Fused DINOv3 features enable fast, faithful real-world image super-resolution

RAESR restores images in a frozen vision model’s latent space, outperforming a matched VAE-based system and improving benchmark trade-offs between fidelity, perceptual quality and speed.

Chinese Tech
Wanzhou Lei · Cuifeng Sheng · Yanjin He · Maohua Li · Hua Yuan · Per-Olof Persson · +1 more

University of California, Berkeley · Alibaba Group · University of Michigan, Ann Arbor · Nanjing University · Southeast University

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Lei and colleagues treat super-resolution as a mapping from degraded image features back toward the features of clean, natural images.

The authors encoded degraded images using a frozen DINOv3-L vision transformer and averaged features from 23 layers.

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From Alibaba Group and 4 others

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Super-resolution achieves best fidelity-perception trade-off when performed in the frozen fused latent space of DINOv3-L.

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