Watermark Overwriting Attack on StegaStamp algorithm
Cryptography and Security
2025-05-06 v1 Artificial Intelligence
Abstract
This paper presents an attack method on the StegaStamp watermarking algorithm that completely removes watermarks from an image with minimal quality loss, developed as part of the NeurIPS "Erasing the invisible" competition.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2505.01474,
title = {Watermark Overwriting Attack on StegaStamp algorithm},
author = {I. F. Serzhenko and L. A. Khaertdinova and M. A. Pautov and A. V. Antsiferova},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.01474},
year = {2025}
}
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