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Nowadays, deep neural networks are used for solving complex tasks in several critical applications and protecting both their integrity and intellectual property rights (IPR) has become of utmost importance. To this end, we advance WaterMAS,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Carl De Sousa Trias , Mihai Mitrea , Attilio Fiandrotti , Marco Cagnazzo , Sumanta Chaudhuri , Enzo Tartaglione

This work introduces \textbf{VideoMark}, a distortion-free robust watermarking framework for video diffusion models. As diffusion models excel in generating realistic videos, reliable content attribution is increasingly critical. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xuming Hu , Hanqian Li , Jungang Li , Yu Huang , Shuliang Liu , Qi Zheng , Junhao Chen , Aiwei Liu

Unauthorized screen-shooting poses a critical data leakage risk. Resisting screen-shooting attacks typically requires high-strength watermark embedding, inevitably degrading the cover image. To resolve the robustness-fidelity conflict,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Yufeng Wu , Xin Liao , Baowei Wang , Han Fang , Xiaoshuai Wu , Guiling Wang

Robust watermarking tries to conceal information within a cover image/video imperceptibly that is resistant to various distortions. Recently, deep learning-based approaches for image watermarking have made significant advancements in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Guanhui Ye , Jiashi Gao , Yuchen Wang , Liyan Song , Xuetao Wei

Invisible image watermarking is essential for image copyright protection. Compared to RGB images, RAW format images use a higher dynamic range to capture the radiometric characteristics of the camera sensor, providing greater flexibility in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-31 Kang Fu , Xiaohong Liu , Jun Jia , Zicheng Zhang , Yicong Peng , Jia Wang , Guangtao Zhai

Recent years have witnessed the prosperous development of Graph Self-supervised Learning (GSSL), which enables to pre-train transferable foundation graph encoders. However, the easy-to-plug-in nature of such encoders makes them vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xiangyu Zhao , Hanzhou Wu , Xinpeng Zhang

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

This paper gives a new scheme of watermarking technique related to insert the mark by adding edge in HH sub-band of the host image after wavelet decomposition. Contrary to most of the watermarking algorithms in wavelet domain, our method is…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Henri Bruno Razafindradina , Attoumani Mohamed Karim

This paper proposes an oblivious watermarking algorithm with blind detection approach for high volume data hiding in image signals. We present a detection reliable signal adaptive embedding scheme for multiple messages in selective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-07-12 T. S. Das , V. H. Mankar , S. K. Sarkar

Digital image watermarking seeks to protect the digital media information from unauthorized access, where the message is embedded into the digital image and extracted from it, even some noises or distortions are applied under various data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Hong-Bo Xu , Rong Wang , Jia Wei , Shao-Ping Lu

The rapid proliferation of realistic deepfakes has raised urgent concerns over their misuse, motivating the use of defensive watermarks in synthetic images for reliable detection and provenance tracking. However, this defense paradigm…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Wei Song , Zhenchang Xing , Liming Zhu , Yulei Sui , Jingling Xue

The intellectual property of deep image-to-image models can be protected by the so-called box-free watermarking. It uses an encoder and a decoder, respectively, to embed into and extract from the model's output images invisible copyright…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Haonan An , Guang Hua , Zhengru Fang , Guowen Xu , Susanto Rahardja , Yuguang Fang

Deep learning-based image watermarking, while robust against conventional distortions, remains vulnerable to advanced adversarial and regeneration attacks. Conventional countermeasures, which jointly optimize the encoder and decoder via a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jiahui Chen , Zehang Deng , Zeyu Zhang , Chaoyang Li , Lianchen Jia , Lifeng Sun

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

Due to the proliferation and widespread use of deep neural networks (DNN), their Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection has become increasingly important. This paper presents a novel model watermarking method for an unsupervised…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Dongdong Lin , Benedetta Tondi , Bin Li , Mauro Barni

Digital watermarking has been widely studied for the protection of intellectual property. Traditional watermarking schemes often design in a "wider" rule, which applies one general embedding mechanism to all images. But this will limit the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Zhaoyang Jia , Han Fang , Zehua Ma , Weiming Zhang

Deep learning-based image watermarking commonly adopts an "Encoder-Noise Layer-Decoder" (END) architecture to improve robustness against random channel distortions, yet it often overlooks intentional manipulations introduced by adversaries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Hanyi Wang , Han Fang , Yupeng Qiu , Shilin Wang , Ee-Chien Chang

The proliferation of AI-generated content and sophisticated video editing tools has made it both important and challenging to moderate digital platforms. Video watermarking addresses these challenges by embedding imperceptible signals into…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Pierre Fernandez , Hady Elsahar , I. Zeki Yalniz , Alexandre Mourachko

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

Robust invisible watermarks are widely used to support copyright protection, content provenance, and accountability by embedding hidden signals designed to survive common post-processing operations. However, diffusion-based image editing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Qian Qi , Jiangyun Tang , Jim Lee , Emily Davis , Finn Carter