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Generative models have seen an explosion in popularity with the release of huge generative Diffusion models like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion to the public. Because of this new ease of access, questions surrounding the automated…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Luke Ditria , Tom Drummond

The rapid emergence of generative image models has led to the development of specialized watermarking techniques, particularly in-generation methods such as seed-based embedding. However, current evaluations in this area remain largely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Enoal Gesny , Eva Giboulot

Text-to-image diffusion models, e.g. Stable Diffusion (SD), lately have shown remarkable ability in high-quality content generation, and become one of the representatives for the recent wave of transformative AI. Nevertheless, such advance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Zhi-Yi Chin , Chieh-Ming Jiang , Ching-Chun Huang , Pin-Yu Chen , Wei-Chen Chiu

The widespread deployment of high-fidelity generative models has intensified the need for reliable mechanisms for provenance and content authentication. In-processing watermarking, embedding a signature into the generative model's synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Anirudh Nakra , Min Wu

Recent fine-tuning techniques for diffusion models enable them to reproduce specific image sets, such as particular faces or artistic styles, but also introduce copyright and security risks. Dataset watermarking has been proposed to ensure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xincheng Wang , Hanchi Sun , Wenjun Sun , Kejun Xue , Wangqiu Zhou , Jianbo Zhang , Wei Sun , Dandan Zhu , Xiongkuo Min , Jun Jia , Zhijun Fang

Text-to-image generative models, especially those based on latent diffusion models (LDMs), have demonstrated outstanding ability in generating high-quality and high-resolution images from textual prompts. With this advancement, various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yingqian Cui , Jie Ren , Yuping Lin , Han Xu , Pengfei He , Yue Xing , Lingjuan Lyu , Wenqi Fan , Hui Liu , Jiliang Tang

We propose SERUM: an intriguingly simple yet highly effective method for marking images generated by diffusion models (DMs). We only add a unique watermark noise to the initial diffusion generation noise and train a lightweight detector to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jan Kociszewski , Hubert Jastrzębski , Tymoteusz Stępkowski , Filip Manijak , Krzysztof Rojek , Franziska Boenisch , Adam Dziedzic

The rapid advancement of text-to-image generation systems, exemplified by models like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, Imagen, and DALL-E, has heightened concerns about their potential misuse. In response, companies like Meta and Google have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Niyar R Barman , Krish Sharma , Ashhar Aziz , Shashwat Bajpai , Shwetangshu Biswas , Vasu Sharma , Vinija Jain , Aman Chadha , Amit Sheth , Amitava Das

Watermarking embeds information into digital content like images, audio, or text, imperceptible to humans but robustly detectable by specific algorithms. This technology has important applications in many challenges of the industry such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Pierre Fernandez

The ethical need to protect AI-generated content has been a significant concern in recent years. While existing watermarking strategies have demonstrated success in detecting synthetic content (detection), there has been limited exploration…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Rui Min , Sen Li , Hongyang Chen , Minhao Cheng

Text-to-image models have recently made significant advances in generating realistic and semantically coherent images, driven by advanced diffusion models and large-scale web-crawled datasets. However, these datasets often contain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Byeonghu Na , Mina Kang , Jiseok Kwak , Minsang Park , Jiwoo Shin , SeJoon Jun , Gayoung Lee , Jin-Hwa Kim , Il-Chul Moon

Diffusion-based methods can generate realistic images and videos, but they struggle to edit existing objects in a video while preserving their appearance over time. This prevents diffusion models from being applied to natural video editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Wenhao Chai , Xun Guo , Gaoang Wang , Yan Lu

In practical application, the widespread deployment of diffusion models often necessitates substantial investment in training. As diffusion models find increasingly diverse applications, concerns about potential misuse highlight the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Jijia Yang , Sen Peng , Xiaohua Jia

Background: Text-to-image generation models are widely used across numerous domains. Among these models, Stable Diffusion (SD) - an open-source text-to-image generation model - has become the most popular, producing over 12 billion images…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Giordano d'Aloisio , Tosin Fadahunsi , Jay Choy , Rebecca Moussa , Federica Sarro

Diffusion models generate high-quality images but pose serious risks like copyright violation and disinformation. Watermarking is a key defense for tracing and authenticating AI-generated content. However, existing methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yi Zhang , Hongbo Huang , Liang-Jie Zhang

The great success of the diffusion model in image synthesis led to the release of gigantic commercial models, raising the issue of copyright protection and inappropriate content generation. Training-free diffusion watermarking provides a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Po-Yuan Mao , Cheng-Chang Tsai , Chun-Shien Lu

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

In recent years, methods for producing highly realistic synthetic images have significantly advanced, allowing the creation of high-quality images from text prompts that describe the desired content. Even more impressively, Stable Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Sara Mandelli , Paolo Bestagini , Stefano Tubaro

Diffusion models have revolutionized the field of content synthesis and editing. Recent models have replaced the traditional UNet architecture with the Diffusion Transformer (DiT), and employed flow-matching for improved training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Omri Avrahami , Or Patashnik , Ohad Fried , Egor Nemchinov , Kfir Aberman , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or

Due to the high potential for abuse of GenAI systems, the task of detecting synthetic images has recently become of great interest to the research community. Unfortunately, existing image-space detectors quickly become obsolete as new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 George Cazenavette , Avneesh Sud , Thomas Leung , Ben Usman