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Image watermarking is a technique for hiding information into images that can withstand distortions while requiring the encoded image to be perceptually identical to the original image. Recent work based on deep neural networks (DNN) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Guanhui Ye , Jiashi Gao , Wei Xie , Bo Yin , Xuetao Wei

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 has emerged as a promising technique to track AI-generated content and differentiate it from authentic human creations. While prior work extensively studies watermarking for autoregressive large language models (LLMs) and image…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Avi Bagchi , Akhil Bhimaraju , Moulik Choraria , Daniel Alabi , Lav R. Varshney

The rapid advancement of deep learning has turned models into highly valuable assets due to their reliance on massive data and costly training processes. However, these models are increasingly vulnerable to leakage and theft, highlighting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yunfei Yang , Xiaojun Chen , Zhendong Zhao , Yu Zhou , Xiaoyan Gu , Juan Cao

Recently, diffusion models (DMs) have become the state-of-the-art method for image synthesis. Editing models based on DMs, known for their high fidelity and precision, have inadvertently introduced new challenges related to image copyright…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Mingtian Tan , Tianhao Wang , Somesh Jha

Deepfakes and manipulated media are becoming a prominent threat due to the recent advances in realistic image and video synthesis techniques. There have been several attempts at combating Deepfakes using machine learning classifiers.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Paarth Neekhara , Shehzeen Hussain , Xinqiao Zhang , Ke Huang , Julian McAuley , Farinaz Koushanfar

Current passive deepfake face-swapping detection methods encounter significance bottlenecks in model generalization capabilities. Meanwhile, proactive detection methods often use fixed watermarks which lack a close relationship with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Shulin Lan , Kanlin Liu , Yazhou Zhao , Chen Yang , Yingchao Wang , Xingshan Yao , Liehuang Zhu

Embedding watermarks into the output of generative models is essential for establishing copyright and verifiable ownership over the generated content. Emerging diffusion model watermarking methods either embed watermarks in the frequency…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Yunzhuo Chen , Jordan Vice , Naveed Akhtar , Nur Al Hasan Haldar , Ajmal Mian

Malicious applications of deepfakes (i.e., technologies generating target facial attributes or entire faces from facial images) have posed a huge threat to individuals' reputation and security. To mitigate these threats, recent studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Hao Huang , Yongtao Wang , Zhaoyu Chen , Yuze Zhang , Yuheng Li , Zhi Tang , Wei Chu , Jingdong Chen , Weisi Lin , Kai-Kuang Ma

The ethical need to protect AI-generated content has been a significant concern in recent years. While existing watermarking strategies have demonstrated success in detecting synthetic content (detection), there has been limited exploration…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Rui Min , Sen Li , Hongyang Chen , Minhao Cheng

Malicious Deepfakes have led to a sharp conflict over distinguishing between genuine and forged faces. Although many countermeasures have been developed to detect Deepfakes ex-post, undoubtedly, passive forensics has not considered any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Xiaoshuai Wu , Xin Liao , Bo Ou

Image watermarking supports authenticity and provenance, yet many schemes are still easy to bypass with various distortions and powerful generative edits. Deep learning-based watermarking has improved robustness to diffusion-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Utae Jeong , Sumin In , Hyunju Ryu , Jaewan Choi , Feng Yang , Jongheon Jeong , Seungryong Kim , Sangpil Kim

We propose SERUM: an intriguingly simple yet highly effective method for marking images generated by diffusion models (DMs). We only add a unique watermark noise to the initial diffusion generation noise and train a lightweight detector to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jan Kociszewski , Hubert Jastrzębski , Tymoteusz Stępkowski , Filip Manijak , Krzysztof Rojek , Franziska Boenisch , Adam Dziedzic

From its acquisition in the camera sensors to its storage, different operations are performed to generate the final image. This pipeline imprints specific traces into the image to form a natural watermark. Tampering with an image disturbs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Matías Tailanian , Marina Gardella , Álvaro Pardo , Pablo Musé

Digital contents have grown dramatically in recent years, leading to increased attention to copyright. Image watermarking has been considered one of the most popular methods for copyright protection. With the recent advancements in applying…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Maedeh Jamali , Nader Karim , Pejman Khadivi , Shahram Shirani , Shadrokh Samavi

Although deep learning-based visual tracking methods have made significant progress, they exhibit vulnerabilities when facing carefully designed adversarial attacks, which can lead to a sharp decline in tracking performance. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Long Xu , Peng Gao , Wen-Jia Tang , Fei Wang , Ru-Yue Yuan

The rapid progress in deep generative models has led to the creation of incredibly realistic synthetic images that are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from real-world data. The widespread use of Variational Models, Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Anant Mehta , Bryant McArthur , Nagarjuna Kolloju , Zhengzhong Tu

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in multimodal understanding, yet their susceptibility to perturbations poses a significant threat to their reliability in real-world applications. Despite often being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jia Fu , Yongtao Wu , Yihang Chen , Kunyu Peng , Xiao Zhang , Volkan Cevher , Sepideh Pashami , Anders Holst

Face anti-spoofing (FAS) and adversarial detection (FAD) have been regarded as critical technologies to ensure the safety of face recognition systems. However, due to limited practicality, complex deployment, and the additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Jiawei Chen , Xiao Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Zhaoxia Yin

Recent advancements in diffusion models have enabled the generation of realistic deepfakes from textual prompts in natural language. While these models have numerous benefits across various sectors, they have also raised concerns about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Roberto Amoroso , Davide Morelli , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Alberto Del Bimbo , Rita Cucchiara