TRACE: Structure-Aware Character Encoding for Robust and Generalizable Document Watermarking
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| author | Meng, Jiale Zhang, Jie Hu, Runyi Lu, Zhe-Ming Zhang, Tianwei Li, Yiming |
| author_facet | Meng, Jiale Zhang, Jie Hu, Runyi Lu, Zhe-Ming Zhang, Tianwei Li, Yiming |
| contents | We propose TRACE, a structure-aware framework leveraging diffusion models for localized character encoding to embed data. Unlike existing methods that rely on edge features or pre-defined codebooks, TRACE exploits character structures that provide inherent resistance to noise interference due to their stability and unified representation across diverse characters. Our framework comprises three key components: (1) adaptive diffusion initialization that automatically identifies handle points, target points, and editing regions through specialized algorithms including movement probability estimator (MPE), target point estimation (TPE) and mask drawing model (MDM), (2) guided diffusion encoding for precise movement of selected point, and (3) masked region replacement with a specialized loss function to minimize feature alterations after the diffusion process. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate \name{}'s superior performance over state-of-the-art methods, achieving more than 5 dB improvement in PSNR and 5\% higher extraction accuracy following cross-media transmission. \name{} achieves broad generalizability across multiple languages and fonts, making it particularly suitable for practical document security applications. |
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| spellingShingle | TRACE: Structure-Aware Character Encoding for Robust and Generalizable Document Watermarking Meng, Jiale Zhang, Jie Hu, Runyi Lu, Zhe-Ming Zhang, Tianwei Li, Yiming Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition We propose TRACE, a structure-aware framework leveraging diffusion models for localized character encoding to embed data. Unlike existing methods that rely on edge features or pre-defined codebooks, TRACE exploits character structures that provide inherent resistance to noise interference due to their stability and unified representation across diverse characters. Our framework comprises three key components: (1) adaptive diffusion initialization that automatically identifies handle points, target points, and editing regions through specialized algorithms including movement probability estimator (MPE), target point estimation (TPE) and mask drawing model (MDM), (2) guided diffusion encoding for precise movement of selected point, and (3) masked region replacement with a specialized loss function to minimize feature alterations after the diffusion process. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate \name{}'s superior performance over state-of-the-art methods, achieving more than 5 dB improvement in PSNR and 5\% higher extraction accuracy following cross-media transmission. \name{} achieves broad generalizability across multiple languages and fonts, making it particularly suitable for practical document security applications. |
| title | TRACE: Structure-Aware Character Encoding for Robust and Generalizable Document Watermarking |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12873 |