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The NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Bitstream-Corrupted Video Restoration (BSCVR) was conducted to benchmark methods for recovering videos from corrupted bitstreams exhibiting spatial-temporal artifacts. The challenge provided a dataset and evaluation protocol for assessing restoration methods under realistic corruption. Results highlighted the difficulty of the task and identified key technical trends in robust video restoration.
Bitstream-corrupted video restoration remains a significant challenge, even with recent advances, as revealed by the NTIRE 2026 challenge results.
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.
