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Training a high-performance deep neural network requires large amounts of data and computational resources. Protecting the intellectual property (IP) and commercial ownership of a deep model is challenging yet increasingly crucial. A major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Shuyang Yu , Junyuan Hong , Haobo Zhang , Haotao Wang , Zhangyang Wang , Jiayu Zhou

The personalization techniques of diffusion models succeed in generating images with specific concepts. This ability also poses great threats to copyright protection and network security since malicious users can generate unauthorized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Liangqi Lei , Keke Gai , Jing Yu , Liehuang Zhu , Qi Wu

The proliferation of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) in commercial applications is expanding rapidly. Simultaneously, the increasing complexity and cost of training DNN models have intensified the urgency surrounding the protection of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Junlong Mao , Huiyi Tang , Yi Zhang , Fengxia Liu , Zhiyong Zheng , Shanxiang Lyu

High-fidelity text-to-image diffusion models have revolutionized visual content generation, but their widespread use raises significant ethical concerns, including intellectual property protection and the misuse of synthetic media. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yunzhuo Chen , Naveed Akhtar , Nur Al Hasan Haldar , Ajmal Mian

Ownership verification for neural networks is important for protecting these models from illegal copying, free-riding, re-distribution and other intellectual property misuse. We present a novel methodology for neural network ownership…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Feisi Fu , Wenchao Li

With the rise of Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) platforms,safeguarding the intellectual property of deep learning models is becoming paramount. Among various protective measures, trigger set watermarking has emerged as a flexible and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Hongyu Zhu , Sichu Liang , Wentao Hu , Fangqi Li , Ju Jia , Shilin Wang

In this paper, we propose a novel framework for ownership verification of deep neural network (DNN) models for image classification tasks. It allows verification of model identity by both the rightful owner and third party without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Teruki Sano , Minoru Kuribayashi , Masao Sakai , Shuji Isobe , Eisuke Koizumi

The training of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) is costly, thus DNN can be considered as the intellectual properties (IP) of model owners. To date, most of the existing protection works focus on verifying the ownership after the DNN model is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Mingfu Xue , Shichang Sun , Can He , Yushu Zhang , Jian Wang , Weiqiang Liu

As diffusion models (DMs) enable photorealistic image generation at unprecedented scale, watermarking techniques have become essential for provenance establishment and accountability. Existing methods face challenges: sampling-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hong-Hanh Nguyen-Le , Van-Tuan Tran , Thuc D. Nguyen , Nhien-An Le-Khac

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved tremendous success in many tasks of machine learning, such as the image classification. Unfortunately, researchers have shown that DNNs are easily attacked by adversarial examples, slightly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Yujia Liu , Weiming Zhang , Shaohua Li , Nenghai Yu

Protecting deep neural networks (DNNs) against intellectual property (IP) infringement has attracted an increasing attention in recent years. Recent advances focus on IP protection of generative models, which embed the watermark information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Li Zhang , Yong Liu , Xinpeng Zhang , Hanzhou Wu

Robust invisible watermarking aims to embed hidden information into images such that the watermark can survive various image manipulations. However, the rise of powerful diffusion-based image generation and editing techniques poses a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yunyi Ni , Finn Carter , Ze Niu , Emily Davis , Bo Zhang

Watermarking has become one of promising techniques to not only aid in identifying AI-generated images but also serve as a deterrent against the unethical use of these models. However, the robustness of watermarking techniques has not been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xiaodong Wu , Xiangman Li , Jianbing Ni

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are valuable intellectual property, yet many watermarks rely on backdoor triggers that break under common model edits and create ownership ambiguity. We present InvGNN-WM, which ties ownership to a model's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Jipeng Li , Yannning Shen

To trace the copyright of deep neural networks, an owner can embed its identity information into its model as a watermark. The capacity of the watermark quantify the maximal volume of information that can be verified from the watermarked…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Fangqi Li , Haodong Zhao , Wei Du , Shilin Wang

Watermarking diffusion-generated images is crucial for copyright protection and user tracking. However, current diffusion watermarking methods face significant limitations: zero-bit watermarking systems lack the capacity for large-scale…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Jiazheng Xing , Hai Ci , Hongbin Xu , Hangjie Yuan , Yong Liu , Mike Zheng Shou

We propose a novel multi-bit box-free watermarking method for the protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of GANs with improved robustness against white-box attacks like fine-tuning, pruning, quantization, and surrogate model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Jianwei Fei , Zhihua Xia , Benedetta Tondi , Mauro Barni

The protection of intellectual property has become critical due to the rapid growth of three-dimensional content in digital media. Unlike traditional images or videos, 3D point clouds present unique challenges for copyright enforcement, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Khandoker Ashik Uz Zaman , Mohammad Zahangir Alam , Mohammed N. M. Ali , Mahdi H. Miraz

Many learning tasks require us to deal with graph data which contains rich relational information among elements, leading increasing graph neural network (GNN) models to be deployed in industrial products for improving the quality of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Xiangyu Zhao , Hanzhou Wu , Xinpeng Zhang

Adoption of machine learning models across industries have turned Neural Networks (DNNs) into a prized Intellectual Property (IP), which needs to be protected from being stolen or being used without authorization. This topic gave rise to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yi Hao Puah , Anh Tu Ngo , Nandish Chattopadhyay , Anupam Chattopadhyay