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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…

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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…

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While generative diffusion models excel in producing high-quality images, they can also be misused to mimic authorized images, posing a significant threat to AI systems. Efforts have been made to add calibrated perturbations to protect…

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Recently, text-to-image diffusion models have been widely used for style mimicry and personalized customization through methods such as DreamBooth and Textual Inversion. This has raised concerns about intellectual property protection and…

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Recent advances in diffusion models have enabled high-quality synthesis of specific subjects, such as identities or objects. This capability, while unlocking new possibilities in content creation, also introduces significant privacy risks,…

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This paper presents a novel reconstruction method that leverages Diffusion Models to protect machine learning classifiers against adversarial attacks, all without requiring any modifications to the classifiers themselves. The susceptibility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Hondamunige Prasanna Silva , Lorenzo Seidenari , Alberto Del Bimbo

As generative artificial intelligence technologies like Stable Diffusion advance, visual content becomes more vulnerable to misuse, raising concerns about copyright infringement. Visual watermarks serve as effective protection mechanisms,…

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With the increasing prevalence of diffusion-based malicious image manipulation, existing proactive defense methods struggle to safeguard images against tampering under unknown conditions. To address this, we propose Anti-Inpainting, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yimao Guo , Zuomin Qu , Wei Lu , Xiangyang Luo

Diffusion-based image generation models, such as Stable Diffusion or DALL-E 2, are able to learn from given images and generate high-quality samples following the guidance from prompts. For instance, they can be used to create artistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Bochuan Cao , Changjiang Li , Ting Wang , Jinyuan Jia , Bo Li , Jinghui Chen

Diffusion models enable high-fidelity image editing but can also be misused for unauthorized style imitation and harmful content generation. To mitigate these risks, proactive image protection methods embed small, often imperceptible…

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With the rapid increase in online photo sharing activities, image obfuscation algorithms become particularly important for protecting the sensitive information in the shared photos. However, existing image obfuscation methods based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Sen Liu , Jianxin Lin , Zhibo Chen

Blind face restoration methods have shown remarkable performance, particularly when trained on large-scale synthetic datasets with supervised learning. These datasets are often generated by simulating low-quality face images with a…

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Diffusion models build a new milestone for image generation yet raising public concerns, for they can be fine-tuned on unauthorized images for customization. Protection based on adversarial attacks rises to encounter this unauthorized…

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Many existing adversarial attacks generate $L_p$-norm perturbations on image RGB space. Despite some achievements in transferability and attack success rate, the crafted adversarial examples are easily perceived by human eyes. Towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Jianqi Chen , Hao Chen , Keyan Chen , Yilan Zhang , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

With the rapid advancement of diffusion-based image-generative models, the quality of generated images has become increasingly photorealistic. Moreover, with the release of high-quality pre-trained image-generative models, a growing number…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Yan Pang , Tianhao Wang

Privacy protection has become a top priority as the proliferation of AI techniques has led to widespread collection and misuse of personal data. Anonymization and visual identity information hiding are two important facial privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Xiao He , Mingrui Zhu , Dongxin Chen , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

The rapid advancement of pretrained text-driven diffusion models has significantly enriched applications in image generation and editing. However, as the demand for personalized content editing increases, new challenges emerge especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Rui Jiang , Xinghe Fu , Guangcong Zheng , Teng Li , Taiping Yao , Xi Li

Robust invisible watermarking schemes aim to embed hidden information into images such that the watermark survives common manipulations. However, powerful diffusion-based image generation and editing techniques now pose a new threat to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Fan Guo , Jiyu Kang , Qi Ming , Emily Davis , Finn Carter

In recent years, diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in the realm of high-quality image generation, garnering increased attention. This surge in interest is paralleled by a growing concern over the security threats associated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Sen Li , Junchi Ma , Minhao Cheng