A Transfer Attack to Image Watermarks

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Autores principales: Hu, Yuepeng, Jiang, Zhengyuan, Guo, Moyang, Gong, Neil Zhenqiang
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Publicado: 2024
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author Hu, Yuepeng
Jiang, Zhengyuan
Guo, Moyang
Gong, Neil Zhenqiang
author_facet Hu, Yuepeng
Jiang, Zhengyuan
Guo, Moyang
Gong, Neil Zhenqiang
contents Watermark has been widely deployed by industry to detect AI-generated images. The robustness of such watermark-based detector against evasion attacks in the white-box and black-box settings is well understood in the literature. However, the robustness in the no-box setting is much less understood. In this work, we propose a new transfer evasion attack to image watermark in the no-box setting. Our transfer attack adds a perturbation to a watermarked image to evade multiple surrogate watermarking models trained by the attacker itself, and the perturbed watermarked image also evades the target watermarking model. Our major contribution is to show that, both theoretically and empirically, watermark-based AI-generated image detector based on existing watermarking methods is not robust to evasion attacks even if the attacker does not have access to the watermarking model nor the detection API. Our code is available at: https://github.com/hifi-hyp/Watermark-Transfer-Attack.
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spellingShingle A Transfer Attack to Image Watermarks
Hu, Yuepeng
Jiang, Zhengyuan
Guo, Moyang
Gong, Neil Zhenqiang
Cryptography and Security
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
Watermark has been widely deployed by industry to detect AI-generated images. The robustness of such watermark-based detector against evasion attacks in the white-box and black-box settings is well understood in the literature. However, the robustness in the no-box setting is much less understood. In this work, we propose a new transfer evasion attack to image watermark in the no-box setting. Our transfer attack adds a perturbation to a watermarked image to evade multiple surrogate watermarking models trained by the attacker itself, and the perturbed watermarked image also evades the target watermarking model. Our major contribution is to show that, both theoretically and empirically, watermark-based AI-generated image detector based on existing watermarking methods is not robust to evasion attacks even if the attacker does not have access to the watermarking model nor the detection API. Our code is available at: https://github.com/hifi-hyp/Watermark-Transfer-Attack.
title A Transfer Attack to Image Watermarks
topic Cryptography and Security
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15365