AI RESEARCH

Faithful Extreme Image Rescaling with Learnable Reversible Transformation and Semantic Priors

arXiv CS.CV

ArXi:2605.00605v1 Announce Type: new Most recent extreme rescaling methods struggle to preserve semantically consistent structures and produce realistic details, due to the severely ill-posed nature of low- to high-resolution mapping under scaling factors of $16\times$ or higher. To alleviate the above problems, we propose FaithEIR, a diffusion-based framework for extreme image rescaling. Inspired by singular value decomposition, we develop learnable reversible transformation that enables invertible downscaling and upscaling in the latent space.