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Pre-trained models are valuable intellectual property, capturing both domain-specific and domain-invariant features within their weight spaces. However, model extraction attacks threaten these assets by enabling unauthorized source-domain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Tong Zhou , Shijin Duan , Gaowen Liu , Charles Fleming , Ramana Rao Kompella , Shaolei Ren , Xiaolin Xu

Recently, Generative Diffusion Models (GDMs) have showcased their remarkable capabilities in learning and generating images. A large community of GDMs has naturally emerged, further promoting the diversified applications of GDMs in various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Yingqian Cui , Jie Ren , Han Xu , Pengfei He , Hui Liu , Lichao Sun , Yue Xing , Jiliang Tang

Watermarking images is critical for tracking image provenance and proving ownership. With the advent of generative models, such as stable diffusion, that can create fake but realistic images, watermarking has become particularly important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Lijun Zhang , Xiao Liu , Antoni Viros Martin , Cindy Xiong Bearfield , Yuriy Brun , Hui Guan

Recent advancements in diffusion models have made fine-tuning text-to-image models for personalization increasingly accessible, but have also raised significant concerns regarding unauthorized data usage and privacy infringement. Current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Hojun Lee , Mijin Koo , Yeji Song , Nojun Kwak

We propose a diffusion-based approach for Text-to-Image (T2I) generation with consistent and interactive 3D layout control and editing. While prior methods improve spatial adherence using 2D cues or iterative copy-warp-paste strategies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Andrea Rigo , Luca Stornaiuolo , Weijie Wang , Mauro Martino , Bruno Lepri , Nicu Sebe

The exceptional performance of diffusion models establishes them as high-value intellectual property but exposes them to unauthorized replication. Existing protection methods either modify the model to embed watermarks, which impairs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Lingxiao Chen , Liqin Wang , Wei Lu , Xiangyang Luo

Recently, the Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DPM)-based methods have achieved substantial success in the field of medical image segmentation. However, most of these methods fail to enable the diffusion model to learn edge features and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Tingwei Liu , Miao Zhang , Leiye Liu , Jialong Zhong , Shuyao Wang , Yongri Piao , Huchuan Lu

Deep learning techniques have made tremendous progress in a variety of challenging tasks, such as image recognition and machine translation, during the past decade. Training deep neural networks is computationally expensive and requires…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Zheng Li , Chengyu Hu , Yang Zhang , Shanqing Guo

Digital image watermarking has advanced rapidly for copyright protection of generative AI, yet the comparatively limited progress in watermark attack techniques has broken the attack-defense balance and hindered further advances in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Chunpeng Wang , Binyan Qu , Xiaoyu Wang , Zhiqiu Xia , Shanshan Zhang , Yunan Liu , Qi Li

Deep learning techniques have implemented many unconditional image generation (UIG) models, such as GAN, Diffusion model, etc. The extremely realistic images (also known as AI-Generated Content, AIGC for short) produced by these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Ruinan Ma , Yu-an Tan , Shangbo Wu , Tian Chen , Yajie Wang , Yuanzhang Li

In this paper, an efficiently DWT-based watermarking technique is proposed to embed signatures in images to attest the owner identification and discourage the unauthorized copying. This paper deals with a fuzzy inference filter to choose…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2010-07-30 Ming-Shing Hsieh

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models enable high-quality image generation conditioned on textual prompts. However, fine-tuning these pre-trained models for personalization raises concerns about unauthorized dataset usage. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Kuofeng Gao , Yufei Zhu , Yiming Li , Jiawang Bai , Yong Yang , Zhifeng Li , Shu-Tao Xia

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

In light of recent advancements in generative AI models, it has become essential to distinguish genuine content from AI-generated one to prevent the malicious usage of fake materials as authentic ones and vice versa. Various techniques have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Mehrdad Saberi , Vinu Sankar Sadasivan , Keivan Rezaei , Aounon Kumar , Atoosa Chegini , Wenxiao Wang , Soheil Feizi

Precise image editing with text-to-image models has attracted increasing interest due to their remarkable generative capabilities and user-friendly nature. However, such attempts face the pivotal challenge of misalignment between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Wei Wu , Qingnan Fan , Shuai Qin , Hong Gu , Ruoyu Zhao , Antoni B. Chan

By and large, existing Intellectual Property (IP) protection on deep neural networks typically i) focus on image classification task only, and ii) follow a standard digital watermarking framework that was conventionally used to protect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Jian Han Lim , Chee Seng Chan , Kam Woh Ng , Lixin Fan , Qiang Yang

Diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated advantageous potential on generative tasks. Widespread interest exists in incorporating DMs into downstream applications, such as producing or editing photorealistic images. However, practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yunqing Zhao , Tianyu Pang , Chao Du , Xiao Yang , Ngai-Man Cheung , Min Lin

Although autoregressive models have dominated language modeling in recent years, there has been a growing interest in exploring alternative paradigms to the conventional next-token prediction framework. Diffusion-based language models have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Chihan Huang , Hao Tang

Generative image editing has recently witnessed extremely fast-paced growth. Some works use high-level conditioning such as text, while others use low-level conditioning. Nevertheless, most of them lack fine-grained control over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Vidit Goel , Elia Peruzzo , Yifan Jiang , Dejia Xu , Xingqian Xu , Nicu Sebe , Trevor Darrell , Zhangyang Wang , Humphrey Shi

Recent advancements in diffusion models have greatly improved the quality and diversity of synthesized content. To harness the expressive power of diffusion models, researchers have explored various controllable mechanisms that allow users…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Tsai-Shien Chen , Chieh Hubert Lin , Hung-Yu Tseng , Tsung-Yi Lin , Ming-Hsuan Yang