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One of the effective methods for the preservation of copyright ownership of digital media is watermarking. Different watermarking techniques try to set a tradeoff between robustness and transparency of the process. In this research work, we…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Maedeh Jamali , Mahnoosh Bagheri , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Ethical concerns surrounding copyright protection and inappropriate content generation pose challenges for the practical implementation of diffusion models. One effective solution involves watermarking the generated images. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Zijin Yang , Xin Zhang , Kejiang Chen , Kai Zeng , Qiyi Yao , Han Fang , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Diffusion models can learn rich representations during data generation, showing potential for Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), but they face a trade-off between generative quality and discriminative performance. Their iterative sampling also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Kosuke Ukita , Tsuyoshi Okita

With the growing popularity of the Internet, digital images are used and transferred more frequently. Although this phenomenon facilitates easy access to information, it also creates security concerns and violates intellectual property…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Alireza Tavakoli , Zahra Honjani , Hedieh Sajedi

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) has led to significant progress in video generation, but also raises serious concerns about intellectual property protection and reliable content tracing.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yu Huang , Junhao Chen , Shuliang Liu , Hanqian Li , Jungang Li , Qi Zheng , Aiwei Liu , Yi R. Fung , Xuming Hu

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 introduces a blind watermarking based on a convolutional neural network (CNN). We propose an iterative learning framework to secure robustness of watermarking. One loop of learning process consists of the following three stages:…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Seung-Min Mun , Seung-Hun Nam , Han-Ul Jang , Dongkyu Kim , Heung-Kyu Lee

Diffusion models have advanced rapidly in recent years, producing high-fidelity images while raising concerns about intellectual property protection and the misuse of generative AI. Image watermarking for diffusion models, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jindong Yang , Han Fang , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu , Kejiang Chen

We present STARFlow, a scalable generative model based on normalizing flows that achieves strong performance in high-resolution image synthesis. The core of STARFlow is Transformer Autoregressive Flow (TARFlow), which combines the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jiatao Gu , Tianrong Chen , David Berthelot , Huangjie Zheng , Yuyang Wang , Ruixiang Zhang , Laurent Dinh , Miguel Angel Bautista , Josh Susskind , Shuangfei Zhai

Solving ill-posed inverse problems requires powerful and flexible priors. We propose leveraging pretrained latent diffusion models for this task through a new training-free approach, termed Diffusion-regularized Wasserstein Gradient Flow…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-24 Tim Y. J. Wang , O. Deniz Akyildiz

Diffusion Models (DMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in various image-generation tasks. However, there are growing concerns that DMs could be used to imitate unauthorized creations and thus raise copyright issues. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Peifei Zhu , Tsubasa Takahashi , Hirokatsu Kataoka

Watermarking is crucial for protecting the copyright of AI-generated images. We propose WMAdapter, a diffusion model watermark plugin that takes user-specified watermark information and allows for seamless watermark imprinting during the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Hai Ci , Yiren Song , Pei Yang , Jinheng Xie , Mike Zheng Shou

With the advent of the screen-reading era, the confidential documents displayed on the screen can be easily captured by a camera without leaving any traces. Thus, this paper proposes a novel screen-shooting resilient watermarking scheme for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Sulong Ge , Zhihua Xia , Yao Tong , Jian Weng , Jianan Liu

The advent of high-quality video generation models has amplified the need for robust watermarking schemes that can be used to reliably detect and track the provenance of generated videos. Existing video watermarking methods based on both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Samar Fares , Nurbek Tastan , Karthik Nandakumar

As AI-generated images become widespread, reliable watermarking is essential for content verification, copyright enforcement, and combating disinformation. Existing techniques rely on heuristic approaches and lack formal guarantees of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Kareem Shehata , Aashish Kolluri , Prateek Saxena

The rapid advancement of generative AI has underscored the critical need for identifying image ownership and protecting copyrights. This makes post-processing image watermarking an essential tool -- it involves embedding a specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xinyu Zhang , Ziping Dong , Qingyu Liu , Yuan Hong , Zhongjie Ba , Kui Ren

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

Invisible watermarking is essential for safeguarding digital content, enabling copyright protection and content authentication. However, existing watermarking methods fall short in robustness against regeneration attacks. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yiyang Guo , Ruizhe Li , Mude Hui , Hanzhong Guo , Chen Zhang , Chuangjian Cai , Le Wan , Shangfei Wang

Watermarking acts as a critical safeguard in text generated by Large Language Models (LLMs). By embedding identifiable signals into model outputs, watermarking enables reliable attribution and enhances the security of machine-generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yukang Lin , Jiahao Shao , Shuoran Jiang , Wentao Zhu , Bingjie Lu , Xiangping Wu , Joanna Siebert , Qingcai Chen

This paper introduces a novel deep learning framework for robust image zero-watermarking based on distortion-invariant feature learning. As a zero-watermarking scheme, our method leaves the original image unaltered and learns a reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Abdullah All Tanvir , Frank Y. Shih , Xin Zhong