster board 345, exhibit hall) Accepted Paper

Towards Unified Image Deblurring using a Mixture-of-Experts Decoder

Oral Presentation
Paper 09 (Poster board 346, exhibit hall) Accepted Paper

DeGrainVAR: Film Grain Removal with Visual AutoRegressive Modeling

Paper 10 (Poster board 346, exhibit hall) Accepted Paper

Generative Anonymization in Event Streams

Paper 11 (Poster board 347, exhibit hall) Accepted Paper

Generative Panoramic Image Stitching

Oral Presentation
Paper 12 (Poster board 347, exhibit hall) Accepted Paper

Don’t Waste Bits! Adaptive KV-Cache Quantization for Lightweight On-Device LLMs

Oral Presentation
Paper 13 (Poster board 348, exhibit hall) Accepted Paper

WDiff-VDI: Wavelet-Domain Video Diffusion for Temporally Consistent Deinterlacing

Paper 14 (Poster board 348, exhibit hall) Accepted Paper

Semantic-Guided Retinex Learning for Zero-Reference Enhancement of Real-World Low-Light Driving Scenes

Paper 15 (Poster board 349, exhibit hall) Accepted Paper

EF3Net: Efficient-fusion Focal Frequency Network for Temporally Coherent Video Weather Removal

Paper 16 (Poster board 349, exhibit hall) Accepted Paper

π-Diff: Physically-Inspired Low-Light Image Enhancement with Structure Preserving Diffusion Priors

Oral Presentation
Paper 17 (Poster board 350, exhibit hall) Accepted Paper

Escaping the Temporal Trap: A Space-First Paradigm for Few-Shot Video Weather Removal

Paper 18 (Poster board 350, exhibit hall) Accepted Paper

QFS-IQA: Quantization-Aware Few-Shot Image Quality Assessment for AI-Generated Images via Q-Shot Sensitivity Calibration

Paper 19 (Poster board 351, exhibit hall) Accepted Paper

Bounded-Compute Multimodal Regression for Product-Rating Prediction

Paper 20 (Poster board 351, exhibit hall) Accepted Paper

EffiMiniVLM: A Compact Dual-Encoder Regression Framework for Multimodal Product Quality Scoring

Challenge Reports

Challenge Reports

Challenge Report 01 Challenge Report

LoViF 2026 Challenge on Real-World All-in-One Image Restoration: Methods and Results

Challenge Report 02 Challenge Report

LoViF 2026 The First Challenge on Human-Oriented Semantic Image Quality Assessment: Methods and Results

Challenge Report 03 Challenge Report

The 1st LoViF Challenge on Efficient VLM for Multimodal Creative Quality Scoring: Methods and Results

Challenge Report 04 Challenge Report

LoViF 2026 The First Challenge on Holistic Quality Assessment for 4D World Model (PhyScore)

Challenge Report 05 Challenge Report

LoViF 2026 The First Challenge on Weather Removal in Videos

Papers selected for oral presentation are marked with an “Oral Presentation” badge. Challenge Reports are also Oral Presentation Other accepted papers and challenge reports will be presented during the accepted works poster session. The final presentation order and additional materials will be updated later.

Awards

Awards & Certificates

The official award certificates for LoViF @ CVPR 2026 workshop challenges are available below. Participants may preview and download certificates by challenge category.

Certificate Preview

Real-world All-in-One Image Restoration Challenge

This preview displays only the certificates for the selected challenge category.

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3 certificates

Real-world All-in-One Image Restoration Challenge

Winner Award · Second Place Award · Third Place Award

Award certificates for the Real-world All-in-One Image Restoration Challenge.

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3 certificates

Challenge on Weather Removal in Videos

Winner Award · Second Place Award · Third Place Award

Award certificates for the Challenge on Weather Removal in Videos.

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4 certificates

Challenge on Efficient VLM for Multimodal Ad Creative Quality Scoring

Winner Award · Second Place Award · Third Place Award

Award certificates for the Efficient VLM for Multimodal Ad Creative Quality Scoring Challenge.

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4 certificates

Human-oriented Semantic Image Quality Assessment Challenge

Winner Award · Second Place Award · Third Place Award · Honorable Mention Award

Award certificates for the Human-oriented Semantic Image Quality Assessment Challenge.

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3 certificates

Holistic Quality Assessment for 4D World Model Challenge

Winner Award · Second Place Award · Third Place Award

Award certificates for the Holistic Quality Assessment for 4D World Model Challenge.

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2 certificates

Challenge on Short-form UGC Video Restoration in the Wild with Generative Models (Objective Track)

Objective Track · Winner Award · Runner-Up Award

Award certificates for the Objective Track of the Short-form UGC Video Restoration Challenge (Objective Track).

Certificate Information

  • The certificates are issued for LoViF @ CVPR 2026 workshop challenges.
  • Each preview file contains only the certificates for the selected challenge category.
  • Please use the download button to obtain the official certificate PDF for each challenge.

