CoreMark: Toward Robust and Universal Text Watermarking Technique

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Autori principali: Meng, Jiale, Li, Yiming, Lu, Zheming, He, Zewei, Luo, Hao, Zhang, Tianwei
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author Meng, Jiale
Li, Yiming
Lu, Zheming
He, Zewei
Luo, Hao
Zhang, Tianwei
author_facet Meng, Jiale
Li, Yiming
Lu, Zheming
He, Zewei
Luo, Hao
Zhang, Tianwei
contents Text watermarking schemes have gained considerable attention in recent years, yet still face critical challenges in achieving simultaneous robustness, generalizability, and imperceptibility. This paper introduces a new embedding paradigm,termed CORE, which comprises several consecutively aligned black pixel segments. Its key innovation lies in its inherent noise resistance during transmission and broad applicability across languages and fonts. Based on the CORE, we present a text watermarking framework named CoreMark. Specifically, CoreMark first dynamically extracts COREs from characters. Then, the characters with stronger robustness are selected according to the lengths of COREs. By modifying the thickness of the CORE, the hidden data is embedded into the selected characters without causing significant visual distortions. Moreover, a general plug-and-play embedding strength modulator is proposed, which can adaptively enhance the robustness for small font sizes by adjusting the embedding strength according to the font size. Experimental evaluation indicates that CoreMark demonstrates outstanding generalizability across multiple languages and fonts. Compared to existing methods, CoreMark achieves significant improvements in resisting screenshot, print-scan, and print camera attacks, while maintaining satisfactory imperceptibility.
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spellingShingle CoreMark: Toward Robust and Universal Text Watermarking Technique
Meng, Jiale
Li, Yiming
Lu, Zheming
He, Zewei
Luo, Hao
Zhang, Tianwei
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Cryptography and Security
Multimedia
Text watermarking schemes have gained considerable attention in recent years, yet still face critical challenges in achieving simultaneous robustness, generalizability, and imperceptibility. This paper introduces a new embedding paradigm,termed CORE, which comprises several consecutively aligned black pixel segments. Its key innovation lies in its inherent noise resistance during transmission and broad applicability across languages and fonts. Based on the CORE, we present a text watermarking framework named CoreMark. Specifically, CoreMark first dynamically extracts COREs from characters. Then, the characters with stronger robustness are selected according to the lengths of COREs. By modifying the thickness of the CORE, the hidden data is embedded into the selected characters without causing significant visual distortions. Moreover, a general plug-and-play embedding strength modulator is proposed, which can adaptively enhance the robustness for small font sizes by adjusting the embedding strength according to the font size. Experimental evaluation indicates that CoreMark demonstrates outstanding generalizability across multiple languages and fonts. Compared to existing methods, CoreMark achieves significant improvements in resisting screenshot, print-scan, and print camera attacks, while maintaining satisfactory imperceptibility.
title CoreMark: Toward Robust and Universal Text Watermarking Technique
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Cryptography and Security
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23066