NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Bitstream-Corrupted Video Restoration: Methods and Results
It addresses the emerging problem of video restoration under realistic bitstream corruption for researchers and practitioners in video processing.
This paper reports on the NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Bitstream-Corrupted Video Restoration, which tackled the problem of recovering visually coherent videos from corrupted bitstreams that cause severe artifacts and distortion, and summarized results and technical trends from participating methods.
This paper reports on the NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Bitstream-Corrupted Video Restoration (BSCVR). The challenge aims to advance research on recovering visually coherent videos from corrupted bitstreams, whose decoding often produces severe spatial-temporal artifacts and content distortion. Built upon recent progress in bitstream-corrupted video recovery, the challenge provides a common benchmark for evaluating restoration methods under realistic corruption settings. We describe the dataset, evaluation protocol, and participating methods, and summarize the final results and main technical trends. The challenge highlights the difficulty of this emerging task and provides useful insights for future research on robust video restoration under practical bitstream corruption.