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Ensuring robustness in image watermarking is crucial for and maintaining content integrity under diverse transformations. Recent self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches, such as DINO, have been leveraged for watermarking but primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Muhammad Ahtesham , Xin Zhong

Existing learning-based stereo image codec adopt sophisticated transformation with simple entropy models derived from single image codecs to encode latent representations. However, those entropy models struggle to effectively capture the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Xinjie Zhang , Shenyuan Gao , Zhening Liu , Jiawei Shao , Xingtong Ge , Dailan He , Tongda Xu , Yan Wang , Jun Zhang

Learned image compression (LIC) is currently the cutting-edge method. However, the inherent difference between testing and training images of LIC results in performance degradation to some extent. Especially for out-of-sample,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Honggui Li , Sinan Chen , Dingtai Li , Zhengyang Zhang , Nahid Md Lokman Hossain , Xinfeng Xu , Yinlu Qin , Ruobing Wang , Maria Trocan , Dimitri Galayko , Amara Amara , Mohamad Sawan

With the evolution of storage and communication protocols, ultra-low bitrate image compression has become a highly demanding topic. However, existing compression algorithms must sacrifice either consistency with the ground truth or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Chunyi Li , Guo Lu , Donghui Feng , Haoning Wu , Zicheng Zhang , Xiaohong Liu , Guangtao Zhai , Weisi Lin , Wenjun Zhang

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…

Learned image compression (LIC) has shown great promise for achieving high rate-distortion performance. However, current LIC methods are often limited in their capability to model the complex correlation structures inherent in natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Zhineng Zhao , Zhihai He , Zikun Zhou , Siwei Ma , Yaowei Wang

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

Invisible watermarking for autoregressive (AR) image generation has recently gained attention as a means of protecting image ownership and tracing AI-generated content. However, existing approaches suffer from three key limitations: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yigit Yilmaz , Elena Petrova , Mehmet Kaya , Lucia Rossi , Amir Rahman

We revisit watermarking techniques based on pre-trained deep networks, in the light of self-supervised approaches. We present a way to embed both marks and binary messages into their latent spaces, leveraging data augmentation at marking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Pierre Fernandez , Alexandre Sablayrolles , Teddy Furon , Hervé Jégou , Matthijs Douze

Image deep steganography (IDS) is a technique that utilizes deep learning to embed a secret image invisibly into a cover image to generate a container image. However, the container images generated by convolutional neural networks (CNNs)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Huajie Chen , Tianqing Zhu , Yuan Zhao , Bo Liu , Xin Yu , Wanlei Zhou

Invisible watermarks safeguard images' copyrights by embedding hidden messages only detectable by owners. They also prevent people from misusing images, especially those generated by AI models. We propose a family of regeneration attacks to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Xuandong Zhao , Kexun Zhang , Zihao Su , Saastha Vasan , Ilya Grishchenko , Christopher Kruegel , Giovanni Vigna , Yu-Xiang Wang , Lei Li

Unauthorized screen capturing and dissemination pose severe security threats such as data leakage and information theft. Several studies propose robust watermarking methods to track the copyright of Screen-Camera (SC) images, facilitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yufeng Wu , Xin Liao , Baowei Wang , Han Fang , Xiaoshuai Wu , Mingyue Chen , Guiling Wang

Processing histopathological Whole Slide Images (WSI) leads to massive storage requirements for clinics worldwide. Even after lossy image compression during image acquisition, additional lossy compression is frequently possible without…

As advanced image manipulation techniques emerge, detecting the manipulation becomes increasingly important. Despite the success of recent learning-based approaches for image manipulation detection, they typically require expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yuanhao Zhai , Tianyu Luan , David Doermann , Junsong Yuan

We introduce the Lossy Implicit Network Activation Coding (LINAC) defence, an input transformation which successfully hinders several common adversarial attacks on CIFAR-$10$ classifiers for perturbations up to $\epsilon = 8/255$ in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Andrei A. Rusu , Dan A. Calian , Sven Gowal , Raia Hadsell

As a fundamental visual attribute, image complexity significantly influences both human perception and the performance of computer vision models. However, accurately assessing and quantifying image complexity remains a challenging task. (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Shipeng Liu , Liang Zhao , Dengfeng Chen

In the past years, learned image compression (LIC) has achieved remarkable performance. The recent LIC methods outperform VVC in both PSNR and MS-SSIM. However, the low bit-rate reconstructions of LIC suffer from artifacts such as blurring,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-31 Dailan He , Ziming Yang , Hongjiu Yu , Tongda Xu , Jixiang Luo , Yuan Chen , Chenjian Gao , Xinjie Shi , Hongwei Qin , Yan Wang

Integrated healthcare systems require the transmission of medical images between medical centers. The presence of watermarks in such images has become important for patient privacy protection. However, some important issues should be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Ahmed Nagm , Mohammed Safy

In this paper, a new approach to Spread Spectrum (SS) watermarking technique is introduced. This problem is particularly interesting in the field of modern multimedia applications like internet when copyright protection of digital image is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-07-12 T. S. Das , V. H. Mankar , S. K. Sarkar

Lossy image compression is often limited by the simplicity of the chosen loss measure. Recent research suggests that generative adversarial networks have the ability to overcome this limitation and serve as a multi-modal loss, especially…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Jan P. Klopp , Keng-Chi Liu , Liang-Gee Chen , Shao-Yi Chien