MarkCleaner: High-Fidelity Watermark Removal via Imperceptible Micro-Geometric Perturbation
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| author | Kong, Xiaoxi Yuan, Jieyu Chen, Pengdi Zhang, Yuanlin Li, Chongyi Li, Bin |
| author_facet | Kong, Xiaoxi Yuan, Jieyu Chen, Pengdi Zhang, Yuanlin Li, Chongyi Li, Bin |
| contents | Semantic watermarks exhibit strong robustness against conventional image-space attacks. In this work, we show that such robustness does not survive under micro-geometric perturbations: spatial displacements can remove watermarks by breaking the phase alignment. Motivated by this observation, we introduce MarkCleaner, a watermark removal framework that avoids semantic drift caused by regeneration-based watermark removal. Specifically, MarkCleaner is trained with micro-geometry-perturbed supervision, which encourages the model to separate semantic content from strict spatial alignment and enables robust reconstruction under subtle geometric displacements. The framework adopts a mask-guided encoder that learns explicit spatial representations and a 2D Gaussian Splatting-based decoder that explicitly parameterizes geometric perturbations while preserving semantic content. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MarkCleaner achieves superior performance in both watermark removal effectiveness and visual fidelity, while enabling efficient real-time inference. Our code will be made available upon acceptance. |
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| spellingShingle | MarkCleaner: High-Fidelity Watermark Removal via Imperceptible Micro-Geometric Perturbation Kong, Xiaoxi Yuan, Jieyu Chen, Pengdi Zhang, Yuanlin Li, Chongyi Li, Bin Image and Video Processing Artificial Intelligence Cryptography and Security Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Semantic watermarks exhibit strong robustness against conventional image-space attacks. In this work, we show that such robustness does not survive under micro-geometric perturbations: spatial displacements can remove watermarks by breaking the phase alignment. Motivated by this observation, we introduce MarkCleaner, a watermark removal framework that avoids semantic drift caused by regeneration-based watermark removal. Specifically, MarkCleaner is trained with micro-geometry-perturbed supervision, which encourages the model to separate semantic content from strict spatial alignment and enables robust reconstruction under subtle geometric displacements. The framework adopts a mask-guided encoder that learns explicit spatial representations and a 2D Gaussian Splatting-based decoder that explicitly parameterizes geometric perturbations while preserving semantic content. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MarkCleaner achieves superior performance in both watermark removal effectiveness and visual fidelity, while enabling efficient real-time inference. Our code will be made available upon acceptance. |
| title | MarkCleaner: High-Fidelity Watermark Removal via Imperceptible Micro-Geometric Perturbation |
| topic | Image and Video Processing Artificial Intelligence Cryptography and Security Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01513 |