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Semantic watermarks exhibit strong robustness against conventional image-space attacks. In this work, we show that such robustness does not survive under micro-geometric perturbations: spatial displacements can remove watermarks by breaking…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Xiaoxi Kong , Jieyu Yuan , Pengdi Chen , Yuanlin Zhang , Chongyi Li , Bin Li

Watermarking embeds imperceptible patterns into images for authenticity verification. However, existing methods often lack robustness against various transformations primarily including distortions, image regeneration, and adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Inzamamul Alam , Md Tanvir Islam , Khan Muhammad , Simon S. Woo

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

The proliferation of AI-generated content has facilitated sophisticated face manipulation, severely undermining visual integrity and posing unprecedented challenges to intellectual property. In response, a common proactive defense leverages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Haonan An , Xiaohui Ye , Guang Hua , Yihang Tao , Hangcheng Cao , Xiangyu Yu , Yuguang Fang

A genetic algorithm based robust blind digital watermarking scheme is presented. Starting from a binary image (the original watermark), a genetic algorithm is performed searching for a permutation of this image which is as uncorrelated as…

Digital watermarking technology has a wide range of applications in video distribution and copyright protection due to its excellent invisibility and convenient traceability. This paper proposes a robust blind watermarking algorithm using…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Qinwei Chang , Leichao Huang , Shaoteng Liu , Hualuo Liu , Tianshu Yang , Yexin Wang

Watermarking is a crucial tool for safeguarding copyrights and can serve as a more aesthetically pleasing alternative to QR codes. In recent years, watermarking methods based on deep learning have proved superior robustness against complex…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Zhe Lei , Jie Zhang , Jingtao Li , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Multimedia security has been the aim point of considerable research activity because of its wide application area. The major technology to achieve copyright protection, content authentication, access control and multimedia security is…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Noui Oussama , Noui Lemnouar

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

With the increasing use of the internet and the ease of exchange of multimedia content, the protection of ownership rights has become a significant concern. Watermarking is an efficient means for this purpose. In many applications,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Mohsen Hajabdolahi , Nader Karimi , Shahram Shirani , Shadrokh Samavi

Digital watermark is a commonly used technique to protect the copyright of medias. Simultaneously, to increase the robustness of watermark, attacking technique, such as watermark removal, also gets the attention from the community. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xiaodong Cun , Chi-Man Pun

In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm to rectify illumination of the digitized documents by eliminating shading artifacts. Firstly, a topographic surface of an input digitized document is created using luminance value of each pixel.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Seungjun Jung , Muhammad Abul Hasan , Changick Kim

Watermarking techniques are vital for protecting intellectual property and preventing fraudulent use of media. Most previous watermarking schemes designed for diffusion models embed a secret key in the initial noise. The resulting pattern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Anubhav Jain , Yuya Kobayashi , Naoki Murata , Yuhta Takida , Takashi Shibuya , Yuki Mitsufuji , Niv Cohen , Nasir Memon , Julian Togelius

Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC), particularly video generation with diffusion models, has been advanced rapidly. Invisible watermarking is a key technology for protecting AI-generated videos and tracing harmful content, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Xinjie Zhu , Zijing Zhao , Hui Jin , Qingxiao Guo , Yilong Ma , Yunhao Wang , Xiaobing Guo , Weifeng Zhang

The recent progress in generative models has revolutionized the synthesis of highly realistic images, including face images. This technological development has undoubtedly helped face recognition, such as training data augmentation for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yuguang Yao , Steven Grosz , Sijia Liu , Anil Jain

Underwater images suffer from light refraction and absorption, which impairs visibility and interferes the subsequent applications. Existing underwater image enhancement methods mainly focus on image quality improvement, ignoring the effect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zengxi Zhang , Zhiying Jiang , Jinyuan Liu , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

With the increasing use of large language models (LLMs) in daily life, concerns have emerged regarding their potential misuse and societal impact. Watermarking is proposed to trace the usage of specific models by injecting patterns into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Baizhou Huang , Xiaojun Wan

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

Watermarking inserts invisible data into content to protect copyright. The embedded information provides proof of authorship and facilitates tracking illegal distribution, etc. Current robust watermarking techniques have been proposed to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Wook-Hyung Kim , Seung-Hun Nam , Ji-Hyeon Kang , Heung-Kyu Lee

This paper gives a new scheme of watermarking technique related to insert the mark by adding edge in HH sub-band of the host image after wavelet decomposition. Contrary to most of the watermarking algorithms in wavelet domain, our method is…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Henri Bruno Razafindradina , Attoumani Mohamed Karim