WATER-GS: Toward Copyright Protection for 3D Gaussian Splatting via Universal Watermarking

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Main Authors: Tan, Yuqi, Liu, Xiang, Xie, Shuzhao, Chen, Bin, Xia, Shu-Tao, Wang, Zhi
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author Tan, Yuqi
Liu, Xiang
Xie, Shuzhao
Chen, Bin
Xia, Shu-Tao
Wang, Zhi
author_facet Tan, Yuqi
Liu, Xiang
Xie, Shuzhao
Chen, Bin
Xia, Shu-Tao
Wang, Zhi
contents 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a pivotal technique for 3D scene representation, providing rapid rendering speeds and high fidelity. As 3DGS gains prominence, safeguarding its intellectual property becomes increasingly crucial since 3DGS could be used to imitate unauthorized scene creations and raise copyright issues. Existing watermarking methods for implicit NeRFs cannot be directly applied to 3DGS due to its explicit representation and real-time rendering process, leaving watermarking for 3DGS largely unexplored. In response, we propose WATER-GS, a novel method designed to protect 3DGS copyrights through a universal watermarking strategy. First, we introduce a pre-trained watermark decoder, treating raw 3DGS generative modules as potential watermark encoders to ensure imperceptibility. Additionally, we implement novel 3D distortion layers to enhance the robustness of the embedded watermark against common real-world distortions of point cloud data. Comprehensive experiments and ablation studies demonstrate that WATER-GS effectively embeds imperceptible and robust watermarks into 3DGS without compromising rendering efficiency and quality. Our experiments indicate that the 3D distortion layers can yield up to a 20% improvement in accuracy rate. Notably, our method is adaptable to different 3DGS variants, including 3DGS compression frameworks and 2D Gaussian splatting.
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spellingShingle WATER-GS: Toward Copyright Protection for 3D Gaussian Splatting via Universal Watermarking
Tan, Yuqi
Liu, Xiang
Xie, Shuzhao
Chen, Bin
Xia, Shu-Tao
Wang, Zhi
Cryptography and Security
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a pivotal technique for 3D scene representation, providing rapid rendering speeds and high fidelity. As 3DGS gains prominence, safeguarding its intellectual property becomes increasingly crucial since 3DGS could be used to imitate unauthorized scene creations and raise copyright issues. Existing watermarking methods for implicit NeRFs cannot be directly applied to 3DGS due to its explicit representation and real-time rendering process, leaving watermarking for 3DGS largely unexplored. In response, we propose WATER-GS, a novel method designed to protect 3DGS copyrights through a universal watermarking strategy. First, we introduce a pre-trained watermark decoder, treating raw 3DGS generative modules as potential watermark encoders to ensure imperceptibility. Additionally, we implement novel 3D distortion layers to enhance the robustness of the embedded watermark against common real-world distortions of point cloud data. Comprehensive experiments and ablation studies demonstrate that WATER-GS effectively embeds imperceptible and robust watermarks into 3DGS without compromising rendering efficiency and quality. Our experiments indicate that the 3D distortion layers can yield up to a 20% improvement in accuracy rate. Notably, our method is adaptable to different 3DGS variants, including 3DGS compression frameworks and 2D Gaussian splatting.
title WATER-GS: Toward Copyright Protection for 3D Gaussian Splatting via Universal Watermarking
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05695