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We propose a novel multi-bit box-free watermarking method for the protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of GANs with improved robustness against white-box attacks like fine-tuning, pruning, quantization, and surrogate model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Jianwei Fei , Zhihua Xia , Benedetta Tondi , Mauro Barni

Diffusion models have rapidly become a vital part of deep generative architectures, given today's increasing demands. Obtaining large, high-performance diffusion models demands significant resources, highlighting their importance as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Sen Peng , Yufei Chen , Cong Wang , Xiaohua Jia

Content-independent watermarks and block-wise independency can be considered as vulnerabilities in semi-fragile watermarking methods. In this paper to achieve the objectives of semi-fragile watermarking techniques, a method is proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Samira Hosseini , Mojtaba Mahdavi

Image watermarking methods are not tailored to handle small watermarked areas. This restricts applications in real-world scenarios where parts of the image may come from different sources or have been edited. We introduce a deep-learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Tom Sander , Pierre Fernandez , Alain Durmus , Teddy Furon , Matthijs Douze

Rapid advancements in multimodal large language models have enabled the creation of hyper-realistic images from textual descriptions. However, these advancements also raise significant concerns about unauthorized use, which hinders their…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yongyang Pan , Xiaohong Liu , Siqi Luo , Yi Xin , Xiao Guo , Xiaoming Liu , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

AI-generated images have become so good in recent years that individuals often cannot distinguish them any more from "real" images. This development, combined with the rapid spread of AI-generated content online, creates a series of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Bram Rijsbosch , Gijs van Dijck , Konrad Kollnig

As diffusion models (DMs) enable photorealistic image generation at unprecedented scale, watermarking techniques have become essential for provenance establishment and accountability. Existing methods face challenges: sampling-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hong-Hanh Nguyen-Le , Van-Tuan Tran , Thuc D. Nguyen , Nhien-An Le-Khac

Generative AI (GenAI) is transforming creative workflows through the capability to synthesize and manipulate images via high-level prompts. Yet creatives are not well supported to receive recognition or reward for the use of their content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Vishal Asnani , John Collomosse , Tu Bui , Xiaoming Liu , Shruti Agarwal

We introduce MUSE, a watermarking algorithm for tabular generative models. Previous approaches typically leverage DDIM invertibility to watermark tabular diffusion models, but tabular diffusion models exhibit significantly poorer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Liancheng Fang , Aiwei Liu , Henry Peng Zou , Yankai Chen , Hengrui Zhang , Zhongfen Deng , Philip S. Yu

Watermarking for diffusion images has drawn considerable attention due to the widespread use of text-to-image diffusion models and the increasing need for their copyright protection. Recently, advanced watermarking techniques, such as Tree…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Yaopeng Wang , Huiyu Xu , Zhibo Wang , Jiacheng Du , Zhichao Li , Yiming Li , Qiu Wang , Kui Ren

Digital watermarking is an effective way to protect copyright. In this paper, a robust watermarking algorithm based on wavelet transformation is proposed which can confirm the copyright without original image. The wavelet transformation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-09-11 Atefeh Elahian , Mehdi Khalili , Shahriar Baradaran Shokouhi

Synthetic time series generated by diffusion models enable sharing privacy-sensitive datasets, such as patients' functional MRI records. Key criteria for synthetic data include high data utility and traceability to verify the data source.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Zhi Wen Soi , Chaoyi Zhu , Fouad Abiad , Aditya Shankar , Jeroen M. Galjaard , Huijuan Wang , Lydia Y. Chen

We present REMARK-LLM, a novel efficient, and robust watermarking framework designed for texts generated by large language models (LLMs). Synthesizing human-like content using LLMs necessitates vast computational resources and extensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Ruisi Zhang , Shehzeen Samarah Hussain , Paarth Neekhara , Farinaz Koushanfar

Watermarking is an operation of embedding an information into an image in a way that allows to identify ownership of the image despite applying some distortions on it. In this paper, we presented a novel end-to-end solution for embedding…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Marcin Plata , Piotr Syga

Multiple watermarking technique, embedding several watermarks in one carrier, has enabled many interesting applications. In this study, a novel multiple watermarking algorithm is proposed based on the spirit of spread transform dither…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Xinchao Li , Ju Liu , Jiande Sun , Xiaohui Yang , Wei Liu

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

The rapid evolution of image generation models has revolutionized visual content creation, enabling the synthesis of highly realistic and contextually accurate images for diverse applications. However, the potential for misuse, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yihan Wu , Xuehao Cui , Ruibo Chen , Georgios Milis , Heng Huang

Watermarking is a technical alternative to safeguarding intellectual property and reducing misuse. Existing methods focus on optimizing watermarked latent variables to balance watermark robustness and fidelity, as Latent diffusion models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-09 Liangqi Lei , Keke Gai , Jing Yu , Qi Wu

A novel digital watermarking for ownership verification and image authentication applications using discrete wavelet transform (DWT) is proposed in this paper. Most previous proposed watermarking algorithms embed sequences of random numbers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-06-21 Mehdi Khalili

Protecting deep neural networks (DNNs) against intellectual property (IP) infringement has attracted an increasing attention in recent years. Recent advances focus on IP protection of generative models, which embed the watermark information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Li Zhang , Yong Liu , Xinpeng Zhang , Hanzhou Wu