Call for Papers

We invite submissions on topics bridging low-level vision with AGI trends. The submission follows the template of CVPR2026 and does not exceed 8 pages (not including references)

Generative Models for Visual Processing

Low-level vision (e.g. restoration, enhancement, compression, perception) with visual autoregressive modeling (VAR), diffusion models, and GAN...; Low-level vision for AI-generated contents (AIGC images/videos and others);...

Reward Models & Preference Optimization in Visual Processing

Explainable quality assessment and reward models for generation or processing; Preference optimization (e.g., DPO, GRPO) for visual processing and perception; ...

Agentic Systems for Interactive Low-Level Vision

Human-machine interaction theory in visual processing; Low-level agentic systems with LLMs/LVMs; Universal framework design; ...

Compact and Informative Low-level Representation

Latent compression/Cache/Acceleration/Quantization/sparse attention for representation, visual signal generation or low-level processing; Low-level token compression and visual tokenizer; ...

Low-level Vision for Machine Tasks

Data coding, streaming, and visual processing for machine and intelligent tasks, such as large foundation models (LVMs), autonomous vehicles, robotics, or UAVs...

Low-level Vision in World Models

3D/4D (gaussian splatting, Nerf, point cloud...) compression, reconstruction/generation, audio-visual benchmark, editing, gaussian splatting, world model evaluation, rendering \& simulation pipelines...

LLMs & Multi-modal LLMs for Low-level Tasks

Multi-modal low-level visual signal processing, compression and related instruction tuning, prompt techniques and zero/few-shot in-context learning...

Ethics & Social Impact for Generative Low-level Vision

Ethical and impacts of generative low-level vision, including privacy in agentic systems, safety and robustness for downstream tasks, and impacts in healthcare and biomedical imaging...

LoViF 2026 Challenges

Participate in our challenge tracks.

CHALLENGE START Feb 6, 2026
01

The First Challenge on Real-World All-in-One Image Restoration

Establishing a new benchmark for complex real-world degradations, this challenge evaluates all-in-one restoration through both quantitative metrics and visual quality.

Organization: EntroVision Join Competition
02

The Challenge on Efficient VLM for Multimodal Creative Quality Scoring

Tasked with predicting product ratings from images, videos, and text, this challenge focuses on developing lightweight, high-performance VLMs for real-world creative quality assessment.

Organization: Snap Inc. & NTU & SYSU Join Competition
03

The First Challenge on Semantic Quality Assessment

This competition aims to facilitate a reliable semantic quality assessment benchmark, which is more deeply aligned with human semantic understanding, intending to promote future research on semantics-oriented visual coding, transmission, and processing, .

Organization: USTC & EMERGETECH Join Competition
04

The First Challenge on Holistic Quality Assessment for 4D World Model

This competition aims to introduce a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating the physical reasonableness of videos generated by world models (including 2D、3D and 4D generation models).

Organization: USTC & EIT & Tsinghua Join Competition
05

The Challenge on Weather Removal in Videos

This challenge focuses on video restoration under complex weather conditions, emphasizing temporal consistency and robustness through the integration of physical priors and temporal reasoning.

Organization: Leeds & Tencent & USTC Join Competition

Important Dates

Dec 28, 2025

Paper Submission Open

OpenReview opens

TBD

Challenge Submission Open

Challenge tracks open

Mar 12, 2026

Paper Submission Deadline

Deadline (AoE)

Mar 25, 2026

Acceptance Notification

Decisions sent

Organizing Team

Main Organizers

Xin Li

Xin Li

USTC

Yeying Jin

Yeying Jin

Tencent

Lanqing Guo

Lanqing Guo

UT Austin

Bihan Wen

Bihan Wen

NTU

Jian Wang

Jian Wang

Snap Research

Sina Alemohammad

Sina Alemohammad

UT Austin

Xinchao Wang

Xinchao Wang

NUS

Kun Yuan

Kun Yuan

Kuaishou

Zhibo Chen

Zhibo Chen

USTC

Weiping Li

Weiping Li

USTC

Robby T. Tan

Robby T. Tan

NUS

Elisa Ricci

Elisa Ricci

Univ. of Trento

Michael S. Brown

Michael S. Brown

York Univ.

Challenge Organizers/Co-Organizers(TBD)

Xiang Chen

Xiang Chen

EntroVision

Hao Li

Hao Li

EntroVision

Hao Li

Jusheng Zhang

NTU

Qinhan Lyu

Qinhan Lyu

SYSU

Yongsen Zheng

Yongsen Zheng

NTU

Keze Wang

Keze Wang

SYSU

YuLiu

Yu Liu

HFUT

Haocheng Qian

Chenghao Qian

Leeds

ShangquanSun

Shangquan Sun

NTU

Daoli Xu

Daoli Xu

EMERGETECH

Yiting Lu

Yiting Lu

USTC

Xin Jin

Xin Jin

EIT

Chen Gao

Chen Gao

Tsinghua

Yong Li

Yong Li

Tsinghua

Program Committee

// To Be Determined (TBD)