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Super-Resolution in The Right Latent Space: A Frozen Vision-Foundation Substrate
In an image latent space, the embeddings of high-resolution, natural, and sharp images form a manifold. Degradation of high-resolution images pushes their embeddings off this manifold. Real-world super-resolution (SR) then becomes the task of mapping the degraded embedding back onto this manifold --- not anywhere on th …