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Watermarking is a commonly used strategy to protect creators' rights to digital images, videos and audio. Recently, watermarking methods have been extended to deep learning models -- in principle, the watermark should be preserved when an…

Digital watermarking enables protection against copyright infringement of images. Although existing methods embed watermarks imperceptibly and demonstrate robustness against attacks, they typically lack resilience against geometric…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Hannes Mareen , Lucas Antchougov , Glenn Van Wallendael , Peter Lambert

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

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Yunyi Ni , Ziyu Yang , Ze Niu , Emily Davis , Finn Carter

Screen-shooting robust watermarking aims to imperceptibly embed extractable information into host images such that the watermark survives the complex distortion pipeline of screen display and camera recapture. However, achieving high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jiayi Qin , Jingwei Li , Chuan Wu

As AI advances, copyrighted content faces growing risk of unauthorized use, whether through model training or direct misuse. Building upon invisible adversarial perturbation, recent works developed copyright protections against specific AI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Tianci Liu , Tong Yang , Quan Zhang , Qi Lei

Fine-tuning attacks are effective in removing the embedded watermarks in deep learning models. However, when the source data is unavailable, it is challenging to just erase the watermark without jeopardizing the model performance. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Qi Zhong , Leo Yu Zhang , Shengshan Hu , Longxiang Gao , Jun Zhang , Yong Xiang

The current work is focusing on the implementation of a robust watermarking algorithm for digital images, which is based on an innovative spread spectrum analysis algorithm for watermark embedding and on a content-based image retrieval…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Dimitrios K. Tsolis , Spyros Sioutas , Theodore S. Papatheodorou

This paper presents techniques for digital image watermarking based on eigenvalue decomposition of normal matrices. The introduced methods are convenient and self-explanatory, achieve satisfactory results, as well as require less and easy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-08 E. Kokabifar , G. B. Loghmani , A. Latif

Digital image watermarking seeks to protect the digital media information from unauthorized access, where the message is embedded into the digital image and extracted from it, even some noises or distortions are applied under various data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Hong-Bo Xu , Rong Wang , Jia Wei , Shao-Ping Lu

Deep convolutional neural networks have made outstanding contributions in many fields such as computer vision in the past few years and many researchers published well-trained network for downloading. But recent studies have shown serious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Xiquan Guan , Huamin Feng , Weiming Zhang , Hang Zhou , Jie Zhang , Nenghai Yu

As the quality of image generators continues to improve, deepfakes become a topic of considerable societal debate. Image watermarking allows responsible model owners to detect and label their AI-generated content, which can mitigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Kasra Arabi , Benjamin Feuer , R. Teal Witter , Chinmay Hegde , Niv Cohen

With the rapid development of deep neural networks(DNNs), many robust blind watermarking algorithms and frameworks have been proposed and achieved good results. At present, the watermark attack algorithm can not compete with the watermark…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Xinyu Li

Imperceptible digital watermarking is important in copyright protection, misinformation prevention, and responsible generative AI. We propose TrustMark - a GAN-based watermarking method with novel design in architecture and spatio-spectra…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Tu Bui , Shruti Agarwal , John Collomosse

Data-driven deep learning approaches to image registration can be less accurate than conventional iterative approaches, especially when training data is limited. To address this whilst retaining the fast inference speed of deep learning, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xi Jia , Alexander Thorley , Wei Chen , Huaqi Qiu , Linlin Shen , Iain B Styles , Hyung Jin Chang , Ales Leonardis , Antonio de Marvao , Declan P. O'Regan , Daniel Rueckert , Jinming Duan

Robust invisible watermarking aims to embed hidden messages into images such that they survive various manipulations while remaining imperceptible. However, powerful diffusion-based image generation and editing models now enable realistic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Wenkai Fu , Finn Carter , Yue Wang , Emily Davis , Bo Zhang

This paper focuses on investigation of confidential documents leaks in the form of screen photographs. Proposed approach does not try to prevent leak in the first place but rather aims to determine source of the leak. Method works by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Aleksey Yakushev , Yury Markin , Dmitry Obydenkov , Alexander Frolov , Stas Fomin , Manuk Akopyan , Alexander Kozachok , Arthur Gaynov

DNN-based watermarking methods are rapidly developing and delivering impressive performances. Recent advances achieve resolution-agnostic image watermarking by reducing the variant resolution watermarking problem to a fixed resolution…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yuchen Wang , Xingyu Zhu , Guanhui Ye , Shiyao Zhang , Xuetao Wei

Due to costly efforts during data acquisition and model training, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) belong to the intellectual property of the model creator. Hence, unauthorized use, theft, or modification may lead to legal repercussions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Torsten Krauß , Jasper Stang , Alexandra Dmitrienko

Video Watermarking serves as a new technology mainly used to provide security to the illegal distribution of digital video over the web. The purpose of any video watermarking scheme is to embed extra information into video in such a way…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2014-04-30 T. Srinivasa Rao , Rajasekhar R. Kurra

We present a deep neural network based method for the retrieval of watermarks from images of 3D printed objects. To deal with the variability of all possible 3D printing and image acquisition settings we train the network with synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Xin Zhang , Ning Jia , Ioannis Ivrissimtzis