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Recent works have shown that deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples that find samples close to the original image but can make the model misclassify. Even with access only to the model's output, an attacker can employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Quang H. Nguyen , Yingjie Lao , Tung Pham , Kok-Seng Wong , Khoa D. Doan

Copyright protection for deep neural networks (DNNs) is an urgent need for AI corporations. To trace illegally distributed model copies, DNN watermarking is an emerging technique for embedding and verifying secret identity messages in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Yifan Yan , Xudong Pan , Mi Zhang , Min Yang

AI watermarking embeds invisible signals within images to provide provenance information and identify content as AI-generated. In this paper, we introduce MarkSweep, a novel watermark removal attack that effectively erases the embedded…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Jie Cao , Zelin Zhang , Qi Li , Jianbing Ni

Rapid advancements in video diffusion models have enabled the creation of realistic videos, raising concerns about unauthorized use and driving the demand for techniques to protect model ownership. Existing watermarking methods, while…

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Diffusion models have made substantial advances in recent years, enabling high-quality image synthesis; however, the widespread dissemination and reuse of their outputs have introduced new challenges in intellectual property protection and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yuqi Qian , Yun Cao , Haocheng Fu , Meiyang Lv , Meineng Zhu

Watermarking plays a key role in the provenance and detection of AI-generated content. While existing methods prioritize robustness against real-world distortions (e.g., JPEG compression and noise addition), we reveal a fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Zhongjie Ba , Yitao Zhang , Peng Cheng , Bin Gong , Xinyu Zhang , Qinglong Wang , Kui Ren

Visible watermark plays an important role in image copyright protection and the robustness of a visible watermark to an attack is shown to be essential. To evaluate and improve the effectiveness of watermark, watermark removal attracts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Xiang Li , Chan Lu , Danni Cheng , Wei-Hong Li , Mei Cao , Bo Liu , Jiechao Ma , Wei-Shi Zheng

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,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Junxian Duan , Jiyang Guan , Wenkui Yang , Ran He

As a common security tool, visible watermarking has been widely applied to protect copyrights of digital images. However, recent works have shown that visible watermarks can be removed by DNNs without damaging their host images. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Xinwei Liu , Jian Liu , Yang Bai , Jindong Gu , Tao Chen , Xiaojun Jia , Xiaochun Cao

Watermarking helps in ensuring originality, ownership and copyrights of a digital image. This paper aims at embedding a Watermark in an image using Wave Atom Transform. Preference of Wave Atoms on other transformations has been due to its…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2015-08-10 Ijaz Bukhari , Nuhman-ul-Haq , Khizar Hyat

Watermarking generative content serves as a vital tool for authentication, ownership protection, and mitigation of potential misuse. Existing watermarking methods face the challenge of balancing robustness and concealment. They empirically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Huayang Huang , Yu Wu , Qian Wang

The widespread use of AI-generated content from diffusion models has raised significant concerns regarding misinformation and copyright infringement. Watermarking is a crucial technique for identifying these AI-generated images and…

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Deep neural networks (DNN) have achieved remarkable performance in various fields. However, training a DNN model from scratch requires a lot of computing resources and training data. It is difficult for most individual users to obtain such…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Haoqi Wang , Mingfu Xue , Shichang Sun , Yushu Zhang , Jian Wang , Weiqiang Liu

In recent years, there has been significant advancement in the field of model watermarking techniques. However, the protection of image-processing neural networks remains a challenge, with only a limited number of methods being developed.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Huajie Chen , Tianqing Zhu , Chi Liu , Shui Yu , Wanlei Zhou

We present a novel attack specifically designed against Tree-Ring, a watermarking technique for diffusion models known for its high imperceptibility and robustness against removal attacks. Unlike previous removal attacks, which rely on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Junhua Lin , Marc Juarez

Diffusion models generate high-quality images but pose serious risks like copyright violation and disinformation. Watermarking is a key defense for tracing and authenticating AI-generated content. However, existing methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yi Zhang , Hongbo Huang , Liang-Jie Zhang

Fooling people with highly realistic fake images generated with Deepfake or GANs brings a great social disturbance to our society. Many methods have been proposed to detect fake images, but they are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Quanyu Liao , Yuezun Li , Xin Wang , Bin Kong , Bin Zhu , Siwei Lyu , Youbing Yin , Qi Song , Xi Wu

Visible watermarks are widely-used in images to protect copyright ownership. Analyzing watermark removal helps to reinforce the anti-attack techniques in an adversarial way. Current removal methods normally leverage image-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Yang Liu , Zhen Zhu , Xiang Bai

Optical character recognition (OCR) is widely applied in real applications serving as a key preprocessing tool. The adoption of deep neural network (DNN) in OCR results in the vulnerability against adversarial examples which are crafted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Lu Chen , Wei Xu

Deep neural networks are highly vulnerable to adversarial examples, which imposes severe security issues for these state-of-the-art models. Many defense methods have been proposed to mitigate this problem. However, a lot of them depend on…

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