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Think Before You Restore: Risk-Aware Manchu Manuscript Restoration with Stroke-Guided Attention
Full-page blind restoration of historical Manchu manuscripts is challenging due to scarce annotations, unknown degradation regions, and fragile connected strokes. Generic restoration models may improve visual quality but often modify intact content, leading to over-restoration. We propose SAGE-Restore (Stroke-Aware Gat …